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Interesting MZ 700 with commodore floppy

Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2019 8:36 pm
by fitus
Interesting MZ 700 with custom ROM and custom interface to commodore floppy disk drive 1541.
Never seen before. Wonder what kind of DOS it used.

https://www.ebay.de/itm/SHARP-MZ-731-mi ... SwtIZc~L4o

Re: Interesting MZ 700 with commodore floppy

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2019 9:41 am
by hlide
Not something recent, it was already explained here: https://original.sharpmz.org/mz-700/mz1571.htm.

As a fact, there is no DOS but a program named as a sequence of its commands to drive the commodore floppy disk. It is more like a monitor. But you won't be able to use a BASIC with a commodore floppy drive unless the BASIC was patched to do so (that is, the program code is more and less embedded in the BASIC).