Sharpworks
@sharpworks.bsky.social
Retro gaming publisher for the Sharp MZ-80 and MZ-700 machines.
http://youtube.com/@mzsharpworks
https://mz-sharpworks.co.uk/
https://mz-80a.com/
https://basictoz80.wordpress.com/
Devon, UK
http://youtube.com/@mzsharpworks
https://mz-sharpworks.co.uk/
https://mz-80a.com/
https://basictoz80.wordpress.com/
Devon, UK
Some nice new arrivals to flick though :)
February 6, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Some nice new arrivals to flick though :)
This was a pretty cool find. A decent platformer game in the same vein as Manic Miner etc on the Sharp MZ-80K. Not that I'm particularly good at it yet but this has some really nice animations using the Sharpscii graphics.
January 19, 2026 at 5:19 PM
This was a pretty cool find. A decent platformer game in the same vein as Manic Miner etc on the Sharp MZ-80K. Not that I'm particularly good at it yet but this has some really nice animations using the Sharpscii graphics.
Pretty excellent arrival this morning ! A few tapes with loads of unpublished but mostly finished programs / games on and two published titles which I’d never heard of before :)
January 16, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Pretty excellent arrival this morning ! A few tapes with loads of unpublished but mostly finished programs / games on and two published titles which I’d never heard of before :)
Three new lovely arrivals today to add to the collection :)
January 15, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Three new lovely arrivals today to add to the collection :)
Some pretty hard to find things have arrived this morning :) Including the QuickDisk version of Hisoft’s Pascal!
January 12, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Some pretty hard to find things have arrived this morning :) Including the QuickDisk version of Hisoft’s Pascal!
It’s been a while but I think I’m ready to start up my blog again where I convert BASIC listings from type-in books such as the Usborne ones into fully explained Z80 assembly listings. Seems like a good New Year’s resolution :) I believe I was doing “Beat The Bug Eyes” next.
December 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It’s been a while but I think I’m ready to start up my blog again where I convert BASIC listings from type-in books such as the Usborne ones into fully explained Z80 assembly listings. Seems like a good New Year’s resolution :) I believe I was doing “Beat The Bug Eyes” next.
A nice arrival today just before Christmas :)
December 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
A nice arrival today just before Christmas :)
This is the Xmas jumper I’ve got my son for this year :)
December 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This is the Xmas jumper I’ve got my son for this year :)
Playing a bit of "Head Driver" on the MZ-700. I really have no idea what's going on here ! 😂
December 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Playing a bit of "Head Driver" on the MZ-700. I really have no idea what's going on here ! 😂
And then my Analogue 3D turns up a few minutes later! It’s a good day :)
December 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
And then my Analogue 3D turns up a few minutes later! It’s a good day :)
Non-Sharp related but this is an awesome arrival this morning :) A new game for the 2600.
December 2, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Non-Sharp related but this is an awesome arrival this morning :) A new game for the 2600.
Some more tapes arrived today :) Some I have and lots I definitely don’t!
November 20, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Some more tapes arrived today :) Some I have and lots I definitely don’t!
Today’s awesome arrival, a huge lot of MZ tapes including some original Sharp User’s Club library tapes! I wonder what delights I’m going to find in this lot! :)
November 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Today’s awesome arrival, a huge lot of MZ tapes including some original Sharp User’s Club library tapes! I wonder what delights I’m going to find in this lot! :)
All set up for this year’s Retro Fest 🙂 Just simple setup this year.
November 15, 2025 at 10:15 AM
All set up for this year’s Retro Fest 🙂 Just simple setup this year.
Yeah but it's no this...
September 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Yeah but it's no this...
#Sharptember A chance find amongst a bunch of tapes I won in an auction turned up something pretty interesting, a compilation tape of games written by Col Needham (the inventor of IMDb) and possibly his master tape from which he sold his mail order games. Here's his game "UFO Attack".
September 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
#Sharptember A chance find amongst a bunch of tapes I won in an auction turned up something pretty interesting, a compilation tape of games written by Col Needham (the inventor of IMDb) and possibly his master tape from which he sold his mail order games. Here's his game "UFO Attack".
#Sharptember If you replace the CG-ROM file in the emulator with the Japanese one you can play Japanese MZ games with the correct graphics showing. Here's a bit of Namco's Galaxian demonstrating the much coveted single pixel graphic character that was not available in the western ROM.
September 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
#Sharptember If you replace the CG-ROM file in the emulator with the Japanese one you can play Japanese MZ games with the correct graphics showing. Here's a bit of Namco's Galaxian demonstrating the much coveted single pixel graphic character that was not available in the western ROM.
#Sharptember The popular "Greedy Gremlins" game, this time for the MZ-80A. I recently rescued this from an official Knights tape - I don't think I realised there was an MZ-80A version until now! It makes use of the 80A's inverse display quite a lot.
September 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
#Sharptember The popular "Greedy Gremlins" game, this time for the MZ-80A. I recently rescued this from an official Knights tape - I don't think I realised there was an MZ-80A version until now! It makes use of the 80A's inverse display quite a lot.
#Sharptember One of the more popular assembler environments on the MZ was Avalon's program Zen. It's a simple line editor and here I show a few of the commands. E to enter lines of code. P which prints x number of lines of the program and T to target a line of the program. /1
September 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
#Sharptember One of the more popular assembler environments on the MZ was Avalon's program Zen. It's a simple line editor and here I show a few of the commands. E to enter lines of code. P which prints x number of lines of the program and T to target a line of the program. /1
#Sharptember So what makes the MZ-80A a bit unique amongst the other MZs available in the West? Well, it had double the VRAM. This meant, unlike other 8-bit computers, you could scroll the screen up and down as you can see in the video. Lines of BASIC could come back onto the screen! /1
September 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
#Sharptember So what makes the MZ-80A a bit unique amongst the other MZs available in the West? Well, it had double the VRAM. This meant, unlike other 8-bit computers, you could scroll the screen up and down as you can see in the video. Lines of BASIC could come back onto the screen! /1
#Sharptember ! And here is a small bit of gameplay from the excellent adventure game Ropoko for the MZ-700, the English language version which will be available later this year. It's a tricky puzzle adventure with some bold big sprites and graphics that will keep you entertained for quite some time!
September 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
#Sharptember ! And here is a small bit of gameplay from the excellent adventure game Ropoko for the MZ-700, the English language version which will be available later this year. It's a tricky puzzle adventure with some bold big sprites and graphics that will keep you entertained for quite some time!
#Sharptember Many people may not have noticed that the popular magazines of the time, e.g. C & VG and Your Computer were covering the MZ machines quite well. Having been through many homemade tapes from eBay auctions it's clear what one of the most popular type-ins was. Defender, of course :)
September 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
#Sharptember Many people may not have noticed that the popular magazines of the time, e.g. C & VG and Your Computer were covering the MZ machines quite well. Having been through many homemade tapes from eBay auctions it's clear what one of the most popular type-ins was. Defender, of course :)
#Sharptember In Japan there were lots of games we didn’t have official ports of over here. Here’s two of them, Galaxian and Pac-Man, both by Namco and on cassette for the MZ-700! Pac-Man will even use the PCG add-on (rare here) for hi-res graphics.
September 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
#Sharptember In Japan there were lots of games we didn’t have official ports of over here. Here’s two of them, Galaxian and Pac-Man, both by Namco and on cassette for the MZ-700! Pac-Man will even use the PCG add-on (rare here) for hi-res graphics.