On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 11:59:20AM -0200, Fabio R. Schmidlin wrote:
> > > I can't use the Brazilians ROMs of Hotbit and Expert because the keyboard layout
> > > gets wrong... :(
> >
> > I'd like to add the Brazilian MSX computers, but I don't know much about them.
> > What models were releases? There's the Gradiente, Expert and Hotbit?
>
>
> 1) From Sharp:
>
> 1.1) HotBit (model: HB-8000)
>
> MSX1, 64Kb RAM (slot3), 16Kb VRAM, 2 joy ports.
> Versions: Hotbit 1.0 (white/gray, 1985), Hotbit 1.1 (white/gray, 1986)
> Hotbit 1.2 (black, 1987). Obs: I'm not sure about a Hotbit 1.0...
> External disk-drive: HB-3600 (1986)
>
> Pictures:
> Hotbit 1.1: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/msx/photos/hardware/Sharp_Hotbit_1.jpg
> Hotbit 1.2:
> ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/msx/photos/hardware/Sharp_HotBit_HB-8000_1.2.jpg
> The secont picture is bad, but you can see the external diskdrive at left of
> it.
The disk drive seems to be an 5.25" drive. Does anyone know more about them?
Are they double-sided? How many sectors per track, number of tracks? Does
it use a wd279x interface? And is it I/O port based?
> > What features do they have? What's the keyboard layout?
>
> Versions 1.0 have their own nonstandard kbd layout. Versions >=1.1 have ABNT
> keyboards. ABNT means "Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas" (Brazilian
> Association of Technical Standards? :)
Do you have a layout of the keyboard matrix? That'd be very helpful. :) Also
what keys do these machines have -- any non-standard keys?
I'll start on adding them to mess.
Cheers,
Sean
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