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Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Introduction to Programming
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animal531
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I wrote my first program on the Spectrum.
10 goto 20
20 goto 10
Nothing beat waiting 5 minutes for your program to load, except when it failed because the tape was wound too tightly and you first had to use a pen to unwind/rewind the tape a bit.
10 goto 20
20 goto 10
Nothing beat waiting 5 minutes for your program to load, except when it failed because the tape was wound too tightly and you first had to use a pen to unwind/rewind the tape a bit.
Dan C
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Good old days...
gregmcc
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Ahh good old Spectrum. Brings back days of making copies. 2 cassette recorders , one playing and one recording next to each other.
Copy ruined when dogs barked!
Copy ruined when dogs barked!
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The only thing missing is a ZX Spectrum to practice on & maybe also a spectrum basic manual.
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SlowInternet
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My first "pc' was a Sinclair Spectrum
SlowInternet
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Ahh good old Spectrum. Brings back days of making copies. 2 cassette recorders , one playing and one recording next to each other.
Copy ruined when dogs barked!
As friends you never bought the same games. Each will buy different game and the "backups" will be made. Worst was when the tape was swallowed by the dirty head rollers.
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animal531
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I made the mistake of opening up my Speccy and somehow frying a bit of the keyboard controller somewhere, so pressing the keys did nothing.
After that I had to use a piece of cable, look up the key positions and create a manual circuit to simulate pressing each key to type in the LOAD "" command.
Luckily after that I still had the joystick that I could play most games with.
After that I had to use a piece of cable, look up the key positions and create a manual circuit to simulate pressing each key to type in the LOAD "" command.
Luckily after that I still had the joystick that I could play most games with.
The keyboard layout is mapped according to a ZX Spectrum layout so an image of that keyboard will help find keys like "', otherwise with a bit of experimentation it's fairly easy to find most keys. Overall it all works pretty well (including Spectrum basic)
Btw good to hear you got your joystick to work.
Progenix Oj101
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I still have my Spectrum. Some days I consider getting it fired up, then I remember what a headache the blasted thing really was
