Sharp MZ

I've cleaned up my mz-821 and got the QD and tapedrive working and lost interest quickly afterwards (it's the journey not the destination kind of thing?).
Anyway I might want to sell in the near future but I really have no idea yet what reasonable even is, since they are rarely sold online.

Ok, I never tried Jeff's firmware in the end but decided to help to get the flashfloppy firmware fixed. The experimental firmware I got seems to work!

Hi, thanks for your answer. Any idea what this "T" means ? Has anyone already replaced these belts ? Sorry for the 2+ year necropost here.. I have today replaced the belt on my quickdrive. And it works. The machine has not worked in decades so I have idea if the disks have degraded or tha...

You mean 320x200x8b (linear mode, 256 colors)? So I guess you never had to go with planar mode with SET/OR/AND/XOR operations? Yeah, that linear mode was a blessing when it comes. Yeah mode 13 or mode X (320x400 if I remember correctly) No planar mode for me, and it sounds absolutely horrible and s...

Good to know, I will try that firmware next. Will report back.

Jup that's what I did, though my info came from https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy/wiki/Quick-Disk . I Even used the same colorcoded wires from my breadboard to set it up.

Hello, I was using duck duck go to search for some sharp related things and something in the result caught my eye, so to speak... I didn't find any clickable anchors when I was verifying, but the site is littered with links to a "blog" about a certain bodily activity. <a href="https:/...

Hint: the gotek can emulate an QD-Drive too !!

I actually wired up a GOTEK to my controller (the bottom half of the MZ 1F11) And it tries to work but it's not quite there yet.
Has anybody else tried to do this with any success? I can format and ask for a list but writing seems to fail.

Since I just signed up, I might as well introduce myself too. - Male (I see a pattern here) - 1976 (I could be the youngest of us all ;) ) - the Netherlands The first "computer" to enter our house in the 80s was a second hand atari 2600. Quickly followed by a second hand MZ-721. They MZ wa...