Re: Using Commodore IEC devices on non-Commodore 8-bit computers, Sharp PC-1500

From: Mia Magnusson <mia_at_plea.se>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 20:56:19 +0100
Message-ID: <20171102205619.00007210@plea.se>
Den Thu, 2 Nov 2017 16:46:02 +0100 skrev Konrad B
<konrad0x42@gmail.com>:
> Funny, I have been playing with the PC1500+CE150 (base) today. And
> yesterday I reverse engineered most of the CE516P plotter guts
> (hmm... I already ordered a couple of HD68B03YPs to do some hacking).

I wounder if that plotter shares something with the plotter in MZ 731.
(I could check myself, I have both PC1500, CE150 and CE158 (rs-232
interface) and an MZ 731).

There is a DIY IEC interface for the MZ700 series. It seems btw that
Sharp didn't have any real plan for how users could combine a PC1500
with a MZ series computer. Also it was kind of clueless of them to
release the MZ 700 with color and predefined characters for some at the
time common games, but without hires mode and without any ability to
redefine the character set.

The IEC interface is here:
http://www.sharpmz.org/mz-700/mz1571.htm
I'll probably make that mod to my MZ731 some day.

Sorry for going a bit off-topic.


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