Tag: BASIC

Benchmarking the Pico MZ-700 vs the real hardware.

Pico MZ-700 – First release

Posted on 30 November 202530 November 2025 by Tim

When I first started thinking about writing an emulator for the Sharp MZ-80K in September 2024, I decided that I was only going to attempt that model and no more.

Pico MZ-700 progress

Posted on 20 November 202520 November 2025 by Tim

I’m making decent progress with adding MZ-700 emulation to the Pico MZ. As far as I can tell I have functionally correct code and I haven’t broken the MZ-80K and

Monster Chase, Part 2

Posted on 7 July 202512 August 2025 by Tim

I’ve been working through a number of ideas to produce a Monster Chase / Robots hybrid for Sharp MZ series computers. I’ve been using my Pico MZ-80K/A emulator in K

A Summer Project: Monster Chase, Part 1

Posted on 4 June 20258 June 2025 by Tim

Monster Chase is a 48 line BASIC program from “Stimulating Simulations”, published in 1977. The book is 64 pages and is available from the Internet Archive. This program (the second

Happy Easter!

Posted on 19 April 202520 April 2025 by Tim

I’m writing this the day before Easter Sunday 2025. In AD 325 at the Council of Nicaea, Easter Sunday was decided to be the first Sunday following the first full

Celestial BASIC – Lunar Eclipses

Posted on 7 March 20257 March 2025 by Tim

I used my Pico MZ-80K emulator to create a version of the ECLIP program from Celestial BASIC by Eric Burgess. The code correctly predicts that the next lunar eclipse is

Pico MZ-80A – First release

Posted on 8 February 202510 February 2025 by Tim

With winter dragging on, I’ve had plenty of time to add the code needed for MZ-80A emulation into the Pico MZ-80K/A, as I’m now rather inelegantly referring to it. From

Pico MZ-80K floppy disks (2)

Posted on 16 November 202412 June 2026 by Tim

The quest continues! The disk images I found a couple of days ago turned out not to be MZ-80K compatible ones (at least, not with the original drives and SP-6015

Pico MZ-80K floppy disks (1)

Posted on 11 November 202412 November 2024 by Tim

Now that I have a release 1 of the Pico MZ-80K, I’m starting to work my way through a number of enhancements that have sprung to mind as I’ve tested

The Valley at 42

Posted on 7 April 202419 April 2024 by Tim

It’s 42 years since Computing Today first published The Valley. It set a new standard for magazine type-in games as the code is designed to be portable, well structured and

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