Extracting Sharp MZ-700 BASIC Data Files
I’ve been digging into more MZ-700 games to try and extract data to view and parse it. One I was passed was called Three Crystals. It was a BASIC text adventure that loaded all its…
Category: Retrocomputing
Stuff about old stuff
Reversing the ZX Vega: Hardware
It’s been a while since I wrote part one. I promised I’d have a look at the hardware on the Vega. Here is the front of the board: And the rear: As can be seen…
Reversing Robico’s Island of Xaan
Overview This is a basic description of a reverse engineer of Robico’s first text adventure: Island of Xaan. Although it is one of their weakest, it shows a number of trademark features of Robico’s adventures:…
Reversing the ZX Vega: Firmware
Introduction A while back I got a ZX Vega for the LOLs and trying to remember what the Spectrum was like. Of course, I didn’t need to remember: I have quite a few in watertight boxes…