Re: CBM International CHAROMs

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 05:05:46 +0200
Message-ID: <etPan.5416578a.79e2a9e3.10222@szaman.lan>
 

On 2014-09-14 at 23:16:07, Uffe Jakobsen (uffe@uffe.org) wrote:

> >> Thank you, Uffe. If that's the one as
> >>
> >> http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/firmware/computers/c64/characters.901225-01-DK.bin  
> >>
> >>
> >> then it's probably as "official" as it could ever get. I only wonder
> >> what is with the Ø character being only once there (capital in the
> >> lowercase set). But I don't know those languages enough (I only
> >> understand a bit due to all them being German family) to judge if this
> >> is a language specific peculiarity or there were other reasons for not
> >> having both upper and lowercase variants like with Æ and Å.
> >>
> >
> > I suspect that they had problems doing a proper lowercase "ø" 8x8 makes
> > it quite difficult. I'll have to look at it in VICE later
> >
>  
> Just checked the rom - it's been a long time since I've used a C64 with
> DK rom in.
>  
> Both upper- and lower-case "ø" and "Ø" are in the rom.
>  
> Try this in VICE
>  
> x64 -chargen DK-romname
>  
> ÆØÅ is mapped to [£]
>  
> or run this basic program:
>  
> 10 for i=0 to 255
> 20 poke 1024+i,i
> 30 next

I should have done so in the first place, indeed. Yes, it seems to be there, but... when I tried to get it from the keyboard I only found the one, which shows in the lowercase charset as uppercase one.

But since now I don't seem to be able to get the pound sign either - that explains and means I need to debug my keyboard settings.

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