Sharp MZ

hlide wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 8:31 pm I don't know what's you called speech program: concatenation of some robotic phonemes? They are not what I called decent.

Yeah I mean........... it's better than nothing but was quite common, for instance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8wyUsaDAyI

You will need a decent bitrate to output a good speech and 64KByte is not enough. This is what's confusing to me. Because I had a software speech program on my BBC Micro B when I was a kid and that only had 32K RAM. I'm pretty sure I've seen on a Japanese site once an MZ-80K speech program that was...

I presume a software only speech program is still possible though. As much as 1-bit sampled sound is also a possibility.

Well that answers my query as to whether I was missing any hardware! Very interesting, thanks! Hi, It crashes due to there is no code a $C000 for the USR() call, there are no data POKES to, or a LIMIT set to protect the $C000 area. From the listing “USR($C000,O$), I think the program refers to the J...

hlide wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:02 am Can you extract the basic program as a text file so we can have a look?

I don't think so. But you're welcome to download the file and try yourself.

Hi,

I've been trying to get this software (for the MZ-700) to work today on both the emulator and the real machine but it just seems to hang. Anyone know what might be wrong? Or perhaps it relies on some additional hardware.

Hi, Sharpworks has just released a new game for the MZ-700 and for the MZ-80 machines. It's been designed to work on both Western and Japanese machines and is available from: https://sharpworks.onlineweb.shop/ I attach some photos of the physical cassette. The game also has a really nice loading scr...

Would be good to know what software you have with it

Not sure on this one. Found on a random tape amongst other 80K stuff. Machine code program. Wonder if anyone's seen it before.

No problem. It really is just a collection of random stuff found on random tapes from auctions. None of it is 'official' published software.