Re: Apple II+ Clone: ROMAX 2000 DLX

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Carlos Bragatto wrote:
> Hello everybody !
>
> I got hold of this strange Apple II plus clone made in China (or
> Korea, no idea), by Royal Computers, called ROMAX 2000 DLX.
>
> What seems to be very weird is that it is an Apple II plus, has 64K of
> onboard RAM and there's no video output !

Well, actually it does--it's just wired straight from the 4-pin aux
video connector and the usual RCA connector on the main board is
optimised out.

> Instead the video seems to be merged (or genlocked) into a card that,
> I think, generates korean characters and then outputs the image.

This topology was pretty common for Kanji and Hangul character sets.
Usually, two consecutive characters were used as a 16-bit character
for indexing the character generator ROMs.

-michael

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