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CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …
... /> -In Spain they have a BASIC compo every year, and the ... with their own TK95 and ZX81 forums etc...
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mea culpa!I have just sent Digital Prawn another entry for CCG 2008 which might shock a few people! It is a program which emulates a Commodore Vic 20 - yes, yo…
... and knew little about CBM BASIC. I did hope that it ... use it to enter CBM BASIC programs!
After writing ... (if only Sinclair allowed the ZX81 to have redefinable characters too ... 50 MHz). You can type BASIC programs in on this emulator ... -
Minigamecomp vs CGCHow come so many of you join the CGC and so few (me and Yerzmyey from WoS and Beyker) join the Minigamecompo? Personally I think that Yerzmyey's ZX…
... require effort. Notice how few ZX81/80/Ace entries there are ... VIC 20 in glorious CBM Basic 2 using "Twenty Commodes"...
Bresenham's line algorithmHelp - I really am struggling to get my head around this algorithm. I don't know why, I coped with Cordic (SIN/COS) and integer divide routines (/10 …
... prototype ZX81 ROM and although both were pulled there is a BASIC ... program in the ZX81 manual to draw ...I just learnt that Spectrum has 1kB of unused ROMWell, man learns through all his life. I have just discovered that Spectrum has over 1 kilobyte of unused ROM memory, from address 14446 to 15615. Al…
... network, but as with the ZX81 Sinclair shipped the machine before ... to my article on Sinclair BASIC on the Sinclair tech wiki ...Minigame compo 2008What happened to the compo site 2007 and the pre-announcement 2008? The site seems to be down.
... lot of slack. Even batari BASIC is a fair bit harder ... suggest.
[QUOTE]The ZX81 game was also a 1K ...Which computer is most similar to Zx Spectrum?I have wondered recently wihch other 8-bit computer is most of all similar to Zx Spectrum. I mean similar graphics, similar gameplay, similar program…
... user-definable characters. Even the ZX81 could do better, albeit not ... very cut down version of BASIC and you can practically count ...1K ZX ChessIt's a great surprise to discover that there were a guy who programmed a chess game for the ZX81 with only 1K! of memory. His name was David Horne. …
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Too big for a BASIC one-liner? [img]http://i77 ...1K ZX ChessIt's a great surprise to discover that there were a guy who programmed a chess game for the ZX81 with only 1K! of memory. His name was David Horne. …
... same sense that most ZX81 games do given that ... say, text on the ZX81 really is graphics. I ... achieved Chess in a BASIC oneliner yet because of ... game used the entire ZX81 screen implies that there ... with similar limitations of the ZX81 game. That is something ...ZX81 tape formatIs there a description of it somewhere? The TZX format doesn't give it but can it be worked out from what it says about block 19? There is a good d…
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And the ZX81 rom disassembly:
[url ... QUOTE]Cassette Signals
ZX81 Cassette File Structure
x ... the system area, the basic program, the video memory, ...TAP filesI'm trying to figure out how to make TAP files and am none the wiser. Tried downloading Taper, got it working but it was one of the unfathomables. I …
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A BASIC program + CODE (+ UDGs + character set ... BASIC program area - eg. as had to be done on the ZX81 ... be EDITed or LISTed from BASIC; so it simplifies the SAVE ...QL 25th Anniversary TODAYJust saw this on CSS: Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:36:53 +0100 From: Urs Koenig Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair Subject: SINCLAIR QL's 25th birthday On…
... stretching things. For starters the ZX81 had an even more economical ... ), years later Microsoft's Visual Basic closed the gap.
BASIC both of which came first ... a superficial resemblance to Visual BASIC.
7. Even only ...25 years with the SpectrumTo paraphrase JFK, ask not what your Spectrum can do for you, but what you can do for your Spectrum. Well I've done quite a bit since I joined the sc…
... Technical Wiki
* BASIC:
* ColorPRINT (Timex mode 2 ... the 'New functions for Sinclair BASIC' thread
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* Add ZX80, ZX81 and Jupiter ACE support to ... Grant and Steve Vickers (ZX80/ZX81)
* Andrew Wright ( ...The Life Of The ZX81I was thinking about this on my way to work this morning? What if the Spectrum had come out in late ?84 or even 1985? Would the ZX81 have had a longe…
... disagree I’m afraid. The ZX81 was my first machine and ... learnt to program in both BASIC and Machine Code on that ... />
I was given a ZX81 only last year from someone ...The Life Of The ZX81I was thinking about this on my way to work this morning? What if the Spectrum had come out in late ?84 or even 1985? Would the ZX81 have had a longe…
[QUOTE=itsallgood;338220]The ZX81 was my first machine and ... learnt to program in both BASIC and Machine Code on that ...The Life Of The ZX81I was thinking about this on my way to work this morning? What if the Spectrum had come out in late ?84 or even 1985? Would the ZX81 have had a longe…
ZX81 was my first computer too... ... we had to write little basic programs etc.
Never ... I sure did on the ZX81...I even invented my own ...Who Are You Guys..... ???I'm curious to learn about the guys (and no doubt gals) who keep this forum alive. Were you all Spectrum-heads from the start? Did any of you come la…
... Christmas 1982, having sold my ZX81 to someone locally. Did a ... ? although nothing too serious, mainly BASIC extensions, ROM tweaks, etc. Also ...Who Are You Guys..... ???I'm curious to learn about the guys (and no doubt gals) who keep this forum alive. Were you all Spectrum-heads from the start? Did any of you come la…
... create my own games in Basic and kept using my Spectrum ... also a fan of the ZX81 and Timex computers, but not ...Home Computing WeeklyIssue 15 seems to have 4 extra images that are duplicates of the previous four. HomeComputingWeekly01500049.jpg HomeComputingWeekly01500050.jpg HomeC…
... ,002,25,Starship,Dominic Stocqueler,ZX81
830315,002,25 ... ,Domestic Accounts Program,George Baldwin,ZX81
830322,003,34 ... 830412,006,31,ZX81 Micro Bowls,Timothy Lowe,ZX81
830419, ... ,ZX81
830419,007,16-17,listing from Exploring Spectrum BASIC ...Home Computing WeeklyIssue 15 seems to have 4 extra images that are duplicates of the previous four. HomeComputingWeekly01500049.jpg HomeComputingWeekly01500050.jpg HomeC…
... 18,Simon ,Philip Moriarty,ZX81
831206,040,18 ... Space Run ,Philip Moriarty,ZX81
831206,040,18 ... ZX Pontoon ,Philip Moriarty,ZX81
831206,040,22 ... 32-33,Salvage,Ray Elder,ZX81 & ZX Spectrum
BASIC (String Slicing),R A ...If Money Was No Object - Would You Have Bought A SpectrumTruthfully, at the time you bought your first ZX Spectrum, would you have bought something different if money was no object. Don't get me wrong - I …
... Level 2 BASIC at the local elementary school. Loved the zx81, hated ... grown to really like the zx81's quirks. The first thing ... had to do with the zx81.If Money Was No Object - Would You Have Bought A SpectrumTruthfully, at the time you bought your first ZX Spectrum, would you have bought something different if money was no object. Don't get me wrong - I …
... the early years - it's Basic ran faster, it had a ... on more as a colour ZX81 than a Spectrum contender. It ...speccy games at your school?this will probably only apply to those of us who were at school from say 82 to 92ish (guessing thats the majority of people here?). anyway did your…
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Although I had a ZX81 and Spectrum at home, I ... some software for it in BASIC - we each had a tape ...If Money Was No Object - Would You Have Bought A SpectrumTruthfully, at the time you bought your first ZX Spectrum, would you have bought something different if money was no object. Don't get me wrong - I …
... , I think. I liked the basic, and the built-in assembler ... /> I started out with a zx81, moved to speccy (48k then ...1st Edition Spectrum BASIC ManualWasn't there someone here who was after a 1st Edition of the Spectrum BASIC Programming manual? I seem to recall someone offering me money for mine …
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It uses the ZX81 system variables instead of the ... introduction booklet built into the basic programming book, so rather than ...1st Edition Spectrum BASIC ManualWasn't there someone here who was after a 1st Edition of the Spectrum BASIC Programming manual? I seem to recall someone offering me money for mine …
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Mike Lord - a proficient ZX81 programmer - said that the one ...What's the deal with JetPac?The instant I saw it back in the day I thought to myself "Well, that's crap ... colourful but crap nonetheless" ... and I still feel that way about t…
... a ton of crap out, basic games, just some pretty poor ... then) were still saying the zx81 had a future alongside Spectrum ...Goldfinch - an open software stack for mass storageYep, another pet project of mine to compete with all the others I've started. But hey, if I didn't get distracted by things like this I'd just get di…
... groups. The first group is basic i/o, another group direcory ... include character set translation (think zx81), etc. So it would be ...Open82 v2009-01-13 releasedI'm pleased to announce a new release of Open82, the GPL-licenced replacement Spectrum ROM formerly known as OpenZXRom. [url]http://sourceforge.net/…
... to port over from the ZX81 would be the parser, because ... and is dependent on various ZX81-specific things (the character set ... parser code available in SE Basic that can be reused. But ...What? ?366.00 for an Ace!Over the top price paid here, just a silly amout. [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270432107397&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBUAA:…
... was basically a ZX81 with Forth instead of Basic, and I think ...
