As part of a larger project, technologist 'Coronax' has demonstrated a method of allowing an Arduino to communicate with a Commodore 64 computer using the SPI bus. The Arduino needs to be set to slave SPI mode however this is easily accomplished. This allows the Arduino to enter text as a keyboard for the C64, and also allow a PC via the serial line to also act as a terminal for the classic computer. If you have the hardware and the time, the source code for the C64 and Arduino has been provided to try yourself.
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