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I used to have a Romanian ZX 81 clone in the early 90s, on which I could somehow boot CP/M which was really not meant to run on that machine in which there was
by lkozma 16y ago
I used to have a Romanian ZX 81 clone in the early 90s, on which I could somehow boot CP/M which was really not meant to run on that machine in which there was an editor called tword that rendered characters in 4x7 pixels to have double column width (the native mode was 8x8 IIRC). A friend of mine hacked this editor to be able to display letters with acute accents so that we could write in Hungarian (he replaced some special characters). We were 11 or 12. I know, "cool story bro" :)
- rbanffy 16y agoCool story, bro :-) In Brazil we did similar things with accents, but Portuguese is no match for Hungarian in that regard. Also, my grandpa taught me Rovasirás and I made a font (Apple IIs had a nice hack for graphical fonts) for it. I would like to know more about that ZX-81-like computer. We had something like it here, one that could do 192x256 pixel graphics.
- lkozma 16y agoI had one of these: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=632 http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=632 then later this: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=629 http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=629 The second one mentions a Brasilian connection :) Yes, the resolution was the same.