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It is the CPC that makes China Great

Started by zhulien, 11:36, 13 June 21

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zhulien

This is so funny... especially if you have close ties to china and the Amstrad CPC


actually I have never seen a CPC in China but..


Enjoy



https://youtu.be/D5guhV8co1E
This year they are going to promote that the CPC makes China Great!!!

Gryzor

Well, if they build a billion of them... :D

GUNHED

Announcement: Releasing a version of FutureOS in Cantonese at June 28!
(Thanks to these cute chinese girls helping me with the translation and other funny things around here).
http://futureos.de --> Get the revolutionary FutureOS (Update: 2023.11.30)
http://futureos.cpc-live.com/files/LambdaSpeak_RSX_by_TFM.zip --> Get the RSX-ROM for LambdaSpeak :-) (Updated: 2021.12.26)

eto

Quote from: GUNHED on 15:39, 16 June 21
Announcement: Releasing a version of FutureOS in Cantonese at June 28!
(Thanks to these cute chinese girls helping me with the translation and other funny things around here).


finally a reason to have 4MB of RAM, to store all the characters.

zhulien

be sure to have Taiwan in there as a country... we can start a meme

arnolde

Quote from: eto on 16:28, 16 June 21finally a reason to have 4MB of RAM, to store all the characters.
Really looking forward to see them all in a 8x8 grid!

ralferoo

#6
Quote from: arnolde on 11:52, 18 June 21
Really looking forward to see them all in a 8x8 grid!
This actually used to be done back in the day in Hong Kong, but there are a lot of characters where it's totally illegible, but see the attached picture for how it can be done.

Nowadays, most scrolling signs have adopted a 16x16 size matrix and that's perfectly readable.

Actually, I just realised the image I attached was 12x12. Here's a reddit thread discussing this, there's examples of smaller sizes: https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/16669/lowest-pixel-resolution-needed-to-support-chinese

Prodatron

On the MSX we have Kanji Roms with sizes of 128K (about 3000 chars) and 256K (about 4000 chars):


https://www.msx.org/wiki/Kanji-ROM

Kanji is a japanese charset based on chinese chars.
It seems that they had different resolutions, 8x16, 16x16, 6x16 and 12x16:

https://www.msx.org/wiki/CALL_KANJI

GRAPHICAL Z80 MULTITASKING OPERATING SYSTEM

kailokyra

#8

There's also an Apple II clone called the 中华学习机 CEC-I that was used in schools mid-80 / start of the 90s. With a huge character rom, take a look at the page 103 of the manual I scanned here, it's quite impressive : https://archive.org/details/diannao-laoshi-zhonghua-xuexi-ji-dianzi-gongye-chuban-she-cec-i/page/102/mode/2up


There was Orion branded CPCs in China though probably in confidential number, or for showcase only, but enough to have a manual, user guide for Masterfile, and a booklet describing a few games .  ;D  https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Orion+CPC%22

And some pics of the Orion CPC on acpc.me : acpc.me/#ACME/HARDWARE_MODELES_DE_CPC/[CHI]CHINA

ralferoo

#9
Quote from: kailokyra on 14:40, 22 December 21take a look at the page 103 of the manual I scanned here, it's quite impressive : https://archive.org/details/diannao-laoshi-zhonghua-xuexi-ji-dianzi-gongye-chuban-she-cec-i/page/102/mode/2up
Interesting that it's sorted alphabetically by pinyin rather than any of the other (presumably more usual at the time) encodings.


Also, interesting that there's a Zhuyin block after the latin extended characters, row 8 characters 37 on... Which seems odd as I presume this computer was meant for use in the mainland not Taiwan.

ComSoft6128

There were one or two letters from Hong Kong CPC users in the early issues of AA & ACU, but they might have been from British army personnel?

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