Originally posted by Bob Dalek
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hold on now.. i'm not having that.. Clive is a good man .. i'd not be the geek i am today if it wasn't for my ZX Spectrum 128k+2, no sarcasm or nasty remarks towards Sir Clive
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Clive's a nonce, and everyone knows it.Originally posted by chef View Post
As for the ZX Spectrum 128k+2: my BBC Acorn wiped the floor with it, which is why I am now not having to consider working in the arctic climes of Scandinavia, but, rather, the sunny environs of sainted Hammersmith!
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The Z80AOriginally posted by Bob Dalek View PostClive's a nonce, and everyone knows it.
As for the ZX Spectrum 128k+2: my BBC Acorn wiped the floor with it, which is why I am now not having to consider working in the arctic climes of Scandinavia, but, rather, the sunny environs of sainted Hammersmith!
is a far superior processor to the 6502!
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Maybe it was the speccy's rubber buttons, or Jeff Minter's camel-infested silly games that made me hate it?Originally posted by Churchill View PostThe Z80A is a far superior processor to the 6502!Comment
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Jeff Minter is a nice guy. Even though he does have a penchant for Yaks and other large woolly mammals!Originally posted by Bob Dalek View Post
Tokenised Basic was the real problem with the speccy as far as I'm concerned. However, there's some sexy code in the ROM, particularly some of the maths stuff!Comment
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Surely Bob you're bordering on Libel!"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "
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Completely dissagree old dog.Originally posted by Churchill View PostThe Z80A is a far superior processor to the 6502!
If anything, the 6502 was the first RISC chip. The Z80 series as an 8080 with a load of cobbled-on old tat.
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You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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WHS... I think.Originally posted by bogeyman View PostCompletely dissagree old dog.
If anything, the 6502 was the first RISC chip. The Z80 series as an 8080 with a load of cobbled-on old tat.
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When I was writing games for a living we subcontracted some work to a bloke who claimed to be an ace C64 programmer.Originally posted by bogeyman View PostCompletely dissagree old dog.
If anything, the 6502 was the first RISC chip. The Z80 series as an 8080 with a load of cobbled-on old tat.
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See if you can spot the main problem with this fine bit of code he came up with:
Code:.add100points LDX #100 .loop CLC LDA scorelo ADC #1 STA scorelo LDA scorehi ADC #0 STA scorehi DEX BNE loop RTS
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