custom keycaps might be better than stickers...
here a video with all the explanations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1G5rX_YvCA
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- Tue Sep 26, 2023 11:25 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: ZX81 Keycap Stickers?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1168
- Thu Jul 06, 2023 7:05 pm
- Forum: Emulators
- Topic: ZX80 / ZX81 Emulator for the Raspberry Pi Pico
- Replies: 46
- Views: 39169
Re: ZX80 / ZX81 Emulator for the Raspberry Pi Pico
This may be a very niche area, but I’ve recently pulled together code from the community to create a ZX80/81 emulator running on the Raspberry Pi Pico I've not a pico around me just now but for what I've seen I would like to give my plause to you @Exile !! PS: for information I'm trying to have an ...
- Tue May 02, 2023 10:40 pm
- Forum: SALES
- Topic: BOOK: 81 hires games for the 1K ZX81
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13866
Re: BOOK: 81 hires games for the 1K ZX81
https://www.amazon.it/81-hires-games-1K ... B0C2RW1TH1
The link for italian store. I think all can be reached just replacing ".it" with the appropriate nation...
My copy is being sent!
The link for italian store. I think all can be reached just replacing ".it" with the appropriate nation...
My copy is being sent!
- Tue May 02, 2023 10:23 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Misc
- Topic: The poem for retrocomputing enthusiasts
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6056
The poem for retrocomputing enthusiasts
In the land of the binary, long ago, Where circuits glowed and screens were slow, A new age of computing had begun, Machines on desks, small but fun. The geeks of the world did gather 'round, To hear the clicking beeps of these machines' sound. The games were simple, but still we played, On screens ...
- Sat Feb 25, 2023 7:49 pm
- Forum: ZX BASIC
- Topic: Personal challenge: Writing a text adventure in 1k for the zx80
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1671
Re: Personal challenge: Writing a text adventure in 1k for the zx80
The ZX80 vars are more compact and not very much free space to be used in basic start. Anyway in the kit there is the best solution I've found (if there are better I'm all ears :) ), surely more than enough for a loader program. And to be clear: the basic is to start, the rest should be machine code...
- Sat Feb 25, 2023 11:18 am
- Forum: ZX BASIC
- Topic: Personal challenge: Writing a text adventure in 1k for the zx80
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1671
Re: Personal challenge: Writing a text adventure in 1k for the zx80
On a ZX81 I have placed the basic over the sysvar, need to check how it can be done on the ZX80. You can have a look at the 1K starter kit: https://sinclairzxworld.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2349 It contains example program (for both machines), assembler, instructions and possibilty to debug with Visu...
- Sat Feb 25, 2023 2:52 am
- Forum: ZX BASIC
- Topic: Personal challenge: Writing a text adventure in 1k for the zx80
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1671
Re: Personal challenge: Writing a text adventure in 1k for the zx80
Really a short one and filled with a lot of imagination in between I think. Anyway agree with machine code. Using a set of 32 characters I think you can save text to print in 5 bits per character compacting all text together and call a routine with initial char and end char parameters for printing. ...
- Fri Feb 17, 2023 11:43 am
- Forum: Development
- Topic: ZX81 audio.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4593
Re: ZX81 audio.
Seems by chance that also specdrum was using A5!
- Thu Feb 16, 2023 2:54 pm
- Forum: Development
- Topic: ZX81 audio.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4593
Re: ZX81 audio.
The ZN428 is a Ferranti semiconductors product, and is quite old, so certainly existed in the 1980s. See the dates at the end of this data sheet . Of course, it would not have been cheap… Then we can design two absolutely compatible boards to choose from! :) Is bus signal A5 good to go (meaning the...
- Thu Feb 16, 2023 12:47 pm
- Forum: Development
- Topic: ZX81 audio.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4593
Re: ZX81 audio.
@Freya : is ZN428 is a nice chip, but is "era compatible"? Seems to me that is a product of the 90s more than the 80s... With the solution of MAK you should add really just a bunch of resistors and you can go with a single widespread 74hct377! More, with a simple DPDT switch in the middle of the R2R...