Sharp MZ

Posted: **Thu Aug 12, 2021 1:44 pm**

Hi

I have a question for you, guys

I'm a french blogger and i like to decode and launch software for old computer stored on vinyl records (i have a large list) : https://www.journaldulapin.com/2021/08/ ... dersnatch/

And my last vinyl is from sudden sway (https://www.discogs.com/fr/Sudden-Sway- ... ter/370182) , with (i mean) two software for the Sharp MZ80K. On another LP (https://www.discogs.com/fr/Sudden-Sway- ... se/1869149) there is a program for the Sharp too (but i have not this disc)

By the way, i have recorded the audio, but the Sharp MZ80K is a little complicated for me, and i'm not totally certain that the software is for this particular computer.

Can you help me ? I will try to confirm that the code is for the Sharp MZ80K, and if possible, i will try to launch it. I have tried with an emulator, i launch the computer, i use the command LOAD and i press play with the WAV file but nothing happen. Is this the right way ?

I join a sample file.

Thank you

Pierre

Posted: **Thu Aug 12, 2021 9:28 pm**

The wav file is too short and has only zero level.

Posted: **Thu Aug 12, 2021 9:35 pm**

Ah désolé, je me suis trompé de fenêtre (j'ai plusieurs fenêtres Audacity ouvertes). J'examine...

Posted: **Thu Aug 12, 2021 9:37 pm**

je n'entend pas le header caractéristique (un espèce de "bouingue") et ça me semble un peu répétitif comme motif.

Posted: **Thu Aug 12, 2021 10:03 pm**

To have an idea how the header starts (it always sounds similar for any MZ-80 K program in a wav file):

SPACERALLY.zip: (54.44 KiB) Downloaded 1277 times

I cut the big part of the data so it won't be loadable but at least you hear the wav file.

Posted: **Fri Aug 13, 2021 2:35 pm**

Thank you (merci)

Je vais essayer avec le disque complet, pour vérifier s'il y a bien le header. Il faut que je le trouve pas trop cher, maintenant.

Posted: **Sat Aug 14, 2021 9:56 am**

Le morceau que tu as choisi n'est ni un bloc de donnée régulier ni une entête d'un fichier pour MZ-80 K. De plus il est extrêmement court.

Posted: **Sat Aug 14, 2021 10:04 am**

I got Sudden Sway from somebody a long time ago but couldn't get it to work either. Here's my one.

sudden_sway.zip: (772.18 KiB) Downloaded 1354 times

Posted: **Sat Aug 14, 2021 11:52 am**

This is what I get with my SpaceRally.wav:

Code: Select all

LONG:1;tick0=10.7;tick=7
LONG:1;tick0=10.1;tick=7
LONG:1;tick0=10.1;tick=7
LONG:1;tick0=10.9;tick=6
LONG:1;tick0=10.4;tick=7
LONG:1;tick0=10.2;tick=6
LONG:1;tick0=10.5;tick=6
LONG:1;tick0=10.3;tick=6
LONG:1;tick0=10.1;tick=6
LONG:1;tick0=10.7;tick=7
LONG:1;tick0=10.3;tick=7
LONG:40;tick0=33.0;tick=22 <----- Good it founds out a LONG40
SHORT40:40 <--------------------- then a SHORT40: we have a header here!
10F0 01 53 50 41 43 45 20 52    12.083s - 532870
...

On the other hand, "sudden_sway.wav" which sounds very much like a MZ80 K program is un-extractible:

Code: Select all

LONG:20;tick0=34.1;tick=21 <--- LONG20!?
SHORT20:19 <------------------- then SHORT20!?

And it exits with no further informations.

Looking at sudden_sway waves, they are bad (see circles) so saturating them to ease transformations is almost impossible. it needs to tracks peaks and square them to 1.0 when max and to -1.0 when min.

Posted: **Mon Aug 16, 2021 8:04 pm**

Hello,
With my WAV translator program -> MZF I found this program for the fie Sudden_Sway.WAV
It's basic mz80 apparently and it looks like a game...
To be checked...

sudden_sway.mzf.zip: (1016 Bytes) Downloaded 1821 times

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