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Sharp PC-G850VS
10-03-2020, 03:20 PM (This post was last modified: 10-19-2020 02:40 AM by robve.)
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RE: Sharp PC-G850VS
I highly recommend searching for a Sharp CE-126P printer and cassette interface for the PC-G850VS, e.g. on eBay. This interface allows you to use your PC or Mac to write programs and load them in the PC-G850VS using the bas2img and bin2wav programs.

For example from a MacOS terminal:

$ ./bas2img --pc=G850VS --level=8 program.bas
$ ./bin2wav --pc=G850VS program.img
$ afplay program.wav

This converts the basic program to tokenized form, produces the wav file for the tokenized program, and plays the wav file on the headphone output connected to the EAR port of the CE-126P. Execute BLOAD on the PC-G850VS to load the program then play the wav file. You may have to turn up the volume to make this work, though I have not had any issues or failures to load programs.

The bas2img and bin2wav programs are available in source code from:

http://www.peil-partner.de/ifhe.de/sharp/

These programs work for a wide variety of Sharp pocket computers.

You can also save files to your PC or Mac in binary form with wav2bin.

I noticed a minor issue with a missing function. I submitted the fixes to the maintainer.

While working on a fix, I found some hidden (undocumented) functions:

' MDF forces truncation of values as specified by USING:
10 USING "###.##": X = MDF 1.23456789: USING: PRINT X ' prints 1.23

' DMS$ returns degrees, minutes seconds string:
20 PRINT DMS$ 10.12

' HDCOPY appears to print the screen to a printer (but not the CE-126P)
' https://translate.google.com/translate?h...ch&pto=aue
30 HDCOPY

' SPOUT and SPINP commands
40 SPOUT X,Y,...
50 SPINP X,Y,...

I could not find any information on SPOUT and SPINP. Perhaps "SP" refers to "Serial Port"? Any ideas?

==> *EDIT 10/18/20*: in addition, I just found this site https://tmfg.jp/products/detail/84 that sells USB connectors for the PC-G850.

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Sharp PC-G850VS - Zaphod - 04-16-2018, 08:49 AM
RE: Sharp PC-G850VS - grsbanks - 04-16-2018, 08:58 AM
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RE: Sharp PC-G850VS - mfleming - 04-16-2018, 02:16 PM
RE: Sharp PC-G850VS - Zaphod - 04-16-2018, 09:31 AM
RE: Sharp PC-G850VS - Helix - 04-16-2018, 02:33 PM
RE: Sharp PC-G850VS - mfleming - 04-16-2018, 06:39 PM
RE: Sharp PC-G850VS - Zaphod - 04-16-2018, 07:02 PM
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RE: Sharp PC-G850VS - mfleming - 04-30-2018, 06:08 PM
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RE: Sharp PC-G850VS - Zaphod - 05-02-2018, 10:48 AM
RE: Sharp PC-G850VS - mfleming - 05-02-2018, 03:46 PM
RE: Sharp PC-G850VS - Zaphod - 05-02-2018, 08:50 PM
RE: Sharp PC-G850VS - Helix - 05-02-2018, 10:44 PM
RE: Sharp PC-G850VS - Zaphod - 05-03-2018, 07:29 AM
RE: Sharp PC-G850VS - rprosperi - 05-03-2018, 12:56 PM
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RE: Sharp PC-G850VS - Eddie W. Shore - 07-12-2018, 02:06 PM
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RE: Sharp PC-G850VS - mfleming - 07-12-2018, 01:51 AM
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RE: Sharp PC-G850VS - Helix - 07-26-2018, 10:40 AM
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RE: Sharp PC-G850VS - jwhsu - 08-01-2018, 09:42 PM
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