Maintained by: Andrew Woods
I used the PC-E500 in the development of the Stereoscopic Video System at Curtin University. I wrote some software and developed some hardware for the PC-E500 which allowed it to communicate with and program IC's which use the Philips I2C (I squared C) two wire serial bus.
The full specifications of the PC-E500 are available here.
I have a range of information available for the PC-E500 incuding programs and manuals.
The following list represents most of the programs I have for my SHARP PC-E500. All of the programs are shareware or public domain. If you have any other programs for the SHARP PC-E500 which are not on this list, please send me a copy.
If you have any PC-E500 programs from Pockecom Journal, please send me a copy.
| PROGRAM |
DESCRIPTION |
| connect4 (2k) | The game of connect4 for two players. (in BASIC) |
| dumptool | A hex dump tool and also a machine code assembler. |
| Heavy metal mini | A shoot'em up game (something like defender). Written in machine code for really fast action! The best game on the E500. |
| Heavy metal 2 | The sequel for Heavy metal mini More levels and nastier enemies. The best game sequel on the E500. Also written in machine code. (13k) |
| lhex (4k) | A file compression program for the E500 (like lharc). Written in machine code. |
| register (3k) | A program which prints out the contents of the registers in the CPU. Written in machine code. |
| s_golf (6k) | A golf game program (I think) (in Basic). |
| tred | a screen editor written in machine code. Two versions available: tred104.zip (11k) and tred111.zip (9k) |
| tydisasm (3k) | a machine code disassembler. (Basic) |
| uudecode (15k) | a series of programs for uuencoding and uudecoding binary files (8 bit) <-> text files (7 bit) (basic and machine code) These files are useful because the SHARP PC-LINK Connector will only transfer 7 bit files. By Eiji Kako |
| vogue (122k) | A 'C' like compiler for the PC-E500 by Narihito Kon. Unfortunately the documents are in Japanese. (feel like converting them to English?) |
| xasm126 (48k) | a cross assembler. Documents are only in Japanese. |
| tydos (6k) | Documents only (only in Japanese). |
| kanje500 | A Kanji device driver for the E500. (if you want to display japanese characters on the screen of the E500). |
TEXT DOCUMENTS
| insttabl.txt | The full instruction table for the CPU of the PC-E500. Also relevant to some Sharp electronic organisers. |
| rs232-12.txt | How to build your own SHARP to PC serial conversion cable. What hardware to build and what software to use. This cable can also be used on the OZ/IQ-7200/8000 range of SHARP Wizards/electronic organisers (and others). The archive containing the circuit board files for this document is also available: "PCLNKPCB.ZIP" |
| dumptool | There is also some machine coding documentation available in the dumptool documentation mentioned in the programs listing above. |
RECENT (untested) SUBMISSIONS:
| artiller.bas | An artillery game written in basic by Mika Aronen of Finland (y95smiar@kotakk.fi). (6k) instructions: artiller.txt (2k) |
| technical.bas | A small technical program submitted by Rolf de Pietro of Switzerland (r_de_pietro@bluewin.ch). |
| stageman.zip | 9 basic programs submitted by Dirk Stagemann of Germany (Dirk_Stagemann@t-online.de). Some programs have Gernan text. The programs are: ascii.bas, aw.bas, dauerfes.bas, hangman.bas, inv-a.bas, martina.bas, mindmast.bas, test.bas & x1.bas. (PKZIP achive 6k, uncompressed 18k). |
| sgame.bas | A simple game written in basic by Jani Kleindienst (janik@comcom.si) <http://www.comcom.si/~janik/>. (4k) |
| edit500.zip | An ASCII-editor with many features (up to 254 characters per line, 39 visible, full screen horizontal scrolling, quick access to capitals, etc) by Matthias Schulte (matsch.bbs@dosis.uni-dortmund.de). |
| bascom.zip | A BASIC like compiler for the PC-E500. Written by Yoshikazu Takahashi (TORO) (ghe00667@nifty.ne.jp). Supplied by Sebastien Furic (sebastien.furic@tni.fr). |
Portacom, 1181 Hay Street, West Perth 6005, Australia
Phone: +61 8 9481 1565 . . . Fax: +61 8 9324 1259
WWW: http://www.portacom.com.au
Comments: They were selling the PC-E500S. They also have a 128kB Ram card for the PC-E500 and other optional hardware.
More News: [August 1, 2001] Portacom advises that the PC-E500S is still in production - they recently recieved new stock with a
June 2001 production date!
Yellow Computing, Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Strasse 1, D-74177 Bad Friedrichshall, GERMANY.
Phone: +49 7136 9511 0 . . . Fax: +49 7136 9511 11
WWW: http://www.yellow.de
Comments: The web site is in German. I don't know whether they sell the PC-E500 but they do sell some converters (Transfile).
Larry Berg, Purple Computing, 2048 Southside Road, Box 100, Murphy, OR 97533, USA.
Phone: "+1" 541 479 8087 Fax: 8089 Web: http://www.pfranc.com
Comments: sells 15pin connectors and possibly completed level converters.
Last Updated: 30 June 2005
Maintained by: Andrew Woods