On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 08:37:42AM +0000, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:57:15 -0500 > "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote: > > Hello Douglas, > > > Anybody remember the Timex/Sinclair 1000? It has a pure membrane > > AKA the Sinclair ZX-81, in the UK. First computer I owned. I remember those (US). THere was a lot of competition between all of us (this was 8th - 11th grade for me) with those kids who had the Atari based rigs being all uppity about their games or something, and us C-64 kids being all uppity about the fact that we could swap the whole OS into ram and start rewriting the BASIC interpreter. 6502/6510 assembler was pretty straightforward as well and a lot of us started really playing around with that. As I recall, I typed in an assembler written in BASIC to build my first assembler program. And then the sprites -- that was a lot of fun too. YOu could map the sprite anywhere in memory you wanted and just change the pointer -- simple effective animation by just updating that pointer every few ticks. Sorry, I got off track there. The Timex... hmmm... some kid had one but I don't think anyone ever got it to do anything interesting. I remember that the keyboard was hideous though. A
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