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Alastair wrote:

robcfg wrote:It's possible that the 200E PCB scans appear black, that is because of an issue with the thumbnail renderer.

I have not tested this but could this be due to the images being progressive jpegs?

Hmm, that's a good one, didn't notice that they were saved as progressive. I'll take a look tomorrow and try to fix them.

Ok, I fixed the PCB images.

Thanks, Alastair!

Looking at the bottom of the motherboard, it does look the the 6847 socket was fitted by hand - which would mean not many of these were produced?

I did wonder if the "E" stood for educación as use in schools would require lowercase and correct language character sets.

The meaning of the E could be Education, Expandido (Expanded) or Español (Spanish).

It's a pity not to have any manual or box to confirm the fact, but at least we have this machine fairly well documented now, and some myths were busted in the process

This triggered a lot of rethinking of keyboard handing in XRoar - and led me to discover that the UK isn't the only region that Apple decide to make non-standard keyboard layouts for!

Anyway, I've pushed up a snapshot here: http://www.6809.org.uk/tmp/xroar/ which will load d200e_1.rom, d200e_2.rom and d200e_26.rom (the font) if you run with "-machine dragon200e". If you actually have a Spanish keyboard, run with "-keymap es" or "-keymap es_apple"¡

This should make exploring the machine a little easier for those of us that don't have one (everyone but your friend?)!

It works like a charm, thank you very much!

I tested the DragonDOS controller and works ok with the real machine. Shouldn't be any difference with a standard Dragon 64.

The keyboard translation (-kbd-translate) is not working correctly under Dragon 200e emulation.

Hah, oops. Spacebar, right? I can't believe I didn't test that - went through all the punctuation (the stuff that actually changes!) each time making sure it reflected the OS keyboard layout, and completely missed pressing space.

I've quickly pushed new snapshots, hopefully it's not a more fundamental problem.

This is very work in progress, the equivalent GTK+ stuff won't even work yet.

The ( @ ' ) key is still not working correctly. Tested the Win32 build under WinXP Pro SP3+.

Cheers, think I've nobbled that one now too. Also borrowed the 200-E's use of Shift+Enter as a general Caps Lock in translated mode. Though I've just spotted another problem with meta keys, so more snapshots to come!

Here are the Dragon 200-E characters I've found that can be typed directly - anyone got any more?
BTW, I know there are more that can be type with Shift+7 then a character in lowercase mode, but I can't easily map sequences of keypresses like that right now.