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dvik
msx master
Posts: 1343 |  Posted: October 11 2007, 05:39 |
white_cat who implemented Halnote in blueMSX believes that the only built in software is the kanji conversion program (call kanji). To run the halnote software like the word processor, the halnote system disk is required (just as Jipe said earlier)
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manuel
msx guru
Posts: 3545 | Posted: October 11 2007, 10:01 |
the call kanji stuff is in the kanji basic ROM, though... So, you should be able to run the normal Halnote software on this machine, without using the separate Halnote ROM? I'll try that... (I thought I had already tried that and that it didn't work... but I'll try it again.)
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nikodr
msx addict
Posts: 491 | Posted: October 12 2007, 09:46 |
Any news regarding that 1mbyte rom?
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manuel
msx guru
Posts: 3545 | Posted: October 12 2007, 18:27 |
The Halnote system disk does not work in the HB-F1XDJ, without the halnote ROM. (It says: ROM not found!)
Some more info:
F1XDJ ROM: 8kB block 008 - 063 are all 0xFF
Halnote ROM: 8kB block 032 - 063 are all 0xFF
There are no common 8kB blocks between the Halnote and F1XDJ ROM... (except for those 0xFF blocks)...
When removing the ROM from the HB-F1XDJ, everything works fine, it seems. Entering kanji etc. works fine, as expected (kanjiROM is not in it).
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Jipe
msx freak
Posts: 205 | Posted: October 12 2007, 19:45 |
can suppose is a preview or a clone of halnote ?
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manuel
msx guru
Posts: 3545 | Posted: October 12 2007, 20:37 |
But how to use it then? Does someone have that word processor Bunsho Sakuzaemon?
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Jipe
msx freak
Posts: 205 | Posted: October 12 2007, 21:36 |
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manuel
msx guru
Posts: 3545 | Posted: October 12 2007, 22:14 |
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nikodr
msx addict
Posts: 491 | Posted: October 13 2007, 02:57 |
So this one mbyte rom is needed for some software?Very big rom!What's in it anyway?Data,fonts,?
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manuel
msx guru
Posts: 3545 | Posted: October 13 2007, 12:10 |
nikodr: that is exactly the question.... It probably contains some MSX-JE functionality. But it's still not completey clear to me what the difference is with the functionality in kanjibasic+kanjifontrom.
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cax
msx master
Posts: 1028 | Posted: October 13 2007, 12:51 |
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F1XDJ ROM: 8kB block 008 - 063 are all 0xFF
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That means that only 8*8=64K out of first 64*8=512K are used ?
But the total size of this rom is 1024K, right ?
Blocks 064-127 have data ? If yes, it seems that this 1M rom is in fact two 512K roms, concatenated together. |
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manuel
msx guru
Posts: 3545 | Posted: October 13 2007, 13:48 |
cax, yes, yes and yes.
In that first 512k, near the end (offset 0x0E000), there are clearly routines to convert romaji to Japanese scripts:
..to.te.tsu.chi.ta.d
o.de.du.di.da.tho.th
e.thu.thi.tha.dho.dh
e.dhu.dhi.dha.tso.ts
e.tsi.tsa.cyo.cye.cy
u.cya.dyo.dye.dyu.dy
i.dya..E+E(E%E"E E.E
.E.E.E..............
.............fEbE^EZ
EVESEPEMEJEGE..no.ne
.nu.ni.na.nyo.nye.ny
u.nyi.nya.&F"
(Jipe also said this.)
The second 512kB seems to contain mostly data. From the MSX-JE description, I think it's dictionary data.
It would be great if someone could write an MSX-JE test program for me (I'm not an ASM programmer) that could do the simple tests described in Chapter 2 of http://www.msxnet.org/gtinter/msx-je.htm |
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