Re: Brazilian MSX Maling list (In Portuguese)

[Pablo Vasques Bravo-Villalba]

Manuel Bilderbeek wrote:
> > Jesus Rice, this is not true! Character tables
> > aren't part of MSX standard, as you can see in
> > any Japanese MSX ROM. Some games, like Payload,
> > even use extended characters which don't look
> > the same in every MSX. You can find 10 different
> > character tables in different MSX models and
> > this doesn't mean they're incompatible.
> They ARE standard. Please check the MSX Technical Handbook. For every

I apologize if I'm misinformed, but if you develop
a software which is dependant on the character table
then you should redefine it unless you only want to
run it on a particular country. I don't have a prin-
ted version of MSX Technical Handbook and couldn't
find quickly a copy to check it out, but I doubt
such a standard was defined for Brazil, for example.
Lucky for us BASIC-programmers that later Gradiente
and Sharp agreeded to use a more similar character
table (but, anyway, they never got the same).

> defined country-code it has a specific standard character set (in ROM). This
> is indeed changeable, but it is in the MSX standard.

If you say so, I'll believe it, but if some software
doesn't take in account such differences then it is
*more* incompatible than if they weren't standardized.
In a practical way, I'd say the software isn't com-
patible with the user, but it's still compatible with
MSX. :)

Btw, where can I find an online version of MTH? In
our beloved Ultimate MSX FAQ I could only find a
reference to M2TH...

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