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Van mars2000you

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03-02-2022, 13:43

sdsnatcher73 wrote:

I added Sony XD series and updated the Panasonic but the rendering seems a bit off (it shows 2 headings then 2 tables). Can't figure out exactly where I made the mistake. Could someone help?

Fixed

Van mars2000you

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03-02-2022, 14:38

PUT KANJI and PUT HAN
These instructions are similar, but there's a problem with the last parameter (Mode)

According the CPC-400 manual for PUT HAN:
0 16×16 normal size
1 8x16 even rows
2 8x16 odd rows

According https://www.msxcomputermagazine.nl/mccw/91/KANJI-stuff/en.html for PUT KANJI:

0 Complete KANJI character
1 Print even lines only
2 Print odd lines only

According the Japanese site https://github.com/fu-sen/MSX-BASIC/blob/master/PUT%20KANJI.txt for PUT KANJI:

0 16x16 dots
1 Odd lines only 16x8 dots
2 Even lines only 16x8 dots

What's correct???

Van gdx

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03-02-2022, 14:49

sdsnatcher73, I notice that you were confused by the explanations which were greatly modified. So I put them back in the same spirit as when I created them.

Van mars2000you

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03-02-2022, 17:25

"VG8000 machines only have caps and code lock not graph lock"

It's not what I see in openMSX configs (VG-8000, VG-8010 and VG-8010F) and I know it is the same in blueMSX:

(code_kana_locks)true(/code_kana_locks)
(graph_locks)true(/graph_locks)

Van Manuel

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03-02-2022, 17:39

These are indeed the only MSX machines with locking graph key.

Van Manuel

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03-02-2022, 17:41

sdsnatcher73 wrote:

So I started with HB-F1XDmk2. I created a basic program that shows all the resulting characters. Here is the file.

It seems the following combinations give different characters but there is no exact color matching right now:
key, shift+key, kana+key, kana+shift+key, kana+cap+key, kana+cap+shift+key, graph+key

So on this machine:L
kana+key gives the hiragana characters
kana+shift+key gives the hiragana characters with some variations (smaller versions)
kana+cap+key gives the katakana characters
kana+cap+shift+key giver the katakana characters with some variations (smaller versions)

Some questions:
1. These differentiations will need new colors, right? Which should I use?
2. How do I easily get the corresponding UNICODE characters from this BAS file to use them in the wiki?

I think you only need the unicodemap files that come with openMSX to generate the full table. I'm plan to push a large update for these tonight.

Van Manuel

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03-02-2022, 23:19

Pushed, please check these files to generate a lot of keyboard matrices for the Wiki: https://github.com/openMSX/openMSX/tree/master/share/unicode...

I used the Unicode mappings made by Rebecca Bettencourt in combination with a Tcl script that hits all locations in the keyboard matrix (for row 6 and lower) and then check which characters are produced in VRAM.

Van gdx

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04-02-2022, 10:47

The remark about the RTC of SET SYSTEM is very strange because the RTC is divided in four blocks of 12 registers of 4 bits. In addition why would it be any different on BlueMSX?

The printer data is stored in the register 9 of the block 2. What is #23 or #24?

Van mars2000you

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04-02-2022, 13:56

It is a little different in blueMSX because this emulator stores an extra setting in #1A, that probably checks if the computer is normally working. This byte has always the 0D value when all is Ok.

Another bueMSX extra setting is in #27, but only for Russian Yamaha computers with network. It probably checks if the MSX-Network is correctly working. This additionnal byte has always the 0D value when all is Ok.

I ignore why it has been implemented like that. Maybe just to have a better emulation of some machines, but these extra settings don't correspond to a register in the RTC chip.

Van gdx

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04-02-2022, 16:34

Wiki page for the Ricoh RP-5C01 chip is unnecessarily complicated. I am redoing it entirely.