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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My 9 games #My9Games my9games.net/en/share/4be...

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A really awesome arrival today consisting of some fairly rare Kuma tapes for the MZ-80K :)

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Not sure I'd really heard of it before, it doesn't sound familiar. Interesting machine!

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A few screenshots for #Sharptember - This is the English language version of Tookato's excellent graphic adventure game "Ropoko" for the Sharp MZ-700, coming very soon now on physical cassette tape from Sharpworks :)

English language version of "Ropoko" for the Sharp MZ-700. Coming soon from Sharpworks.

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I recently managed to get hold of an original manual for HiSoft's "DEVPAC" programming environment for the MZ-700. So here it is in all its glory :) mz-archive.co.uk/downloads/YH...

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Well, it’s all solved now. Quick fix of SD card playing tape player hooked into my MZ machine via car cassette adapter and the volume right up :) Back in business!

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Another update to the archive today! I came across a decent copy of Knights Forth language for the MZ-700 recently and it included a manual, I've added that to the relevant page: mz-archive.co.uk/downloads/14... Again, the manual was absolutely tiny formed the J-Card for the cassette case itself.

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Another addition to the archive today. A compilation of four games in BASIC for the MZ-700. Pretty sure these were just churned out by the guy who owned Solo Software as I feel he tended towards quantity rather than quality most of the time whilst running Solo. mz-archive.co.uk/downloads/HC...

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

And now it's the turn of Knight's Computers "Expert Machine Code" to be added to the archive :) The documentation is a tiny manual forming the cassette's J-card so very hard to read in its tiny font, the PDF on my archive makes this much easier. mz-archive.co.uk/downloads/qV...

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Got it up and running, will do a proper video in a couple of days when my son’s back and can hold the camera :) or vice versa as he’s bound to want to play it. Give it a decent play for a while, it’s pretty addictive :) The ship movement is very player friendly which is great!

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Finally added a copy of Hisoft's "Pascal" interpreter / compiler for the MZ-700 to my archive! mz-archive.co.uk/downloads/ES...

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the ‘90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

“Bytes” by Black Dog Productions. Far ahead of its time and an influence on so much to come in the ‘90s.

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Looking good! Written for R&L BASIC 700-4, but can work in standard Sharp BASIC (however currently the colours will be slightly wrong if S-BASIC is used, I believe Roy is updating this and will be fixed later). Just showing off how terrible I am at Tetris :D

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Another awesome arrival today :) According to the seller they are rare. Certainly not seen them before myself, and inside the cassette case there are tonnes of printed instructions (in very small type).

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Another nice arrival today :) Never heard of this one before so had to have it for the collection.

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Another nice arrival today :) three more titles for the collection, never knew these existed. Just when I think there can’t be many more releases to collect for the MZ, more always seem to crop up!

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Well that’s just bloody great. My main laptop. Luckily most things including my websites are backed up but definitely lost some stuff. Good old SSDs.

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Just getting setup for this year’s awesome Retro Fest :)

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

And here is another recovery from a -really- bad tape. It turns out that "Ghouls & Ghosts" is a graphic adventure after all and quite nicely presented!

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Finally rescued 'The Evils of Dennis' from a very bad tape (with the help of a friend) and it's not too bad. It's like another Nightmare Park mini-game release (with some rather intriguing insults included).

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Without stating your age post your favourite film released the year you turned 18. I saw it in the cinema. It wasn't great (although the camerawork was pretty impressive). However, the Assembly Cut which I only saw for the first time a few years ago is like a different film! Like it a lot.

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

This game made such an impression on me. It really felt like you were part of a living breathing galaxy. And the storyline was great. All on a couple of 360K floppy disks.

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

And then along came the MZ-80A :)

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Found the program, funnily enough it's one written by Col Needham :)

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Just thinking back to the amazing time when Retro Gamer magazine reviewed @jfroholt.bsky.social 's awesome game Minesnake and gave it 82% ! In my opinion, best Snake-type game available for the Sharp MZ series :D They also gave us a two page spread with an interview with Joachim too.

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

A little bit of Qixi for the MZ-700

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Another interesting arrival today! I wonder just how much it has to do with the arcade game of the same name. Probably very little!

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

For instance, the first picture here is the first bank on the Western character set and the second picture represents the Japanese machines' first bank of chars.

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

A few more arrivals today :) Particularly interesting if you want extra extra ++ Biorhythms

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Another new arrival today :) not sure whether this is MZ-700 or maybe MZ-80. Also, not sure yet what Dennis has done but I will find out!

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Another nice arrival today :) My collection is rapidly expanding at the moment!

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Another nice selection of MZ-700 arrivals today :) Some random homemade tapes too, who knows what delights could be on those!

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Not in great condition but today’s arrival is another title I haven’t come across before for the MZ-700 :)

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Interesting arrival today, not a game whose title I have come across before for the Sharp :)

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Another nice arrival today :) I actually have this game in a different format (it’s dual format with 80K and 80A versions) so this is just a variation I didn’t have in my collection yet.

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

A couple of very nice arrivals today for the collection :)

Two tape games for the MZ-80K, one is the game “Quest” and the other is the game “Moonlander II”

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

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

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Leafing through November 1980 of Practical Computing and found possibly an early article / program by @stinkyox.bsky.social :)

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Some nice new arrivals to flick though :)

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

This was a pretty cool find. A decent platformer game in the same vein as Manic Miner etc on the Sharp MZ-80K. Not that I'm particularly good at it yet but this has some really nice animations using the Sharpscii graphics.

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Pretty excellent arrival this morning ! A few tapes with loads of unpublished but mostly finished programs / games on and two published titles which I’d never heard of before :)

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Three new lovely arrivals today to add to the collection :)

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Some pretty hard to find things have arrived this morning :) Including the QuickDisk version of Hisoft’s Pascal!

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

It’s been a while but I think I’m ready to start up my blog again where I convert BASIC listings from type-in books such as the Usborne ones into fully explained Z80 assembly listings. Seems like a good New Year’s resolution :) I believe I was doing “Beat The Bug Eyes” next.

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

A nice arrival today just before Christmas :)

Two cassette tapes containing Hisoft’s DevPac development environment for the Sharp MZ-700 computer.

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