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Happy Birthday ZX Spectrum
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Oh the joys of 2 colours per 8 pixel square and raspy sound effects!
Not forgetting inserting a machine code "ret" command to bypass the fast loader.
Brings a tear to the eye
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Happy birthday Speccy!'Orwell's 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual'. -
Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch.Comment
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Originally posted by SantaClaus View Post[Geek mode on]
Oh the joys of 2 colours per 8 pixel square and raspy sound effects!
Not forgetting inserting a machine code "ret" command to bypass the fast loader.
Brings a tear to the eye
[Geek mode off]
Happy birthday Speccy!Comment
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Originally posted by suityou01 View PostMy father told me that the spectrum was born when Sir Clive got his mitts on a batch of damaged Z80 chips originally intended for washing machine programmes. Half the chip was blown, but half usable. The ZX Spectrum was designed around the working half.
Urban myth?Comment
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Started off with a zx81 and added a 16k ram pack.
Moved to a Spectrum 48k but also bought a C64 which I preferred cos I wrote a sequencer accessing the sound chip on board. Actually gigged that baby plugged into the PA system playing bass lines - way before Thomas Dolby et al appeared on stage with a computer and cheap telly.
Had a QL and Spectrum+ too as well as a wee printer using thermal paper that used to go black after a while.Comment
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Originally posted by SupremeSpod View PostC9Will work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostI can't remember the others, but C9 sticks in my head. Though that was from the Oric-1, because we were middle class and only common people had speccys.
C9 on a Z80 is "Ret" or "Return"Comment
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