Commodore Plus 4 / RPI4 build ready

[mth75]

Around christmas I started thinking about building my RPI4 in a Commodore Plus 4 case. Almost 3 months later i'm happy to close this project ... which also made me learn 3d printing.

The base is of course the Rpi4, 4Gb. The home directory resides on a 1TB Samsung SSD. The RetroPie Buster weekly build resides on a 32GB Samsung EVO SD cart. I've placed a Pimoroni Blinkt above the Plus 4 color logo. Added 3 leds for power, drive activity (including SSD) and a yellow one for the Keyrah keyboard. And finally, i'm not using heatsinks instead i'm using a Pimoroni Fanshim.

I'm very happy with the end result!

[mth75]

@jamrom2

@mth75

Hi. I don't mean to hijack the thread, but I really like your Plus 4 case idea. I'd love to know more about how you did it and what's running in it. I had been wanting to build another RetroPie unit (I have 3...a Sears Intellivision, an Intellivision Flashback, and a RetroFlag Megacase) but one with a bulit in keyboard. The plus 4 is perfect. Was going to use an old C64, but felt it wasn't as good.

Do you have a write-up or any specs on how it all came together, including the keyboard interface you'd be willing to share?

Thanks!

I read your question on the Which games ... with Wine/Box86 thread, let's start with this older topic.

Most importantly, I'm using the Keyrah (C= keyboard) interface (unavailable for a quite a while now) ...

The basics look like this: