Sharp MZ 700 stuff
Various artefacts relating to the Sharp MZ-700
Last updated 23rd January 2022
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GNU BLAT 2000 (.wav and .mzf) - Sharp BASIC 1.0A game written for the Lymphoma Action gaming challenge, April 2021.
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realfortran-en.pdf - Translation from German (with improvements) of the BBG RealFortan v1 compiler manual.
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primes-rf.F90 - Prime number generator, suitable for use with the BBG RealFortran v1 compiler. Note - this is NOT a Fortran 90 dialect!
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Sharp MZ-700 User Notes 1.pdf - Scan of the first edition of the SharpSoft USer Notes for the MZ-700.
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Drinking game v2 (.mzf) - Sharp BASIC 1.0A program to solve the puzzle using a monte carlo simulation, August 2021.
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Moonlander game v4 (.wav and .mzf) - Sharp BASIC 1.0A program implementing a moonlander game, inspired by the Usborne Books 'Spacegames' text-only version and one implemented by @electron_greg (twitter) for the Commodore PET. This implementation shares no common code with either, other than Newtonian mechanics formulae!
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Advent of code 2021 (v6), day 25 (.mzf) - the sea cucumber problem. Sharp BASIC 1.0A program to solve the puzzle using two 2D character arrays. On a 10x10 grid, this takes around 7 seconds per generation (around 50% less time with the S-BASIC Compiler). It occurs to me that there's potentially a much more efficient algorithm that uses one array and simply considers the spaces. Yep - v7 (.mzf) implements this method and saves around a second per generation on a 10x10 grid.
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Sunrise v2 (.mzf) - Sharp BASIC 1.0A program to calculate sunrise and sunset times for any day at any position on the globe. Based on the code published in Sky & Telescope, August 1994. (There is also a version of this with minimal changes for the RC2014 - https://github.com/psychotimmy/RC2014).
Sharp MZ-700 emulators will work directly with the .mzf files stored here.
If you are fortunate enough to have access to the real thing with a tape deck, mzf files need to be converted into an audio file (.wav) first. MZFStudio - https://www.nachthacker.de/DownloadBereich.html - is excellent for this conversion (and will also convert .wav files into .mzf format).