Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!aioe.org!news-transit.tcx.org.uk!feeder.erje.net!nuzba.szn.dk!pnx.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: spike1@freenet.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair Subject: Re: Blackjack for the ZX80 (mostly) completed Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 03:20:31 +0000 Organization: The league against squirrels Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <5ecebf23-1a66-47d7-aff1-3b3917f617ca@r4g2000prm.googlegroups.com> <56c28b4f-5ec0-4fc6-8213-e0656baef230@p16g2000vbo.googlegroups.com> X-Trace: individual.net 9JXnlIAeoFBK2yS6LP/csw/Y9lnKjqYPEutqiUFChssVKz5/9j X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:d3t3gv3IW3Qf9ueycYBtlRUP9KU= User-Agent: tin/1.9.3-20080506 ("Dalintober") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.28-19-generic (i686)) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.sys.sinclair:19 And verily, didst N.N. Thayer hastily babble thusly: > Overall it's less important than the 11-vs-1 ace issue, though. I'm a > little surprised that wasn't addressed in the original author's code. Didn't you mention the original author being Tim Hartnell? Not meaning to dis those long departed, his typeins were all a bit on the crap side from my experience... Dunno why he gained such respect as a programmer back in the day. Possibly cos he was quite prolific in the early days. -- | spike1@freenet.co.uk | Windows95 (noun): 32 bit extensions and a | | | graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit | | Andrew Halliwell BSc | operating system originally coded for a 4 bit | | in |microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that| | Computer Science | can't stand 1 bit of competition. |