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ZX-81 here ! I burned all my birthday savings in one shot for it. And learned Z80 assembler (only way to have some (relative) speed with it)
by JeanMarcS 7y ago
ZX-81 here ! I burned all my birthday savings in one shot for it.
And learned Z80 assembler (only way to have some (relative) speed with it)
- jeffreygoesto 7y agoFun times! Space invaders in 1k Z80 assembly, stored in a BASIC REM statement, using the display memory as "internal state"... Later I added 16k RAM, eventually the "HighRes" Graphics card and last but not least the thermo printer.
- JeanMarcS 7y agoNever had the printer, but that big tall black box graphic card yes!
- jaclaz 7y agoI win (but I am older) ZX-80! (and yes you had to actually solder components to get the thingy be able to run a sort of pong in 1 KB). The thing that remained stuck in my memory (common to all Sinclair users) is the sound of the cassette loading and (many years later) that of modems trying to connect to this or that BBS.