On Thursday 04 October 2007 05:41:15 Amos Shapira wrote:
> My personal first *owned* was a ZX Spectrum 48k (and not long ago I threw
> away the book of the source code of its ROM).
>
> --Amos
I just installed Spectmu on my laptop.
http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/spectemu/spectemu.html
Now, I'm loo
On Thursday 04 October 2007 06:24:22 Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> > Actually it was not the case for all of those little boxes. Is the reason
> > why I then decided to have a ZX Spectrum :)
> >
> >
>
> Exqueeze me? Are you saying you could program the graphic characters
> without doing any direct mem
Julian Daich wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 October 2007 10:27:32 Amos Shapira wrote:
>
>> You needed "poke" and "pick"(sp?) to do ANYTHING on those boxes, as far as
>> I remember ( a good intro to computer hardware, as you learned about CPU
>> port numbers in no time :).
>>
>
> Actually it was n
On 03/10/2007, Julian Daich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 03 October 2007 10:27:32 Amos Shapira wrote:
> > You needed "poke" and "pick"(sp?) to do ANYTHING on those boxes, as far
> as
> > I remember ( a good intro to computer hardware, as you learned about CPU
> > port numbers in no t
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 10:27:32 Amos Shapira wrote:
> You needed "poke" and "pick"(sp?) to do ANYTHING on those boxes, as far as
> I remember ( a good intro to computer hardware, as you learned about CPU
> port numbers in no time :).
Actually it was not the case for all of those little boxes
"Amos Shapira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As for Shachar's comment that he doesn't think that the AppleWorks
> was writen entirely in assembler (I didn't follow the entire
> discussion but that's the gist I got from this part of it) -
> personally I'd expect it was actually writen in Assembler.
On 03/10/2007, Julian Daich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 03 October 2007 09:52:34 Michael Tewner wrote:
> > I remember when the C128 came out with Sprites - efficient basic
> > animations. Ah... Those were the days.
>
> Sprtites( 2D hardware acceleration) were also included in the C6
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 09:52:34 Michael Tewner wrote:
> I remember when the C128 came out with Sprites - efficient basic
> animations. Ah... Those were the days.
Sprtites( 2D hardware acceleration) were also included in the C64 and its
1980's predecessor Vic20. However there were no BASIC n
