Where can I obtain a copy of the Polish character set?

[Commie_User]

Right then. I'm after a copy of the Polish 64's character set on disk image which I can copy into mine and use.

Jack Tramiel was Polish, so I suppose there should be no trouble.

If anyone can bung up a copy to download, with a short paragraph on how to load it in, that would be lovely.

[merman]

I'm guessing there would have been a replacement character ROM for Polish...

[Commie_User]

I understand that but it is possible to copy and save the character set from one machine to load into another.

[beyond]

I would guess that a Polish charset will look a bit odd as there is only one line to insert the apostrophees into - it's like the danish letter 'Æ' and 'Å� always looked strange on the C64.

Why not write a tiny program that copies the usual English alphabet and from that generate the special chars from those? That was how it was done back then - you could make an italic font by right-shifting the upper part of each char by 1

And, Tramiel is still alive - or do you mean that it is ok to copy something because of his heritage?

[Commie_User]

Thinking about it, I've seen the Polish charset readymade in some Polish programs. I could use my Action Replay to examine the RAM addresses it resides in and copy from there. I'd just have to find how and where to load them back into. I may ask another question here soon.

And yes, Tramiel is still alive but it's just as valid to say 'was'. And I'd hardly call it copyright infringement to transfer one Commie's charset to another - else every programmer selling his wares abroad could be liable for porridge.