I don't want to be hyper critical of others, especially when It is obvious that there intent is good, but I found The Sharp Users Club's control of MZ-80K software to be somewhat restrictive. I was surprised that their collection was still all cassette based, and that there was no, or at best, very slow movement towards digitizing their collection. I feel that they are still living in the 1990’s. I was also surprised by the seemingly frequent purging of their collection to remove programs that they didn't feel were worthy. I'm curious what the criteria is for removal of programs, and who makes the final decision. Although I was a member for a few years, and really enjoyed getting a physical club magazine in the mail. I was ultimately left feeling a little disappointed. I decided to circumnavigate the club altogether and free my life up a little by creating my own library. It's surprising how you can amass a relatively large collection of software by scouring the net, asking around, sending emails, sharing, and the occasional purchase on auction sites. I started my MZ-80 software collection, and completed it (although these things are never ever complete) this way and I have grown the collection considerably…So I thought it was about time to share.

As usual you can download everything from my FTP site. Mostly for my own reference I have organized the collection into a few specific categories:

FROM OTHER COLLECTORS

A collection of programs I received from another collector after sharing my collection with him.

FROM YAHOO AUCTION CASSETTES

As you can imagine these are cassettes that I won from Yahoo Auction Japan and are divided into MACHINE CODE and BASIC.

GAMES

Programs found from various locations and are divided into MACHINE CODE and BASIC.

LANGUAGE & UTILS

Programs found from various locations and are divided into MACHINE CODE and BASIC.

KUMA CASSETTES

A collection of cassettes I got from an ex MZ-80 user in the UK that were all branded under the Kuma label.

I have converted all the cassettes to both .m12 and .wav, so they can be used on both real MZ-80K machines and in emulators.

One interesting find is BASIC SP-5035 which was from one of the cassettes I got from Yahoo Auction. I have never heard of this version of Basic and I can't find any reference to it online. Another interesting find is that in my collection there are 5 different versions of Space Invaders.

Finally, I do have more programs in various formats that have not been tested, sorted or converted, and I hope to find time in the future to organize these too.

Enjoy, and if you have any MZ-80K programs you would like to share, then please fire me an email.

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