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by mz-80a
Thu Apr 20, 2023 11:15 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Star Avenger
Replies: 17
Views: 14992

Re: Star Avenger

I successfully rescued the complete game last night. However, the loading screen part failed to execute the main game. Very strange, so still more to work out on this one. I can load the main game on its own though (which you can't from the tape due to the primitive copy protection) because I altere...
by mz-80a
Wed Apr 19, 2023 7:44 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Star Avenger
Replies: 17
Views: 14992

Re: Star Avenger

Ok this is pretty interesting, different results from disassembling the loader when I do so on the MZ-700: Star Avenger Loader 700.png Pretty odd to suddenly have a different result than when I did this on the 80A. But this gets me a lot further, this is more like what I expected. This is priming th...
by mz-80a
Wed Apr 19, 2023 7:29 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Star Avenger
Replies: 17
Views: 14992

Re: Star Avenger

Well, I've just successfully loaded my original Star Avenger tape on my MZ-700 so I've proven my tape is good. I then decided to try and circumvent the 1st 'loader' program and only load the 2nd one. I got the same result as I did on my 80A in SuperTape, the MZ says it's loading a file called "...
by mz-80a
Wed Apr 19, 2023 7:07 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Star Avenger
Replies: 17
Views: 14992

Re: Star Avenger

The plot thickens. I just noticed this in the loader file's header (first file on the tape with the title screen in) residing in the comments field from $1108: Star Avenger Tape Header Comments.png Unsure what's going on now. It's an interesting puzzle. I probably shouldn't be trying to copy the tap...
by mz-80a
Wed Apr 19, 2023 7:43 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Star Avenger
Replies: 17
Views: 14992

Re: Star Avenger

For anyone interested, I disassembled the loader for Star Avenger: Star Avenger Disassemble.png The reason for this is that I think there is some sort of primitive copy protection happening with it. I have the original tape (finally a working one) now and was trying to read it into MZF Studio but on...
by mz-80a
Sun Apr 16, 2023 10:27 am
Forum: Other
Topic: SUC magazines
Replies: 1
Views: 3515

Re: SUC magazines

I'm planning on scanning all mine in (including OCR) for my website soon but it's going to take a while.
by mz-80a
Fri Apr 14, 2023 8:46 am
Forum: Assembly
Topic: [BASIC TO Z80] For the beginner
Replies: 4
Views: 4809

[BASIC TO Z80] For the beginner

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https://basictoz80.wordpress.com/2023/0 ... archlight/

A little something I worked on recently.
by mz-80a
Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:41 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Unsure MZF Programs
Replies: 0
Views: 3786

Unsure MZF Programs

I'm just dumping this here as I have all these files but don't know what they are / what they work on / how to make them work. Hopefully someone else might and we can preserve them with some idea of their use.
Unsure MZ Programs.zip
(385.63 KiB) Downloaded 296 times
by mz-80a
Sun Mar 12, 2023 9:21 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Star Avenger
Replies: 17
Views: 14992

Re: Star Avenger

Also, I have this file to add to the Star Avenger topic :
STAR AVENGER.zip
(720 Bytes) Downloaded 245 times
Looks like just a title screen / loader program.
by mz-80a
Sat Mar 11, 2023 11:13 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Star Avenger
Replies: 17
Views: 14992

Re: Star Avenger

I've actually just tried this in two different MZ-700 emulators and cannot get the files in the download to work! Not sure if it's something I'm doing wrong but I don't usually have any issues. This was the coolest game I had for my MZ-700 back in the day, and when I got back into the MZ some years ...