Hi, All,
This has all been discussed over on the cbm-hackers list over the past
several months, but I've been fixing a couple of Static PET boards for
someone in Japan. The only thing that appears to be unique to one of
the boards is a 2316B in a Commodore-built 6540 adapter board (P/N
320076) and the 901447-12 ROM that's in it. There is no corresponding
ROM image on
Zimmers.net (where the old funet archive lives), and this
ROM reads all zeros.
I have a photo of the keyboard layout for a Japanese chicklet PET, and
it doesn't happen to match the map of the Japanese C-64. One
interesting feature is a few Kanji characters mixed in with the
Katana, specifically, "4" maps to the Kanji for "year", "5"
has
"month", and "6" has "day" - obviously for rendering dates
easily.
There looks to be 51 Japanese glyphs total (all the Katakana
characters, the three Kanji, and a couple of other characters needed
to write sentences in Japanese). Given that the editor ROM is
identical to a standard European/US BASIC 1.0 PET, it seems likely
that the character drawn on the key would be the replacement in
"upper/lower case mode" for that particular symbol.
It seems likely I could reproduce the general contents of the ROM
following the keyboard map, but it would be great it someone out there
happened to have the real thing. I already know that nobody on the
cbm-hackers list has come forward with a copy, but I'm pretty sure
there are PET owners on this list who are not on cbm-hackers.
If anyone happens to have this ROM or ROM image, please share it with
the great repository at
Zimmers.net.
Thank you,
-ethan