Hatsune Miku movie on Sharp MZ-700. Possibly made by Ugeo in 2007 (at least the last image, which is here). via
Tag Archives: MZ-700
This week is dedicated to the Japanese Sharp MZ computer series (1982-1985). It was very popular to use it for textmode graphics. It is technically similar to PETSCII (see here) and ANSI, but it usually looks quite different.
The difference is not so much caused by the linguistic symbols (like Shift-JIS vs occidental ASCII). In fact, the character set doesn’t seem to have many Japanese characters and they are rarely used for graphics (like with ANSI). Instead, the visual difference is caused by the “semigraphical” characters. And of course, by the cultural conditions (hello anime).
Each character can have different background and foreground colour (like ANSI), so it’s possible to work with fine details and also complex shading using the ▒-sign.
GIFs from: M-700 & Mysterious man Prints (怪奇版画男), a character created by Ki Nao Karasawa in the 1990s, and from here.
More MZ-700: http://text-mode.tumblr.com/tagged/mz-700
EUGEA, a game by Kazuhiro Furuhata for MZ-700, 1989/2003. Image from the online MZ-700 emulator MZ MEMORIES by Takeshi Maruyama, made in Java, Actionscript and Flash, made around 2003, it seems.
Post updated in 2024.
Tarot by Takeshi Sugimoto in the 1990’s.
紅茶羊羹さんのアイコン、モノクロだから習作に丁度良いかなと思って描き始めてみたら無謀だと言う事に気付いた。 似てない(´A｀) #MZ700 #キャラグラ pic.twitter.com/bX2HkYOpsP
— チョコ山 (@MtChocolate)
Happy new year greetings in MZ-700 SharpSCII by Youkan, 2014. More Youkan here.
C64 vs MZ-700. This is Mikulas vs. Krampusz originally made in PETSCII by Hermit (below), converted to MZ-700’s textmode by Marq (above).