Re: PET keyboards and related ROM sets

I have keyboard pictures and matrix info on my editor rom project page:
http://www.6502.org/users/sjgray/projects/editrom/index.html

Steve


> On May 11, 2020, at 6:09 PM, groepaz_at_gmx.net wrote:
> 
> Hy!
> 
> In the past couple days i have played around with fixing some things in VICE
> that are related to the PET keyboard... in particular i tried to create a
> somewhat working keymap :)
> 
> anyway, it's still a bit confusing to me, so please read the following and
> correct whats wrong:
> 
> - there are basically two fundamentally different PET keyboards:
> 1) the "graphics" keyboard, which is used on the "small" models, up to 4032
> 2) the "business" keyboard, which is used on the "big" models, 8032 and up
> (this refers to the keyboard matrix, "graphics" keyboard includes the very
> first, top one on this picture: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SPbnwFP9n5o/
> XlI9s0Xoo5I/AAAAAAAATw4/XfTKMTKa_8s2inLFD3EFaefeWjvcVznSwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/
> Keyboards.JPG )
> 
> now, the "business" keyboard exists in several localized versions. for those
> you will need "editor" ROMs that match the respective keyboard variant.
> 
> now the confusion (and my questions) begins :)
> - what about charsets? will you need other chargen ROM too? (my guess is yes,
> of course)
> - where can i find detail info on the matrix values of the localized keys? all
> i found so far is http://www.6502.org/users/andre/petindex/keyboards.html
> - where can i find the actual ROMs? i found "some" on zimmers.net: http://
> www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/firmware/computers/pet/index.html but this
> does not look complete, or the info on what is what is missing. i would
> atleast like to see the right ROMs for the "US", german and japanese keyboards
> ... but anything else will be fine of course
> 
> please fill in the gaps :)
> 
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