Add Pravetz 82 support #204
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This is great, when I saw it in my notifications I thought it was a feature request, not a PR, so I thought, well, that's a good idea and I can look into it but I need track down ROMs and such, but no, that's all here. I love the keyboard color detail.
My Internet Archive search didn't turn up much in the way of software, if you have any images that I could put up that would be cool.
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This makes me think that I probably should have used a table lookup for this before, but that's a future optimization.
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Thanks for the prompt response! I'd try to update the new application keyboard ( Regarding software, I have a few Bulgarian disk images. Are you suggesting adding them to |
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I tend to not add a lot of disks to the code repo, because it could easily become a slippery slope, but having a disk that allows for testing would be great. If there are other disks (I searched archive.org and didn't see any) I could add them to the software library on the website. |
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Pravetz 82 is a Bulgarian Apple ][ clone - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravetz_82
As the excellent Apple ][js already supports different "system types", if it is appropriate, I would like to propose adding "Pravetz 82" to it.
I find quite amusing the idea that, Bulgaria cloned the Apple hardware ][ in the '80s and customized the ROMs and 40 years later it is possible to clone an Apple ][ emulator and run the same customized ROMs on it with no changes. :)
The main challenge was adapting the keyboard which does specific key remapping to allow replacing the lower-case latin letters with upper-case Cyrillic ones, changes the behavior of the Shift key and introduces a Caps Lock-like key for switching between languages. To allow that and to make the keyboard look similar to the original one, I introduced a "keyboard layout" concept.
I'd be happy to adapt the code further, if necessary.
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