Re: Pro-DOS 8-bit charset?

2014-06-11 Thread Chris Pile
[I already sent this reply to the list - but it didn't appear. So sent again] Hi Marcos, On 08/06/2014 14:57, Marcos Cruz wrote: Well, I think there's still an option to get some non-English letters: overwrite the definition of some ASCII chars not used in the texts of the program. I suppose

Re: Pro-DOS 8-bit charset?

2014-06-11 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2014-06-09 15:22, Chris Pile escribió / skribis / wrote : > Hope that info gives you something to experiment with? Indeed. Thank you so much for all the needed details. It's not trivial, as you said. I would rather that poor 7th bit untouched and some X*8 free bytes at the end of the char

Re: Pro-DOS 8-bit charset?

2014-06-11 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2014-06-10 21:58, Marcos Cruz escribió / skribis / wrote : > poor 7th bit 8th bit. But 7th too :) -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net

Re: Pro-DOS 8-bit charset?

2014-06-10 Thread Chris Pile
Hi Marcos, On 08/06/2014 14:57, Marcos Cruz wrote: Well, I think there's still an option to get some non-English letters: overwrite the definition of some ASCII chars not used in the texts of the program. I suppose Pro-DOS uses its own charset, not the SAM's charset in ROM. Could it be modified

Re: Pro-DOS 8-bit charset?

2014-06-09 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2014-06-02 17:00, Chris Pile escribió / skribis / wrote : > Pro-DOS strips BIT-7 prior to calculating the character data pointer. Well, I think there's still an option to get some non-English letters: overwrite the definition of some ASCII chars not used in the texts of the program. I s

Re: Pro-DOS 8-bit charset?

2014-06-02 Thread Chris Pile
Hi Marcos, On 01/06/2014 21:45, Marcos Cruz wrote: [For Chris Pile] I see chars 128-255 are printed like chars 0-127; it seems bit 7 is reset before printing on the screen. AFAIK CP/M used 7-bit ASCII, and only certain versions of CP/M 3 (e.g. the one by Amstrad) used a kind of CP/M standard 8

Pro-DOS 8-bit charset?

2014-06-01 Thread Marcos Cruz
[For Chris Pile] I see chars 128-255 are printed like chars 0-127; it seems bit 7 is reset before printing on the screen. AFAIK CP/M used 7-bit ASCII, and only certain versions of CP/M 3 (e.g. the one by Amstrad) used a kind of CP/M standard 8-bit charset. Is there any way to configure or hack