{"id":8,"date":"2018-04-18T14:46:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T14:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2018-04-18T15:20:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T15:20:59","slug":"sharp-mz700-mzf-files-back-to-wav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Sharp MZ700 MZF files back to WAV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first home computer was a Sharp MZ700 and I recently acquired one again. When I got it home I realised apart from the S-Basic tape that came with the purchase I had nothing else to load on it..\u00a0and plus&#8230; ITS TAPE ONLY&#8230; it got me thinking that I have a tape emulator built on a Arduino Nano for the ZX81 I have and thought\u00a0there must be a way to get more apps on this MZ. I knew that there is a backup of most of the old tapes in the interest in MZF format..\u00a0I also found a command-line tool to convert MZF files back to WAV &gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jfjlaros\/mzf2wav\">HERE<\/a>&lt; and it gave me an idea&#8230; what if I developed a tool with a GUI that contained most of the MZF files, allowed you to convert them to WAV but play them from the same tool through your PC audio using a mono audio cable into the MZ700&#8230; And that is exactly what I did..\u00a0Watch this video to see it in action, its pretty cool &gt;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iwD3-5ENyE8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you want to try the tool you can find it &gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rickyelqasem\/MZF2WAVGUI\">here<\/a>&lt;<\/p>\n<p>The story doesn&#8217;t end here&#8230; I have a new idea to build this concept into the MZ itself&#8230; watch this space&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first home computer was a Sharp MZ700 and I recently acquired one again. When I got it home I realised apart from the S-Basic tape that came with the purchase I had nothing else to load on&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/?p=8\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,12,9,10],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sharp","tag-mzf2wav","tag-mzf2wavgui","tag-sharp-mz","tag-tape-emulator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}