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MZF-Studio  Version 2.4

Copyright (C) 2005-2011 Ulrich Keller

Brief instruction

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General
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With MZF-Studio MZF-files can be viewed, edited and converted. A MZF-file 
contains a file from computers of the MZ-series by the manufacturer Sharp. 

The following conversions are possible: 
MZT-file ==> MZF-file 
WAV-file ==> MZF-file 
MZF-file ==> MZT-file 
MZF-file ==> WAV-file 

MZT-files are used by several Sharp-MZ-emulators. 

The abovementioned WAV-files are common Windows-audiofiles. These files contain 
a special rushing which is in normal cases recorded from a Sharp-MZ-datasette 
(conversion WAV-file ==> MZF-file) or is to be recorded to a Sharp-MZ-datasette 
(conversion MZF-file ==> WAV-file). 

Further informations concerning the Sharp-MZ-series can be found for example at 
the internet-site www.sharpmz.org by Karl-Heinz Mau. 


Operating hints 
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The usage of MZF-Studio has been designed self-illustrative as far as possible. 
Therefore in the following just some hints: 

Hexadecimal numbers are displayed in MZF-Studio with a leading dollar-character 
($) and must be entered in the same way. 

MZ-specific characters, which do not exist on a Windows-PC, are displayed in 
MZF-Studio as question-marks (?). As long as the affected fields (e. g. the MZ-
filename) are not edited the MZ-specific characters are preserved. 

Problems converting a WAV-file into a MZF-file are often caused by bad 
recording quality of the WAV-file. The WAV-file should be recorded ideally with 
one channel (mono), with a precision of 8bit and with a sample-rate of 22050Hz. 
To avoid tiny drop-outs in the WAV-file, no other program should run on the PC 
while recording the WAV-file.


Restrictions
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Only MZF-files with a datasette-header are supported. Other headers (e. g. 
QuickDisk-header) are not supported.

Furthermore only MZF-files with one of the following MZ-file-attributes (MZ-
file-types) are supported: 
 - Machine-language-program ($01) 
 - MZ-80 BASIC-program ($02) 
 - MZ-700/800 BASIC-program ($05) 

Even if other MZ-file-attributes can by used during editing a MZF-file, these 
file-attributes will NOT be specially taken into account while loading, saving 
or converting a MZF-file. 
Especially the use of the MZ-file-attributes 
 - MZ-80 BASIC-data-file ($03)      or 
 - MZ-700/800 BASIC-data-file ($04) 
causes the problem of generated WAV-files which cannot be loaded by a Sharp-MZ-
maschine. 


Terms of use 
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This program is FREEWARE, but it must not be used commercially. 


System requirements 
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MZF-Studio requires one of the following operating systems: 
 - Microsoft Windows 95 or newer 
 - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 or newer 


Installation and uninstallation 
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MZF-Studio needs no installation or uninstallation. 


Starting MZF-Studio 
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MZF-Studio can be started by executing the file MZFStudio.exe. 

While executing the file MZFStudio.exe an optional command-line-parameter can 
be passed, which contains the filename of a MZF-file. This MZF-file will be 
opened during the start of the program automatically. 


Contact to the author 
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E-mail: NachtHacker@gmx.de
Internet: www.NachtHacker.de
All suggestions, comments and bug reports concerning this program are welcome! 


Disclaimer 
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The author of this program (Ulrich Keller) is NOT liable for any kind of damage 
in connection with this program.
He also does NOT guarantee anything in connection with this program.