Hello and thanks.

[Tom Mann Centuria]

Hi all, thanks for letting me into the group. Only just got my first ever zx81 (there was one in the house when I was growing up but that belonged to my brother) and looking forward to playing some games on it and general tinkering. Roman Empire is first port of call (when I get a ram pack) remember vividly watching my brother play that, with occasional ram pack wobble undoing all his hard work!

[gammaray]

Hello!

There are many options for memory:

1. On board chip modification for 16K or 32K of memory - soldering skills needed
2. A modern ZXPand or ZXBlast which have storage options for program files
3. An Ebay sold 16K external memory pack usually sold with another ZX81 or TS1000

Regards.

[RWAP]

Welcome to the forums - I can't say I remember a game called 'Roman Empire' though....

[Moggy]

Welcome to the forums - I can't say I remember a game called 'Roman Empire' though....

I'm 99% certain I have it somewhere.

Welcome aboard Tom always nice to have new members.

[Tom Mann Centuria]

Thanks for the welcome, think I'll probably go down the 16k ram pack from ebay idea initially before looking at zxblast or zxpand. I have a tzxduino with latest firmware for my Spectrum so I'll have a crack at loading games that way.

Roman Empire was from Lothlorien, a text only affair.

[Moggy]

It was and can be downloaded from this excellent site.

http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/tape/RomanEmpire

[Tom Mann Centuria]

Wow, that's a fantastic site, thanks for the link.