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My parents bought the family a 48k spectrum back in the day, and the cassette deck didn't work. It being the 80s all the shops were closed for the Christmas pe
by stevekemp 12y ago
My parents bought the family a 48k spectrum back in the day, and the cassette deck didn't work. It being the 80s all the shops were closed for the Christmas period.
I learned to program (BASIC) via the big orange manual that came with the machine. A week or two later I was happy to play Hungry Horace, etc, but I kept up the programming, eventually moving to z80 assembly, then later PCs.
- lovelearning 12y agoI absolutely remember Hungry Horace even now! Once I came across a Sega racing game that was a magnitude faster than anything I'd seen till then. In a quest to find its secret, I discovered something known as "Z80 machine code" in a spectrum magazine. The very phrase sent me into raptures of imagination for some reason, and that's how I too ended up learning assembly language :D. Truth be told, I never again felt the raw adrenaline rush that coding the Speccy gave me, so I do remember it with a great deal of nostalgia. Thankfully, I still have my speccy in seemingly tiptop shape, and it looks like the only thing I have to do to get it to work with my current TV is desolder an RF cable from the TV out. I look forward to it :)
- stevekemp 12y agoI wish you luck! These days I don't have any genuine hardware, but I have a small collection of Z80 assembly language books, and old manuals. I play games such as "Chaos", R-Type, etc under emulation, and remember my claim to fame - getting POKEs/hacks listed in print-magazines. The good thing for me was that Z80 and Intel assembly were so close that I had a good head-start.