Daxeria Posted April 10, 2019 Report Share Posted April 10, 2019 From Tech Note #138: The Japanese Macintosh Plus has the Kanji 12 and 18 point fonts in ROM [...] Note that the Japanese Macintosh is unique; Apple has not produced other foreign versions of the Macintosh for different scripts. The introduction of the Arabic Interface System, for example, did not include an Arabic ROM version. Has this ROM variant ever been dumped? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paralel Posted April 10, 2019 Report Share Posted April 10, 2019 Good question. From a quick look around, not that I can tell. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dog Cow Posted April 10, 2019 Report Share Posted April 10, 2019 1 hour ago, Paralel said: From a quick look around, not that I can tell. Did you check the Japanese Mac sites too in your quick look? The Japanese are big classic Mac fans, and they will certainly have access to a JP Plus ROM. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paralel Posted April 10, 2019 Report Share Posted April 10, 2019 Nope. My Japanese isn't strong enough to parse out the proper search phrasing, and I wouldn't trust an auto-translator. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
trag Posted April 12, 2019 Report Share Posted April 12, 2019 (edited) That's interesting because one of the early HW tech notes from Apple claims that there are only 3 revisions of the Mac Plus ROMs, Lonely Hearts, Lonely Heifers, and Loud Harmonica. And the latter two revisions only changed 2 and 32 bytes of code to fix SCSI edge cases. I wonder if the documenters were not well hooked into what was going on with international models. hw_11.pdf Edited April 12, 2019 by trag Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dog Cow Posted April 12, 2019 Report Share Posted April 12, 2019 (edited) Quote That's interesting because one of the early HW tech notes from Apple claims that there are only 3 revisions of the Mac Plus ROMs, A tech note that is most likely intended to apply only to the standard, canonical Mac Plus ROM. 2 hours ago, trag said: I wonder if the documenters were not well hooked into what was going on with international models. That's probably not the case. More likely is that they were documenting the standard, canonical ROM in the earlier tech note. Look at Tech Note #138, the genesis of this thread. Obviously that was documentation. Edited April 12, 2019 by Dog Cow Quote Link to post Share on other sites
trag Posted April 13, 2019 Report Share Posted April 13, 2019 Ah. Thank you for pointing that out. I was looking at "new content", but somehow, I never saw the first posting. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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