Cyrillic version of the Spectrum ROM

[TMD2003]

Vaguely related to all this, and this is a question for [mention]Alone Coder[/mention] and any other Russians:

Was there ever an agreed standard for a Cyrillic version of the Spectrum ROM character set? I've made one myself, in case I ever need it, but some of the characters still don't look right. It's much the same with the equivalent Greek, which has a lot more curly characters and isn't particularly suitable for 8×8 character squares.

[Bedazzle]

Was there ever an agreed standard for a Cyrillic version of the Spectrum ROM character set?

AFAIK, no. Every author did translations differently.

Some used Microsoft-style, when all alphabet letters are one after another - А, Б, В, Г...

Some by "pronounce" (like picture below)
A = А
B = Б
C = Ц
D = Д

Some used character positions by similarity
A = А
B = В (letter V)
C = С (letter S)
3 = З (letter Z)
and used other letters for additional characters, that was placed randomly, and possibly not full charset for getting more free memory.

I've made one myself, in case I ever need it, but some of the characters still don't look right.

Cyrillic letters for Russian is ok here:

[PeterJ]

Topic split by admin.

[Alone Coder]

96 chars were used in old releases, but modern programs use 256 chars with "CP-866" encoding. Usually such font (2048 bytes) is encoded in screen format (inc h).
Cyrillic ROMs were very rare (I never touched a computer with that).

[SamC]

Maybe a shared standard exists by computers with both latin and cyrillic alphabets in ROM?
Spektr48, Blitz, Hobbit, Orel Bk-08
At least some of them follow the KOI-7 character standard (do not know which one).

[Bedazzle]

Cyrillic ROMs were very rare (I never touched a computer with that).

Friend of mine bought some 48k clone, where was hardware switches to choose from regular/turbo loader and English/Russian font in ROM.

[Alone Coder]

Friend of mine bought some 48k clone, where was hardware switches to choose from regular/turbo loader and English/Russian font in ROM.

That's interesting, can you please provide more information? Name, date, serial number, packing, manual, story etc.

[azesmbog]

http://speccy.info/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D ... %D0%B0-002

В шрифте вместо строчных латинских букв располагались заглавные русские.[1]

[Bedazzle]

That's interesting, can you please provide more information? Name, date, serial number, packing, manual, story etc.

К сожалению, подробностей не знаю. Это было в середине девяностых, друг привёз его из Севастополя.
На корпусе два рычажка переключения турбозагрузки с ленты и шрифта. Видимо, ПЗУ менялось либо полностью, либо частично.

[Bedazzle]

http://speccy.info/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D ... %D0%B0-002

В шрифте вместо строчных латинских букв располагались заглавные русские.[1]

Клавиатура другая была, пластиковые клавиши и краской написано, точно не цветная.

[firelord]

Cyrillic letters for Russian is ok here:

The 3rd set are Greek characters. Is there a modified Greek Spectrum ROM?

[TMD2003]

Cyrillic letters for Russian is ok here:

The 3rd set are Greek characters. Is there a modified Greek Spectrum ROM?

Not that I know of - I drew that character set myself. But there is some Greek-language software out there - it was some posted uMIAs a while back. Some kind of "teach yourself chemistry", as I remember...

Theo Develegas was not involved.

ALSO: I have just discovered (on Es.pectrum) the Ukrainian Orel BK-08, which has all the error reports translated into Russian and a Spectrum-style Cyrillic character set, although it uses some weird italic-style characters without actually being italic. It's probably for clarity.

[firelord]

The 3rd set are Greek characters. Is there a modified Greek Spectrum ROM?

Not that I know of - I drew that character set myself. But there is some Greek-language software out there - it was some posted uMIAs a while back. Some kind of "teach yourself chemistry", as I remember...

Theo Develegas was not involved.

Ok thanks.
The programs you mention make their the letters for foreign languages using software. I was hopping that it might be a hacked ROM with that implemented.