Hey all!

I just finished building my FlexROM and patching the system rom for my
keyboard layout of choice (colemak). I'm super excited about it because
it will make my m100 much more usable for me.

Here are the relevant lines of the rom that were patched if anyone is
interested:

00007BF0   AA 7A 78 63  76 62 6B 6D  69 61 72 73  74 64 68 6E  .zxcvbkmiarstdhn
00007C00   65 71 77 66  70 67 6A 6C  75 79 3B 5B  6F 27 2C 2E  eqwfpgjluy;[o',.
00007C10   2F 31 32 33  34 35 36 37  38 39 30 2D  3D 5A 58 43  /1234567890-=ZXC
00007C20   56 42 4B 4D  49 41 52 53  54 44 48 4E  45 51 57 46  VBKMIARSTDHNEQWF
00007C30   50 47 4A 4C  55 59 3A 5D  4F 22 3C 3E  3F 21 40 23  PGJLUY:]O"<>?!@#
...
00007CF0   00 00 00 D4  D2 D3 A6 A7  A8 6D 30 6E  31 65 32 69  .........m0n1e2i
00007D00   33 6C 34 75  35 79 36 01  06 14 02 20  7F 09 1B 8B  3l4u5y6.... ....

The last two lines makes the number pad work correctly (an extremely
easy fix!)

There is just one small bug with my patch, and that is caps lock not
working correctly. When caps lock is enabled, `o' remains lowercase and
`;' types a `:'. I presume this is due to the way caps lock works with
the keyboard matrix. The letter `o' has been moved out of the letter
rows of the keyboard matrix, and is now in one of the symbol
rows. The opposite is true of the semi-colon, now being part of the
letter matrix replacing `p'.


Does anyone know if caps lock is done in software, or if it's modifying
which characters are being selected by pulling a bit high or something?

This is a really small issue, but I would like to get it working
correctly. I'll dive into the schematic when I have some time and see if
I can find a hint about how caps lock works. If not I'll start messing
around with Virtual-T and see what I can find there.

If I dig anything interesting up, I'll update this thread with what I
learn.

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