retrocomputing ephemera

I was talking to Derek of Extreme Kits at the RC2014 Assembly 2.0 about having to underclock the Pico 2 for the MZ-80K and MZ-80A emulations in the Pico MZ.

This is the first release of Pico MZ in 2026.

When the RC2014 assembly 2.0 was announced for Saturday 26th September 2026 at The National Museum of Computing, I decided to sign up as an exhibitor to give the first public outing of my Pico MZ Emulator.

It’s rained nearly every day since the start of 2026 in Devon.

At the end of September I attended the first RC2014 assembly at The National Museum of Computing.

This year’s Advent of Code was reduced to 12 days of puzzles.

When I first started thinking about writing an emulator for the Sharp MZ-80K in September 2024, I decided that I was only going to attempt that model and no more. 15 months later (and a surprising RetroChallenge 2024/10 win)1 and here I am with an MZ-80A…

I’m making decent progress with adding MZ-700 emulation to the Pico MZ.

Autumn is here, so it means that the Caterham is SORNed until the spring, giving me time to tinker with some retrocomputing projects.

I was recently sent a copy of Knight’s WEE FORTRAN by Sharpworks who had rescued it from a tape belonging to HereBeDragons.

I’ve been working through a number of ideas to produce a Monster Chase / Robots hybrid for Sharp MZ series computers.