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Shit I'd love: minimal slip/ppp over serial enough to run a gopher client with a Jupiter ACE and some RAM expansion (16k or 32k). If a Speccy can be connected
by anthk 2y ago
Shit I'd love: minimal slip/ppp over serial enough to run a gopher client with a Jupiter ACE and some RAM expansion (16k or 32k).
If a Speccy can be connected to the internet with a Gopher client...
A small IRC would he half useful too.
- qingcharles 2y agoMight as well go the full insanity.. if you can get it work on the ACE, then surely you can make it work on a ZX81 with a rampak? I remember as a kid in the 80s writing a program in BASIC to get my Spectrum 128 to connect over serial to my Sirius 1 PC so my buddy and I could have a chat application across my bedroom. Wild times.
- anthk 2y agoForth was and it's much faster than Basic sadly.
- pjmlp 2y agoReal BASIC, the one invented at Dartmouth, was compiled to native before execution and relatively fast for the hardware. It was fitting BASIC into 8 bit home computers limited hardware that gave fame to its slowness, given the interpreter approach. By the 16 bit days having access to compilers was already not an issue. It was Turbo BASIC that started my journey as happy Borland customer.
- Zardoz84 2y agoThere was a Twitter client for ZX Spectrum, using Spectranet