- This is neat :)
Now we need one for the Star LC-10
- Settlers was awesome. Is it better than Civ II? Hard to say.
- This was an amazing piece of debugging and interesting to find that the official copy protection patches, and the ones from GOG, are both faulty and ruin the game.
- Amiga was amazing. So many great memories of playing games on it. Too many hours on Supercars II. Probably didn't use an Amiga until 1988, IIRC. Before that it was just the ST.
- Same. More prosperous friends than I had them. I was burdened by a loan for a Mac II from university that was $5500. The comparison really wasnt much different than the Atari vs Apple II a decade earlier. You could do some really great things on the Apple equipment, but it wasn't one of Jay Miners kids...
- Fantastic article, superb research, great to see the board revived too. Worth checking out the YouTube vid linked in the comments also.
- A good friend of mine bumped into him at a party about 25 years ago and he said he'd being doing math work for the NSA.
- That demo was amazing, thank you.
- The main difference was that 48K basic you had to find the keyboard key with the keyword on it and press that to get the word. Some keys had 6 different functions. It was like learning the 2000 Jōyō Kanji.
With 128 basic, blessed that it is, you could just type like a real human. If you want to print, type PRINT. It taught me how to type really badly and really quickly.
- interesting. so the tokenized keywords were directly input by the user instead of parsed and transformed into a token form. certainly economical in how the code was composed and transformed. a lot less parsing code I would guess.
- the original zx80 had 1k of ram so it was a way to save a lot of space for code.
i had a zx +2 and wrote code on it in basic. the extra commands the 128k basic had allowed you to swap data in and out of the extra ram. it was still an antiquated basic compared to basics like the bbc or the amstrad cpc's which where around at the same time. but it was cheaper and had a massive user base. so much more software available.
- This was awesome. I did all my early work on a toastrack (and got the burns from it). Always wanted to get another one and restore it.
- This is great. Video here:
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