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I 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 t
by lovelearning 12y ago
I 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.