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| Started by | Shaun Bebbington <shaun@square-circle.co.uk> |
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| First post | 2018-03-05 01:40 -0800 |
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Sinclair ZX81 37th anniversary! Shaun Bebbington <shaun@square-circle.co.uk> - 2018-03-05 01:40 -0800
Re: Sinclair ZX81 37th anniversary! Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2018-03-05 15:21 +0000
Re: Sinclair ZX81 37th anniversary! "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2018-03-11 15:02 +0000
| From | Shaun Bebbington <shaun@square-circle.co.uk> |
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| Date | 2018-03-05 01:40 -0800 |
| Subject | Sinclair ZX81 37th anniversary! |
| Message-ID | <5dc9da2f-84a0-4a49-a7df-2d52870d3e76@googlegroups.com> |
Yes, it's 37 years since the launch of the famous Sinclair ZX81. Here's a random maze generator for you: 10 PRINT CHR$(RND*7); 20 GOTO 10 You're welcome!
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| From | Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> |
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| Date | 2018-03-05 15:21 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <20180305152127.547d3e45@talktalk.net> |
| In reply to | #4564 |
On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 01:40:43 -0800 (PST) Shaun Bebbington <shaun@square-circle.co.uk> wrote: > Yes, it's 37 years since the launch of the famous Sinclair ZX81. Gulp. Pass the zimmer frame. (The anniversaries I really dread are the Amiga ones, though. Even at the age of 9, I knew the '81 was a bit of a creaky old bodge-job, albeit one of funkiness and skillosity. But the Amiga was The Future once.) > Here's a random maze generator for you: > > 10 PRINT CHR$(RND*7); > 20 GOTO 10 > > You're welcome! Feel the AWESOME POWER of the ZX81! How many lines of code would it take to do that in your fancy modern Javascript, eh? -- Duncan Snowden.
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| From | "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> |
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| Date | 2018-03-11 15:02 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <p83gej$i9r$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #4565 |
It somehow seems longer than that, Since then I have lost all my sight, so can't enjoy this much. I no longer have my personally built 81, which was very boring to make, all those resistors and diodes all the same one after the other yawn. Brian -- From the Sofa of Brian Gaff Reply address is active Remember, if you don't like where I post or what I say, you don't have to read my posts! :-) "Duncan Snowden" <duncan_s@talktalk.net> wrote in message news:20180305152127.547d3e45@talktalk.net... > On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 01:40:43 -0800 (PST) > Shaun Bebbington <shaun@square-circle.co.uk> wrote: > >> Yes, it's 37 years since the launch of the famous Sinclair ZX81. > > Gulp. Pass the zimmer frame. > > (The anniversaries I really dread are the Amiga ones, though. Even > at the age of 9, I knew the '81 was a bit of a creaky old bodge-job, > albeit one of funkiness and skillosity. But the Amiga was The Future > once.) > >> Here's a random maze generator for you: >> >> 10 PRINT CHR$(RND*7); >> 20 GOTO 10 >> >> You're welcome! > > Feel the AWESOME POWER of the ZX81! How many lines of code would it > take to do that in your fancy modern Javascript, eh? > > -- > Duncan Snowden. >
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