My 8255 rewrite seems to have fixed the keyboard weirdness & cursor blink speed issues on the #MZ700 emulation. It also seems to have sorted the glitches I still had with the #MZ80K keyboard. The new emulation is more efficient, so I may be able to drop the Pico clock speed another 10MHz or so ...
I'm not able to take part in #RetroChallenge this year, but I've just spent a few minutes enjoying last year's writeup of my #Sharp #MZ80K emulator for the #RaspberryPiPico . The plan for winter is to have a bash at #MZ700 emulation - faster clock & colour too!
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A Pico 2 on the VGA demo base, plus an SD card, ready to run the emulator
A game of space invades on the Pico MZ-80K
A game of draughts on the Pico MZ-80A
About the Pico MZ-80K/A: z80.timholyoake.uk/the-pico-mz-... #RetroComputing #Sharp #MZ80K #MZ80A
Image of the Sharp MZ80K microcomputer.
You’ve got a #Sharp #MZ80K. Do you save it or swap it? If saving, then why? If swapping, then for what? #RetroSaveOrSwap #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #RetroGaming #VideoGames
A 3x3 grid of images of retro computers and video game consoles.
This week’s #RetroEnnead offers you the #TVBoy, #Atari400, #Saturn, #NintendoDS, #MZ80K, #C64, #Apple2, #PS2 and #PPC512. Choose a line of 3 and lose the rest! #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #RetroGaming #VideoGames
Part of a BASIC program to calculate the magnitude and dates of lunar eclipses
Do you know when the next lunar umbral eclipse is?
The Pico MZ-80K running program 9 from Celestial #BASIC does!
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#RetroComputing #Sharp #MZ80K #PicoMZ80K
A game of draughts running on the Pico MZ-80K/A emulator in MZ-80A mode.
The first release of my Pico MZ-80A emulator has escaped!
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#RetroComputing #Sharp #MZ80A #MZ80K #RaspberryPi
Just looking at how easy it would be to extend the #PicoMZ80K to emulate the MZ-80A as well.
Shouldn't be too difficult, and it could potentially run CP/M.
I've a feeling I'm just about to fall down a rabbit hole that I swore I wouldn't ...
#RetroComputing #Sharp #MZ80K #MZ80A
The Pico MZ-80K running Sharp's Space Invader program from 1981.
Release 1.2.4 of my Pico MZ-80K emulator has escaped, with initial support for the Japanese character ROM.
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#RetroComputing #MZ80K #RaspberryPi
Images of the Mattel Aquarius, Intertec Superbrain and Sharp MZ80K microcomputers.
Today’s #RetroTrio offers you the #Intertec #Superbrain, #Sharp #MZ80K and #Mattel #Aquarius. Which will you keep, gift to a friend and delete forever? #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #RetroGaming #VideoGames
Images of the Sharp MZ80K, Dragon 32 and Mattel Aquarius microcomputers.
Today’s #RetroTrio offers you the Sharp #MZ80K, #Mattel #Aquarius and #Dragon32. Which will you keep, gift to a friend and delete forever? #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #RetroGaming #VideoGames
So happy. My software to encode and decode tapes for the sharp mz80k is working. Now to clean up, add the UI and layout the electronics #mz80k #embedded #programming