Laurens,
> 2. Please check out the subroutine in the attached .ASC-file... It
> initializes some kind of device but I really have NO idea which one.
> If somebody could explain me I'd be grateful.
You'll verify...
> 3. About the Kanji-ROM, I'd like to have more info about it, because
> my I can't find any in my current documentation. (...)
Kanji ROM? Is better call it from "JIS Driver" because it implements a
text-mode emulation using JIS2 character set, not ASCII. You have 3
modes, KANJI = 256x212 w/ 16x16 chars; KANJI0 = 256x212 w/ 8x16 chars;
KANJI1 = 256x424 w/ 16x16 chars and KANJI2 = 512x424 w/ 16x16 chars.
Yes, the last 2 modes uses interlaced mode. Plus the text mode
emulation you've the Kanji input mode, i.e., you press [Ctrl]+[Space]
and type the text in Romanji (automatically it is translated to
Hiragana or Katagana) on screeen bottom. After type the word you can
press [Space] to do a query in KANJI Database to found a ideogram
relative of the typed word.
Ah! The Kanji Database is a ~256Kb MegaROM w/ 16x16 bitmap fonts. In
GT machines you have another JIS2 Font w/ 12x12 fonts large used by
MSX-View (to ST machines you can use a cartridge provided with View).
You found the 32Kb of "driver" only the "program".
> - Illusion City only supports MSX-MIDI when the computer has more than
> 256k RAM. It supports both internal and external MSX-MIDI...
Yes! MSX-MIDI a standard specified in FS A1GT and the Bit2 MIDI
cartridge the hardware used to specify MSX-MIDI... :)
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