Mega65 Keyboard prototypes have been manufactured

A fake floppy drive. That's sort of like cars with an "air scoop" on the hood that goes nowhere...heh

They should consider a different place for the floppy drive or it would create serious ergonomic issues when operating the arrow keys. Moving it up so that it could interfere with less used keys (help, inst/del, restore) might be a solution. Or just copy the Amigas and point it sideways.

MEGA65 is one of the coolest retro projects I know of right now, and it's really exciting to see this huge leap toward becoming reality (where "reality" means a chunk of hardware I can put my hands on...it's had seemingly functional source code for years).

Obsessive about the spacebar size, but not about the keycap profile?

So the keycaps are 3D printed too? Or are they something like dye-sublimated PBT? Are they intending to use "mechanical" (e.g. Cherry MX compatible) key switches, or something truly retro but unpleasant like foam-and-foil?

What about the rest of the mega65? I see that designs can be changed but is there a board to be had that works out of the box?<p>Love to see this. I have a mist fpga emu for the c64 St Amiga etc, but this looks pretty nice too!

Can you fix the kerning on the key fonts? The kerning and overall font choice is poor mainly because of the space constraint. Try Univers Next Condensed with 16 degree italics like the old Mac keyboard! If you want something normal then you can try Swiss721 or DIN in their condensed formats. Geometric sans (with Futura-like &quot;O&quot;) such as the one chosen __does not__ work for keycaps.<p>Looks like the kerning is manually adjusted by someone who just wanted to cram the letters in the keycap space. For example, &quot;CAPS LOCK&quot; - P and S are merged whereas on the &quot;TAB&quot; key, T, A and B are nicely spaced.<p>This would drive me nuts and would never able to &quot;unsee&quot; the kerning issues.

Why don’t these retro remake computers use actual 8 bit CPUs?<p>8bit CPUs are still available aren’t they?<p>I don’t get it. If it doesn’t have an 8bit cpu then how is it anything else but a modern machine?

I still prefer inexpensive sponge based keyboards.<p>Everything else just hurts my wrists. Too much tactile feedback.