EclaireXL

You've also seen I had an XEGS keyboard connector on the old board?
http://www.64kib.com/eclairexl.html

We have some GPIO pins, once I have some stable cores I'll start assigning them. For now I'm using them for debugging signals.

e.g. we could have the pokey keyboard lines.

yes i did.. but i was hoping for a real XL keyboard.. not the mushy XE ones :)

I mean I have the pokey signals and can break them out. To use an XL one we'd need a board with a suitable socket and some 4051s. I think its pretty easy to make and I can support via the pokey signals on GPIO. I'd rather not use so many GPIOs for this though so perhaps we can come up with a design that uses only one or two - perhaps there is an i2c to parallel converter we can use to talk to the keyboard...

One from back in the day...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB3ywcwsoiM

On pokeymax I'm using an i2c to parallel converter for keyboard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qKhNJal3V8