IMC-2001 40 character mode

A4-A6 on the schematics is the character ROM in a chip labelled UMC UM2316-J127 8432, it is Intel 2716 EPROM compatible chip it seems.

It can be read with the TL866 and returns the following 2K dump:

chargen.rom: Chargen 40-column ROM

The official ROM 3410036.BIN on http://www.applelogic.org/APPLEASICs.html doesn’t match at all. The arangement of the characters is different and there are lowercase characters in the clone ROM.

I wrote a small program to show the contents of chargen.rom:

#!/usr/bin/tcc -run -Werror -DSDL_DISABLE_IMMINTRIN_H -I/usr/include/SDL2 -lSDL2

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <SDL.h>

int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
{
	FILE *f = fopen( "./chargen.rom", "r" );
	char *buf = malloc( 2 * 1024 );
	fread( buf, 2 * 1024, 1, f );

	SDL_Renderer *renderer;
	SDL_Window *window;

	SDL_Init( SDL_INIT_VIDEO );
	SDL_CreateWindowAndRenderer( 300, 200, 0, &window, &renderer );
	SDL_SetRenderDrawColor( renderer, 0, 0, 0, 0 );
	SDL_RenderClear( renderer );
	SDL_SetRenderDrawColor(renderer, 0xFF, 0xB0, 0, 255 );

	int x = 0;
	int y = 0;
	for( int c = 0; c < 2 * 1024; c++ ) {
		int v = buf[c] & 0x00ff;
		for( int b = 0; b < 8; b++ ) {
			if( v & 0x01 ) {
				SDL_RenderDrawPoint( renderer, x, y );
			}
			v >>= 1;
			x++;
		}
		x -= 8;
		y += 1;
		if( ( (c+1) % 128 ) == 0 ) {
			x += 10;
			y = 0;
		}
	}

	SDL_RenderPresent( renderer );

	int done = 0;
	while( !done ) {
		SDL_Event event;
		SDL_PollEvent( &event );
		switch( event.type ) {
			case SDL_QUIT:
			case SDL_KEYDOWN:
				done = 1;
				break;
		}
	}


	SDL_DestroyRenderer( renderer );
	SDL_DestroyWindow( window );
	SDL_Quit( );

	free( buf );
	fclose( f );
	return 0;
}

And indeed I get: