Introduction
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 4:20 pm
Hi,
just discovered this Sharp Forum and wanted to introduce myself a bit:
- male
- *1974
- living in south of Germany
- MZ-821 was my first computer in 1986
I did some BASIC coding with it, before switching to a more popular and powerful machine in mid 1988 (an Amiga).
But I never forgot the Sharp completely and never gave it away. Some weeks ago I took it from it's decades of sleep to show it to my sons.
They are 7 and 9 years old and to my own astonishment they liked some of my old BASIC games.
So I'm a little bit motivated to dive deeper into MZ-800 coding again. Just ordered some RAM chips to update VRAM to 32K and bought some Quickdisks.
I started a PacMan clone in MZ-800 BASIC and searching for information how to speed graphics up a bit.
I never managed to get into Z80 machine code back than (at age of 12-14) but later did some 68k and i86 assembly.
Also want to look at some emulators to do coding at the PC.
just discovered this Sharp Forum and wanted to introduce myself a bit:
- male
- *1974
- living in south of Germany
- MZ-821 was my first computer in 1986
I did some BASIC coding with it, before switching to a more popular and powerful machine in mid 1988 (an Amiga).
But I never forgot the Sharp completely and never gave it away. Some weeks ago I took it from it's decades of sleep to show it to my sons.
They are 7 and 9 years old and to my own astonishment they liked some of my old BASIC games.
So I'm a little bit motivated to dive deeper into MZ-800 coding again. Just ordered some RAM chips to update VRAM to 32K and bought some Quickdisks.
I started a PacMan clone in MZ-800 BASIC and searching for information how to speed graphics up a bit.
I never managed to get into Z80 machine code back than (at age of 12-14) but later did some 68k and i86 assembly.
Also want to look at some emulators to do coding at the PC.