ScuzzBlog: Diaries September 2025 Entry 13th September 2025: Post : Project Walker - Plus mystery keyboard. Project Walker - Plus mystery keyboard. There was a discussion over on one of the Amiga forums about the failed 'Project Walker' from CeBIT '96 and I thought I would show the article from CUAmiga which features the beast. This was an Amiga Technologies project using a 60EC030 complete with hard drive, floppy and CD. It was being promoted as a low end model and was to be driven by OS3.2. Personally by this stage of the Amiga history line I had started to become a little disillusioned given the lack of new product for the Amiga. A lot of words but with nothing to show for it. In truth this was to be the pattern of activity for the Amiga over the coming years, so projects like The Walker are consigned to the Amiga 'what if' drawer along so many false hopes. I do have a CDTV keyboard that would be ideally suited to this Walker computer. It is a very strange beast given that unlike the normal black keys for the CDTV keyboard it has white or ivory keys. The keyboard is for the CDTV as it has one pin missing from the connector. The ivory keys do not appear as a late replacement as the silk sheen for the keys is the same as the keyboard itself. I have never seen a CDTV keyboard with white keys. Probably a bodge by Commodore due to shortages of black keyboards. Who knows? One last comment... 'The Walker' was wrong on so many levels. None more so than the restrictive shape that limited internals and usage of a flat surface to place stuff on. It just doesn't sit well on the desk. Looks more like an old radio. Kinda reflects a company out of touch. The cheaper option would be an A1200 docking station not unlike the Interface 1 for the Spectrum. Whacky I know but the Amiga 1200 needed more drive capacity and CD functionality plus maybe even ZIP plus graphics and modem. A tray at the back that plugged in would also serve to sit the monitor. They would have been better approaching 'Checkmate' for a solution. Project Walker - Plus mystery keyboard.

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