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The general articles and the Z88-to-BBC articles and software were originally published in The Micro User in the late 1980's. The Micro User is long gone, replaced by the admirable Acorn User so I thought that, given the small amount of Z88 stuff on the 'net I ought to put the articles here, together with the software (which originally readers had to type in by hand - how times have changed) described in the articles. The articles were written for a BBC micro magazine so they tend to compare the Z88 to the BBC, but there is still a lot of generally useful information.

Another useful Z88 resource site, with support for a broader range of link software and programming utilities, is Z88 Forever.

All of the BBC micro programs are available to download in either Risc OS Spark form or in PC .zip files.

These two items of software allow files to be transferred from Acorn RiscOS computers to and from a Z88 using a suitable lead, described in the linked documentation. The software is available for download in zip file format which can be unpacked on RiscOS machines with Sparkfs, Spark or Sparkplug (which is a self extracting version - simply download, save, retype the file as Basic and double click on it).