Reading through some old magazines prompted me to ask a gent on Facebook, known for tracking down ZX Spectrum's with Arabic ROMS, if he knew if the ZX81 had an Arabic ROM produced. He pointed me to this..
so it seems it was!
Looks like a keyboard overlay was used for Arabic script (the Speccies had Arabic characters on the keys)
So my question is this - does anyone have a link or copy of the Arabic ROM? I have used the forum search but Arab/Arabic does not give a hit.
Arabic ZX81 Rom
Arabic ZX81 Rom
ZX80, ZX81 - 2C158C Bugged Rom iss.1, 2C158C "kludge fix" iss1, 2C184E iss1, 2C210E iss3, US NTSC iss1 "straight traces", US NTSC iss3 TS1000