Just a quick follow up, and a question for the list: The original character ROM contains two sets of capital letters, and on set of lower case. Does anyone know why there are two sets of cap letters? Presently I have replaced the lowercase letter set with the new Japanese fonts. Hopefully this was the correct thing to do. A poke 59468,14 should activate them. However you do lose the lowercase characters of course. If you believe I have made a mistake, please let me know. I have uploaded to my iDisk server a binary listing of both the original ROM and the new Japanese version so you can visually see the difference between the two (0's and 1's have been replaced with # and _ to increase the visual contrast) Thanks On Nov 24, 2009, at 5:18 PM, Philip Lord wrote: > Hopefully Ethan can extract something from my Japanese character > ROM, but in the mean time I had a few spare hours and decided to > make one of my own. > > I haven't tested it as I don't have anything to test it on, but I'm > 95% sure it will work. If it does, then I'm guessing it would be > very similar, if not identical to the original J ROM that Ethan has. > > I followed Ethan's advice and took the Japanese character set from > the VIC-1001 character ROM dump, and spliced it into the PET > character ROM for BASIC 2 & 4 (characters-2.901447-10.bin). I know > that the BASIC 1 ROM had the lower and uppercase switched (compared > to this version), but I'm not exactly sure what this means from a > functionality point of view. I have not compared the two on a real > (or virtual) machine. Regardless, I can splice the J characters into > either version now that I know what to do. > > The process was actually a lot trickier than I fist thought. After > splicing the new J characters in by replacing the PET's lowercase > fonts and duplicate symbols, I then discovered I had to re-adjust > some individual characters that I had inadvertently changed > (0,1,2,3,=,+,-,.,/,(up arrow)). These characters relate to keys with > no Japanese character assigned to them, and in my initial broad > stroke cut and pasting, I had mistakenly changed them all to their > equivalent graphic symbol... > > Anyway...would anyone like to test it out for me and give me feedback. > You can download the .bin file from my idisk server under the 'CBM > PET' folder here: > > http://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/FileSharing.woa/wa/default?user=lord_philip&fpath=ZX81%20Analog%20Port%20jpg%27s&templatefn=FileSharing6.html > > Here you can also find a photo of my Japanese keyboard for reference. > > Cheers > Philip > > > On Nov 24, 2009, at 7:37 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:27 PM, M H Stein <dm561@torfree.net> wrote: >>> So the question is, why doesn't that CG ROM work? >> >> I don't know yet. I've been out of town the past two weekends, so my >> evening playtime has been somewhat constrained. It should be a >> little >> better after this weekend. >> >> So far, I have yet to power on that adapter. I wanted to check out >> the mainboard first, and it seems to be happy with a real 6540 (of >> course I can try Jim Brain's 6540 adapter, too. ;-) >> >>> Don't know how to post attachments here, so I'll send you pics off- >>> list; >>> 'good' camera's broken and this one doesn't take very good close- >>> ups, >>> but you'll get the idea. If/when I can take better pics I'll send >>> them as >>> well if you want. >> >> Do you have a flatbed scanner? Are you willing to de-mount the >> keyboard and scan it? >> >> I'll be happy to receive anything legible, though. >> >> Thanks, >> >> -ethan >> >> Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list > > > Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2009-11-25 08:30:16
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