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Blingboard64 – New Keyboard for the Commodore 64
If you’re looking to replace your damaged C64 keyboard, check out this campaign:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/keyboard-for-your-commodore-computer#/
The campaign, which initially ended on May 31, 2024, has been reopened due to high demand from Commodore fans worldwide.
Besides the Blingboard64 keyboard replacement, explore the BlingBox on the same page—it’s a standalone keyboard compatible with SX-64, C128D, Amiga, PC, MiSTer, BMC64, and more!
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Re: Blingboard64 – New Keyboard for the Commodore 64
A couple of months back, Jim Drew offered a pre-order of 60 additional Blingboard64 units to help manage rising printing costs. Now in July 2025, there’s another chance to pre-order a Blingboard64.
The upcoming Commodore 64 Ultimate (https://www.commodore.net) will utilize the foundational Blingboard technology created by Jim. However, he refers to the keyboard in the C64 Ultimate as “Blingboard64 Lite Edition,” meaning it’s not as advanced as the keyboard being offered through this crowdfunding campaign.
The Lite Edition is essentially a very simplified version of the campaign keyboard. It lacks most advanced features. You can think of it as just a nice keyboard with LEDs that connects to Gideon’s U64 board. The U64 itself provides the features.The Blingboard64 available in this campaign, however, includes support for USB and Bluetooth BLE, a dual-core CPU, an expansion port, wireless programming capability, macro recording and playback, 2MB of RAM fully accessible from the C64 side, the ability to delegate computations to the keyboard’s CPU, and much more!
Kit:
https://www.cbmstuff.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=59_87&product_id=163
Fully assembled:
https://www.cbmstuff.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=59_87&product_id=164
Campaign page:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/keyboard-for-your-commodore-computer#/
Original article by www.commodore.ca
