Sharpworks

Three new homebrew games available from the Sharpworks store at : sharpworks.onlineweb.shop (also on eBay if you prefer).

Actually, this beauty came from a collector here in the UK. My MZ-80K with the replacement keyboard, however, had to come all the way from Japan and that wasn't cheap!

Lots of nice updates to my MZ Archive today, plenty of new MZ-80K titles added :) mz-archive.co.uk/news.html

Ooh, I love a bit of Space Harrier: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5n_... 😂😀

The past 24 hours, I had no less than two dreams about RetroFest UK 2027. In the first one I was packing and hurrying to the airport. In the second dream I had decided to skip it and raided my cupboard for booze to get really drunk instead. @loudscotsbloke.bsky.social @shortcircuit.org.uk

#my9albums www.my9albums.com/s/d91O0evG4s That was basically impossible to pick. A -lot- of electronic music really because that has been my fascination and interest since the age of about 11 (when I first heard Radioactivity). Need another 18 slots really, so much not mentioned.

A really awesome arrival today consisting of some fairly rare Kuma tapes for the MZ-80K :)

I see that someone has used #AI to create a Sharp MZ-700/MZ-80A emulator. Sigh. I can guarantee that my #PicoMZ emulator for the MZ-700, MZ-80K and MZ-80A is completely AI free, so all of the bugs are of my own devising 🤪

Just a little re-post for #Sharptember of some of @raymanta.bsky.social 's awesome #Sharpscii art :)

A few screenshots for #Sharptember - This is the English language version of Tookato's excellent graphic adventure game "Ropoko" for the Sharp MZ-700, coming very soon now on physical cassette tape from Sharpworks :)

A quick #sharptember post. Here's my MZ-80A at a small computer gathering in Bryne, Norway, earlier this year. Pretty much every other machine was a @commodoreofficial.bsky.social of some sort. :)

Conference call!

Just look at the lushness :D

#PicoMZ 3.1 has escaped! More about the latest release of my Sharp MZ-80K, MZ-80A and MZ-700 emulator for the #RaspberryPi Pico here: z80.timholyoake.uk/pico-mz-rele... #RetroComputing

Very cool ad in Joachim's club-style newsletter :)

Thanks! Yes, I'm quite happy with the manual :) Here are a few pages:

Joachim has put together an awesome package here full of his great games for the Sharp MZ and to top it off he created a really cool manual in the style of the old club newsletters we used to have back in the day. It's a fun read but also looks so cool. Please check it out! ko-fi.com/s/f0e274af58

I recently managed to get hold of an original manual for HiSoft's "DEVPAC" programming environment for the MZ-700. So here it is in all its glory :) mz-archive.co.uk/downloads/YH...

My getaway vehicle…

I’ll be there with my MZ-80K, MZ-700, Lunar Lander and some other bits and pieces. It’s looking to be a fun weekend!

Making progress with my next version of the #PicoMZ. Japanese graphics ROM implemented as an option for the MZ-700, some annoying keyboard bugs squashed, an upgrade to Pico SDK 2.3.0 being tested. There's more items on the todo list, but I'm aiming to release v3.1 later this month. #RetroComputing

Another addition to the archive today. A compilation of four games in BASIC for the MZ-700. Pretty sure these were just churned out by the guy who owned Solo Software as I feel he tended towards quantity rather than quality most of the time whilst running Solo. mz-archive.co.uk/downloads/HC...

And now it's the turn of Knight's Computers "Expert Machine Code" to be added to the archive :) The documentation is a tiny manual forming the cassette's J-card so very hard to read in its tiny font, the PDF on my archive makes this much easier. mz-archive.co.uk/downloads/qV...

New from me: Getting the #PicoMZ ready for the #RC2014 assembly 2.0 z80.timholyoake.uk/pico-mz-at-t...

I'm writing a C64 programming book, and Patreon members get it as I create it www.patreon.com/retrogamecod...

Finally added a copy of Hisoft's "Pascal" interpreter / compiler for the MZ-700 to my archive! mz-archive.co.uk/downloads/ES...

Post a perfect album from the ‘90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

Looking good! Written for R&L BASIC 700-4, but can work in standard Sharp BASIC (however currently the colours will be slightly wrong if S-BASIC is used, I believe Roy is updating this and will be fixed later). Just showing off how terrible I am at Tetris :D

I have just released a version of my ALTAIRIS game for the Sharp MZ-700 !! Feel free to check it out! loudscotsbloke.itch.io/altairis-sha...

Another awesome arrival today :) According to the seller they are rare. Certainly not seen them before myself, and inside the cassette case there are tonnes of printed instructions (in very small type).

Another nice arrival today :) Never heard of this one before so had to have it for the collection.

The final part of @jfroholt.bsky.social 's look at one of the Knights library collections for the Sharp MZ-80A :)

Another nice arrival today :) three more titles for the collection, never knew these existed. Just when I think there can’t be many more releases to collect for the MZ, more always seem to crop up!

Lets head to Retrofest 2026! While the Commodore 64s and Spectrums brought back childhood memories, the stars of the weekend were obscure Graphics workstations and unique prototype 3D accelerator. It was a celebration of digital history by a community of exhibitors and creators! youtu.be/blMLEKHWRjM

Well that’s just bloody great. My main laptop. Luckily most things including my websites are backed up but definitely lost some stuff. Good old SSDs.

I’ve not seen many videos of Retro Fest pop up but this is a really good one. Sadly I was often away from my table as I had a horrible tickly throat that meant I couldn’t hold lengthy conversations with folks. Had to keep ducking outside with my water bottle. It was a fantastic event though!

Just getting setup for this year’s awesome Retro Fest :)

This is shaping up to be a really fantastic event with a huge number of exhibitors. I’ll be there with my MZ-700 and MZ-80K. Tickets are still available for the Sunday !

Didn't need sleep anyway, so there. I think.

It's #retrofest2026 very soon indeed - just over a week! Saturday is SOLD OUT, but there's still tickets for Sunday - www.retrofest.uk/tickets.php - and it is, obviously, going to be awesome! Here's a few more photos from last year to get us in the mood ...

Stanley Kubrick’s Wargames.