On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:13:55AM +0100, Sean Young wrote:

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> In screen 0 the bits of register 14 are now displayed; no matter what keys I
> pressed, nothing changed. :( So still I have no clue what it is.


New information:

According to the Red Book on hardwareinfo.msx2.com (which is in .pdf so I
had to type it again (no cut & paste):


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Register 14

       7     6     5     4     3     2     1     0
    +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
    | Cas | Kbd | Joy | Joy | Joy | Joy | Joy | Joy | 
    |Input|Mode |Trg.B|Trg.A|Right|Keft |Back | Fwd |
    +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+

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    The Keyboard Mode bit is unused on UK machines. On Japanese
machines it is tied to a jumper to determine the
keyboard's character set.


So this is probably a jumper which is for what Maarten said:

    "0" for syllable layout; "1" for JIS layout


Sean


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