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I had this one, yeah not in the movie - just a money maker thing really :) I liked how this one’s front was weighted so it stayed upright whilst the back end could turn.

I see. I agree with your original assessment of course

What is meant by the hashtag in that listing?

Definitely up there :)

Now onto "Computer World 2" :D (The two tracks flow from one to the other), wonder how much the BBC paid Kraftwerk to use the tune for their The Computer Programme series! :)

Nice! Now I'm off to listen to Kraftwerk's 'Numbers'

Interesting place to keep ones glasses

Pretty cool arrival today :) A random Sharpsoft newsletter and also, unexpectedly, the Jeff Minter documentary “Heart of Neon”. A good day today :D

I don't mind a bit of self-modifying code if it keeps the binary smaller :)

Hence the little 'Knight' character in the 2nd bank which is used on pretty much all of Knight's games released for the 700 :)

I think because the 80A is largely unknown in Japan and wasn't sold there, the 700 was much more likely to take it's inspiration from the 80K. Interestingly, the 2nd bank of chars is different on the Japanese 700. Graham Knight visited Sharp in Japan to help design the 2nd bank for overseas 700s.

We're much cooler on the MZ-80A with our hardware scroll :D

This was what I was wondering. I've (accidentally) seen it in S-BASIC as mentioned above but made the assumption that it was just something cool that S-BASIC was doing.

Intriguing! The 80A has 2000 bytes (well, 2048 really) for VRAM. You can read memory mapped addresses (around the E200 area I think from memory - not done it in a while) to hardware scroll a 'window' of 1000 bytes shown on the screen.

I just assumed that was a function of S-BASIC itself, but you are saying that the 700 actually has the hardware scroll like the 80A?

Interesting regarding the 'scrolling' system on the MZ-700. I thought only the 80A had that. Then I pressed a particular key combination in S-BASIC (can't remember what right now) and found that I could scroll my BASIC listing up and down the screen like on the 80A.

Ported my Spectrum Rick Roll code across to the Sharp MZ-700. What took the longest was writing the code to match graphics to the highly restricted SharpSCII character set
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We didn’t seem to get a lot of computer magazines in my household, Your Computer for a bit as it always had a decent type-in section that even catered for the Sharp occasionally :) otherwise I’d go round my friend’s house and read his Zzap64. By 1987 I had a PC and was reading PC Plus.

Quite the pose!

Recursion, something I never could get my head around. Maybe now I'm older I might have a better chance...

Space Sentinels was one of them definitely

Some before work messing with my PNG -> sharpscii convertor. At the moment it's only black and white, but it's good enough. Image shows original -> B&W -> sharpscii

It possibly is, for those who never saw the MZ-80A 🙂

Muchly enjoyed, thanks for sharing it

Slightly better crap than what we have now.

That made me go off and search the auctions :) Weirdly, nothing showing at the moment! When I was last going through the Japanese auctions I remember Mappy coming up quite a lot for the MZ (but the costs were pretty high!)

It's a little tricky for it not to be primitive as you cannot access pixels on the MZ-700.

You'll have to beat me to it :D