VZ200 / VZ300 / Laser210 / Laser310


Updated: Jan/2024

Newsletters, articles, software, music, games and everything else.


Other older page: bushy556.50megs.com/vz/index.html


*** HUGE shoutout and thanks to Andrew Laird for allowing me to use his domain for my little VZ website.

Video Technology is a company in downtown Hong kong that got into the electronics market way back in the mid-late 1970's. In 1982-1983 they created the best little 8-bit computer that has ever been created. Using the Zilog Z80A CPU and the Motorala 6847 video chip, they hit a winning streak that would win the world over. The worlds productivity increased two-hundred fold when these computers hit the market, and people started using them in their businesses, from the home/small office user, to IBM and WANG back in the day. A single VZ200 with the 16k RAM expansion ran all of Telstra's text messaging service for years when 1G and 2G GSM and CDMA was rife all throughout Australia. Optus was ahead of Telstra at the time, and they used a VZ300 for their text messaging services. True story.

VTECH released a few variations of these computers:

Standard specs : Z80A, 3.58MHZ, 2K Video RAM, 6847 video chip. 16K ROM.
Laser 100 and 110 : Microsoft TRS-80 Level I BASIC. All the rest contain Microsoft TRS-80 Level II BASIC, with hidden tokens for ~45 commands.
Computer  RAM
Laser 100    2K + 2k video
Laser 110    4K + 2k video
Laser 200    2K + 2k video
Laser 210 (a number of German units)    2k + 2k video
Laser 210    6k + 2k video
Texet-TX8000A    2k + 2k video
VZ200 (a number of German units)    2k + 2k video
VZ200    6K + 2k video
Smart-Alec Jr 100    6K + 2k video
Laser 305    2K + 2k video. (1)
Seltron    2K + 2k video (2)
Salarion Fellow    2K + 2k video
VZ300    16K + 2k video
VZ300    64K + 2k video. (3)


(1) The Laser 305 had the VZ300/Laser310 motherboard within the VZ200/Laser210 keyboard.
(2) The Seltron was a one off cost cutting design that had most parts of the VZ300/Laser310 within the VZ200/Laser210 keyboard.
(3) There have been two VZ300's found, that have 64k RAM + 2K video created from factory, each with a '66k' sticker on the base of the unit.

Youtube 2018AD is considered to be the best VZ/Laser demo to date.(by Five Finger Punch), which shows the capabilities of this little machine. Runs on 2kb VZ/Lasers.
Download the WAV and play it on your VZ200




# # # ALL SOFTWARE HERE # # #
# # # ALL German SOFTWARE HERE # # #
VZ/Laser Entire Software repositry Dec 2023. 700meg zip.


INDEX - to all Journals, Newsletters and published software. v20



NEWSLETTERS & JOURNALS

Hunter Valley VZ User Group

All HVVZUG covers here
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LE VZ OOP

VSoftwareZ (1984 - 1990)
LE OOP VZ 1
LE OOP VZ 2
LE OOP VZ 3
LE OOP VZ 4
LE OOP VZ 5
LE OOP VZ 6
LE OOP VZ 7
LE OOP VZ 8
LE OOP VZ 9
LE OOP VZ 10
LE OOP VZ 11
LE OOP VZ 12
LE OOP VZ 13
LE OOP VZ 14
LE OOP VZ 15
LE OOP VZ 16
LE OOP VZ 17
LE OOP VZ 18
LE OOP VZ 19
LE OOP VZ 20
LE OOP VZ 21
LE OOP VZ 22
LE OOP VZ 23
LE OOP VZ 24
LE OOP VZ 25
LE OOP VZ 26
LE OOP VZ 27
LE VZ OOP booklet - John DAlton



VZ Down Under

VZ Down Under 01 - missing
VZ Down Under 02 - missing
VZ Down Under 03 - missing
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VZ Newsletter

VZ Newsletter - Guy Thomason 1



Saphire Productions Disk Mag By Jason Oakley.

Saphire Productions Disk Magazine 01
Saphire Productions Disk Magazine 02
Saphire Productions Disk Magazine 03
Saphire Productions Disk Magazine 04



Interface - The Official Magazine of the VZ200 Users Group (1982 -1983)

Issue 1
Issue 2
Issue 3



Comput - Dick Smith Electronics (1984 - 1986)

Issue 1 - (Australia)
Issue 1 - (New Zealand)
Issue 2
Issue 3
Issue 4
Issue 5



Visual Display Unit (1984)

Missing - Issue 1
Missing - Issue 2
Missing - Issue 3
Issue 4



Ve Zee News (1984 - 1985)

Issue 1
Issue 2
Issue 3
Issue 4
Issue 5
Issue 6
Issue 7
Issue 8 (rar)
Issue 9
Issue 10
Issue 11
Issue 12



Lysco (1984 - 1986)

August September 1984
November 1984
November 1984 catalogue
January 1985
February/March 1985
March 1985
July/August 1985
August 1985
July 1986



Out West VZ200 Users Group (1984 ??)

Issue 1
Issue 2



Micro Magic:

Issue 1
Issue 2
Issue 3
Issue 4
Issue 5
Issue 6


Ad Lib Vee Zed Micro Club (1985 - 1986)

Welcome Letter
Sample Newsletter


Studio Ad Lib:

Issue 1
Issue 2
Issue 3
Issue 4
Issue 5
Issue 6



VZ & Laser Info

Info 2 and 3
Info 7
Info 8
Info 9
Info 10
Info 12



VZ COMPU 200/300 (1985 - 1986)

Issue 1
Issue 2
Issue 3
Issue 4



WAVZ User Group (1987)

Issue 1



ArchiVZ (1994 - 1995)


By Leslie Milburn
Issue 1
Issue 2
Issue 3
VZ Quick Reference Card



DSE VZ & SANYO Laser books and manuals:

Laser110 Instruction Manual.
Laser110 Basic Programs.
Laser110 Basic Programming Manual.
Laser210 Instruction Manual.
Laser210 16k Ram pack.
Laser210 Basic Programming Manual.

Contact me - Laser210 ROM Listing (German).
Contact me - Laser210 DOS ROM. (German)
Contact me - Laser210 BASIC. (German)
Contact me - Laser210 Tips and trick for beginners. Introduction to programming with circuit diagrams. (German)
Contact me - Laser210 Software SYstems Handbook 1 (German). Laser310 Operator Manual (Italian).

VZ200 Technical Manual. Complete single PDF.
VZ200 Technical Manual (zip).
VZ200 First book of games.
VZ200 Second book of games.
VZ200 Giant Book of games.
VZ200 Giant book of games (mediafire)
VZ200 PP40 Plotter manual.

VZ300 Technical Manual.
VZ300 Technical Manual 2.
VZ300 Technical manual (without circuit diagrams). Word 97. 447k
VZ300 Technical Reference Manual Diagrams (20 in all). size: 1872k
VZ300 Main Unit Manual
VZ300 main unit manual (mediafire)
VZ300 Giant Book of games.
VZ300 The Amazing VZ300 Omnibus (mediafire)
VZ300 The Amazing Omnibus Book - by Tim Hartnell
VZ300 Word Processor Cartridge Manual

VZ - Beginners guide to the VZ200/300 Editor Assembler. P.C.Schaper. 47pages. Gif files. 964k
VZ Assembly Programming for beginners
VZ Assembly Beginners guide - Shaper
VZ Assembly manual for Beginners - Steve Olney. Media fire. Link is now broken.
VZ Assembly Programming for Beginners - Steve Olney.
VZ Assembly Programming for Beginners - Steve Olney. (part 1. 2.5Mb TIF)
VZ Assembly Programming for Beginners - Steve Olney. (part 2. 2.6Mb TIF)
Zen & the Art of Assembly Language conversion (for the VZ) Book (Bushy, 2020)
VZ300 Expansion Mod.


SOFTWARE MANUALS

How to create sprites in the Sprite Generator.
Quick Write ][ Manual.
Manual - Copy Protect.
Manual - Disk Doctor.
Manual - Disk Tool Kit
Manual - VZ DOS.
Manual - Editor Assembler. (doc)
Manual - Editor Assembler. (htm)
Manual - Editor Assembler. (tif)
Manual - Editor Assembler - Diskops 4. Leslie Milburn.
Manual - Epson Printer Patch
Manual - EXT v12. (doc) (DOS Extended commands)
Manual - EXT v12. (rtf) (DOS Extended commands)
Manual - EXT v16. (txt) (DOS Extended commands)
Manual - FASTDISK.
Manual - First book of games.
Manual - LASER German books.
Manual - VZ Light Pen 1.
Manual - VZ Light Pen 2.
Manual - VZ Light Pen 3.
Manual - Assembly for Beginners. Steve Olney.
Manual - Quick Write II.
Manual - Second book of games.
Manual - Omnibus Book.



MAGAZINES

Laser210 Magazine 2018, by Pingo.

Laser Computer Club - Italy.

(Italy) Laser Computer Club 06 1986
(Italy) Laser Computer Club 03 1988
(Italy) Laser Computer Club 04 1988

MICRO 80.

MICRO 80 magazine (1984) - Various VZ listings and articles.

Bits & Bytes - New Zealand.


VZ Link - Christchurch VZ User Group, New Zealand

VZ Link newsletter. (73 issues. 1.2gig zip file)

Laser Info - Francea.

LASER INFO.Issue No.1 photo of cover. French Laser Magazine.
LASER INFO.Issue No.2 photo of cover. French Laser Magazine.

APC - Australian Personal Computer.


ETI - Electronics Today International.

ETI 1985 Nov - Steve Olney - Extended Basic review.
ETI 1984 Oct - Steve Olney - Extended Basic.
ETI 1985 May - Steve Olney - Hardware interrupt.
ETI 1984 Mar - Steve Olney - More Functions.
ETI 1986 Feb - Steve Olney - VZ200 expansion mod.
ETI 1986 Feb - Modifying the '200 16k Memory pack for the '300. Steve Olney. ETI Feb 1986. 1.6meg .ZIP
ETI 1988 Jun - Eprom Programmer for the VZ Part 1. H. Nacinovich. ETI June 1988. 2 meg .pdf
ETI 1988 Jun - Eprom Programmer for the VZ Part 2. H. Nacinovich. ETI June 1988. 500k .zip
ETI 1988 Jul - VZ Data Logger article. ETI July 1988
ETI 1986 Jul - VZ Chip 8 intperpreter. ETI July 86
ETI 1986 Aug - VZ Chip 8 editor. ETI Aug 86

EA - Electronics Australia.



AEM - Australian Electronics MOnthly.



Amateur Radio.

Amateur Radio 1985 Sep - VZ200 - Another RTTY - Butler
Amateur Radio 1986 Jan - VZ200 - Morse Code on the VZ200 - Butler
Amateur Radio 1987 Feb - VZ200 - VZ200 Morse Interface - Forester
Amateur Radio 1987 Mar - VZ200 - Feedline data calculations - Buhre
Amateur Radio 1988 Apr - VZ200 - Memory Expansion for VZ - Butler

TRS-80 II ROM References

Level II ROM Reference Manual
Programming the z80 3rd edition
Manual - TRS80 BASIC and other cool mysteries.



ARTICLES, REVIEWS, ADS & LETTERS:

VZ - Bob Kitch VZ Scrap Book part 1.zip (reduced)- Collection of all self written articles.
VZ - Bob Kitch VZ Scrap Book part 2.zip (reduced) - Collection of all self written articles.
VZ - Bob Kitch VZ Scrap Book part 1.zip (full) - Collection of all self written articles.
VZ - Bob Kitch VZ Scrap Book part 2.zip (full) - Collection of all self written articles.
History of the VZ
Review : Steve Olney - Extending VZ200 Basic
Review : Steve Olney - More Functions for the VZ200
Review : - Steve Olney - Article of Steve Olneys Extended Basic
Review : VZ200. Cash & Carry Computers. Your Computer, August 1983.
Review : VZ200. Creative Computing 1983. Photos of VZ200's being made at Video Technology. Page 1.
Review : VZ200. Creative Computing 1983. Photos of VZ200's being made at Video Technology. Page 2.
Review : VZ200. APC - April 1983.
Review : VZ200. ETI - July 1983.
Review : VZ200. NZ Bits & Bytes Sep 1983.
Review : VZ300. Electronics Australia. 1985-ish
VZ200 Warranty Card
Ad : VZ-300 - $99.00
Letter to the editor. Electronics Australia, March, 1985



Hardware.

VZ200 DEMONSTRATION Cartridge. RARE!
Article - VZ300 Expansion Module - Steve Olney
Article - VZ Hardware Interrupt - Steve Olney
Article - VZ Amp - Ben Hobson
Article - Compumuse - sound synth for the VZ
Article - VZ200 Super 2 Modifications - Mathew Sorrel
Article - VZ controlled robot.
Article - Real world interface with the VZ.
Article - VZ300 GA003 Repair guide, by Geradus.
Article - VZ300 GA004 Repair guide, by Geradus.
Article _ 128k RAM sideways Project part 1.
Article _ 128k RAM sideways Project part 2.
Article _ Super 2 mods.
Article _ Super 2 mods.
Article _ Super 2 mods - Graphics diagrams.zip
Article _ 128x96 improved graphics for VZ200.
Article _ Improved Graphics idea by Geradus
Article _ German 256x192 graphics mod. "German Mod"
Article _ German 256x192 graphics mod in English. "German Mod"
Article _ Joe Leon's super high graphics mod. part #1. "Australian Mod"
Article _ Joe Leon's super high graphics mod. part #2. "Australian Mod"
Article _ super high graphics mod. part #1. .DOC "Australian Mod"
Article _ super high graphics mod. part #1. .PDF "Australian Mod"
Article _ super high graphics mod. part #2. .DOC "Australian Mod"
Article _ super high graphics mod. part #2. .PDF "Australian Mod"
Article _ Mathhew Sorell Ultra Graphics Adaptor. .DOC "Australian Mod"
Article _ Mathhew Sorell Ultra Graphics Adaptor. .PDF "Australian Mod"
Article _ Mathhew Sorell Ultra Graphics Adaptor. .PDF "Australian Mod"
Circuit diagram VZ200 by Rhys Weatherley (2024)
Circuit diagram VZ200 RAM ROM by Rhys Weatherley (2024)
Circuit diagram VZ200 16K RAM pack by Rhys Weatherley (2024)
Circuit diagram VZ200 Printer Interface by Rhys Weatherley (2024)



1-bit Music for the VZ200/VZ300/Laser210/Laser310.

Note: Most should work on a real VZ / Laser. Some do require the 16k RAM pack.
All listed will work on the VZ emulator VZEM written by Guy Thomson.
(Right mouse-click and 'save-as' files)
All music ported by Bushy, originally written for the ZX Spetrum by both Shiru and Utz.

Earth Shaker musicbox.
Huby Music Box 1.
Huby Music Box 2.
Huby Music Box 3.
Huby Music Box 4.
ZX10 Music Box.
Theme from 1943 using the Huby engine.
Example using the LS Engine music player.
'Mental' song with the LS engine.
Another exmaple of another engine player.
8-channel music player.
"Catching up" by Squat player by Shiru. source code
"Just on Time" by Buzzkick player by Shiru or Utz. source code
Follin player example by Tim Follin fame. source code



DEMO STUFF:

Demo : Alien graphic with 1 bit music
Demo : Rotating LOL smiley face
Demo : Spinning Panda Bear with 1-bit music.
Demo : example of 'LORES' basic compiled 'LORES' BASIC program .VZ

Other music:

Circus - remix 0 .mp3
Circus - remix 2 .mp3
Circus - remix 3 .mp3
Circus - remix 4 .mp3
Various VZ sound stuff



ROM Stuff:

Disassembly of the VZs startup ROM routine. 12k Text.
Wanna see the ROM of the VZ in all of its glory? With info. 41k .zip



VIDEO:

- Video of Bouncing Ball. Awesome.
- Video of classic Windows Screensaver
- panic, wormhole and juggler
- in-cab VZ circus
- games remix 1
- games remix 2
- VZ Megademo
- galaxon
- ghost hunter
- Circus
- Dawn Patrol
- VZ200 & VZ300
- VZ juggler by intertek.
- VZ benchmarking by Intertek.
- VZ Hoppy.



SOFTWARE:

German VZ Computer club software Listing converted to English.

Basic Games - Collection of BASIC games
Conversion utils - Collection of conversion utilities
Demotape - Original VZ-200 Demo tape
Games - Collection of various games
Grafx - Collection of various graphic screenshots
VZ extended graphic screenshots
DEMO - Juggler and panic demo stuff
mess - Old version of MESS. Works though...
z88dk16 - Older version of Z88 dev kit. Works though.
Unix Utils - Various Unix utils that may be required for Z88DK
Utils - Collection of VZ utilities



CASSETTE INLAYS:






LINKS:

Links seem to come and go. What may be valid today becomes dead tomorrow.
Monty Stein's new VZ emulator
VZ alive, vzalive
VZ200 Wiki
VZ Wiki
PI emulator in VZ
VZ Pocket PC
Pics of internals
VZ
VZ
Archi VZ
A German fan's Laser site
Bushys way old VZ site
Z88DK development programming page
George Lui VZ's page
VZ page
VZ Java emulator
EmuCompBoy VZ page
VZ Page
VZ and Robots
MESS VZ page with manuals


Listings of other pages that may or may not be alive.


http://www.powerup.com.au/~intertek/VZ200/vz.htm
http://www.powerup.com.au/~intertek/VZ200/issue1.htm
http://members.rotfl.com/eggstasy
http://www.geocities.com/baja/dunes/6771/vz
http://www.oocities.org/baja/dunes/6771/vz/
http://www.50megs.com/bushy556/vz/hvvzug.html
http://www.zock.com/8-Bit/D_VTech.HTML 8 bit nirvana
http://www.computingmuseum.com/collection/laser.htm Laser 210/Laser 310
http://oldmachines.tripod.com/hun_vz200.htm
http://www.lithiumroms.f2s.com/roms/tosec/vtech.html
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/9723/other.html
http://www.zophar.net/vz.html
http://www.unnamedpcmuseum.com/dicksmith/default.htm
http://www.hc.de/hc_show_comp.php3?suche=vz200
http://www.rcroms.com/pages/emulation/emulateurs/ordinateurs/vtech_index.htm
http://www.homecomputer.de/pages/MachineInfo/DickSmith_VZ200.html
http://www.osfn.org/ricm/c-vz200.html
http://www.heimcomputer.de/comp/vz200.html
http://www.gwenjuemulation.com/m-vz200-vz300.html
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ssdm/computer_collection/dse/vz200.html
http://www.i-m.de/home/compmuseum/sonstige/vz200.htm
http://www.atari-computer.de/mjaap/computer/laser110.htm
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=447
http://pocket.free.fr/html/vtech/laser-50_f.html
http://www.trailingedge.com/~dlw/comp/texttemp.html?laser50
http://www.homecomputer.de/pages/MachineInfo/VTech_Laser_50.html
http://www1.raidway.ne.jp/~t-okubo/reda.html
http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/scripts/picshow2.php?image=/Museum/Adverts/texettx8000reviewp1.jpg
http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/scripts/picshow2.php?image=/Museum/Adverts/texettx8000reviewp2.jpg
http://utenti.multimania.it/STEVE75/laser.html
http://www.old-computers.com
http://gamma.nic.fi/~mikkohoo/peijoonit/fellow.htm
http://www.tuug.org/~jaakko/hardware.html
http://www.ntrautanen.fi/computers/index.htm
http://www.HomeComputer.de/pages/f_gallery.html
http://pkg.lugbs.linux.it/PACCHETTI/Mess-roms/CONTENTS/www.messroms.de/index.html
http://www.8bit-museum.de/
http://www4.tripnet.se/~pingo/laser210/
http://z88dk.sourceforge.net/
http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/z88dk/z88dkv1.33-src.tar.gz
http://bushy.vzalive.bangrocks.com/
http://vz.toseciso.org/
http://museum.vzalive.bangrocks.com/gallery
http://www.geocities.com/baja/dunes/6771/vz
http://www.oocities.org/baja/dunes/6771/vz/
http://www.vz200-online.de.vu/
http://www.wolkenkratzerhaus.de/VZ/
http://bushy.vzalive.bangrocks.com/
http://www.trickynz.com/VZ200.html
http://mess.toseciso.org/mess:drivers:vtech2
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&vid=2af05e7d-75c2-40e6-b515-6b9ef9f4d7ba
http://www.all2ezy.com/archivz/
http://vz200.ajlaird.id.au/wiki/index.php?title=Complete_Software_List
http://intertek00.customer.netspace.net.au/vz200/spdm02.zip
http://vz200.ajlaird.id.au/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://bilgisayarlarim.com/DickSmith/VZ_200/
http://users.on.net/~clockmeister/VZ300/
http://vz200.tripod.com/index.html
http://vz.toseciso.org/start



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All material here is still copyrighted back to the respective owners.

* Hunter Valley newsletters/journals are copyrighted by Gavin Williamson & Joe Leon - Editors and Publishes.
* VZ Down Under magazines are probably copyrighted still to Harry Huggins.
* VZ-200 and VZ-300 were copyrighted to Video Technology of down-town Hong Kong back in 1982 thru to around 1990.
* 12 volts was made possible by Mr Volta.
* Princess black and white TV's made by Princess. Most commonly used as a monitor by VZers. (false survey)
* Many many many thanks to Andrew Laird for letting me have this page on his domain. Appreciation always!
* Other random cheers go out to Benno, Jase, Guy, Plastered Walrus, James D, Jergen, Leslie 1 & 2 for VZ stuff over the years.

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Updated: Jan/2024



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