Tried the poke on openMSX running FS-4500 (JIS at default) and FS-5500F2 (50on). The poke works fine, though I can't find the applicable hardware switch anywhere.
How is that address location initialised? I just wonder. It seems the BIOS on machines with either JIS op 50on can be identical (e.g. Sanyo PHC-23 vs PHC-23J). So it must be initialised some other way (possibly the BIOS detects it somehow?).
Just repeating here: all the keyboard matrices in the first 5 rows, including the characters they produce with key combinations, can be derived from these files: https://github.com/openMSX/openMSX/tree/master/share/unicode...
It would be nice if the missing International matrix was added at least. Also note that there is no need to add png files for some symbols. All symbols have a unicode mapping, see https://www.kreativekorp.com/charset/encoding/ under Legacy Computing - MSX. (The combination of keymatrix and character set is in these unicode map files. You can see in the MSX machine XML file which machine has which keymatrix and character set.)
The matrix you made is the same as the Panasonic computers ones so I am merging the two.
That’s fine, I did not merge it because of the 2 special Panasonic word processor keys. The reference to A1FX should be removed as well now (it’s identical to the Sony machines). I will try the PHC-35J and PHC-70FD. I suspect these to be identical to the existing machines as well.
Why did you remove the Japanese matrix for National CF-3000 ? It has been verified. There is no Hiragana on the keys. Katakana are displayed without pressing the Shift key
CF-3000 is 50on, with just kana key it displays hiragana characters and with kana+caps it displays katakana. It behaves identical to e.g. the FS-A1 which has hiragana printed on the keys. FS-5000F2 has once again katakana on the keys (in JIS layout). Also there were some errors in the previous table for CF-3000 (e.g. the E key combined with KANA, DEL was shown as SUP). Tested on real hardware.
Shift is not the modifier between hiragana and katakana, caps lock is.
