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Greetings

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 8:50 pm
by zx83
Hiya, my first ZX81 was a kit bought and built for my brother when I was a teenager. I piggybacked extra 2114s to increase the RAM, having done much the same with 4116 DRAMs for my Video Genie - at 1.7 MHz that was notionally half the speed of the ZX but I still used it to write most of my Comp Sci coursework (Pascal and Cobol) and hundreds of articles for UK computer magazines, mostly Sinclair-related.

These days as well as lots of emulators, some of which I worked on and hundreds of which I reviewed for UK hobbyist magazines before retiring from freelance writing a decade ago, I have a TS-1000 with 8K SRAM and 32Mb (!) flash via ZXpand, and a ZX80 which I used to port my 1979 Apple ][ game Shop Steward to John Grant's original 4K ROM. It's freely downloadable from http://simon.mooli.org.uk/AF/article/shopstew.html

That's the only pre-Spectrum title I have released; there are quite a few of my Spectrum and QL titles online but this is not the place for those.

These days I work in Pro Audio and am not active as a hobbyist developer, nor inclined to be, but I did have a good chat with John Grant at an Audio Engineering Society meeting in Cambridge not long ago. Last I heard he was promoting a way of broadcasting over the Internet (multicast, unlike all current point-to-point streaming).

Re: Greetings

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 10:26 pm
by swensont
Simon!!

Glad to see you joining the Forum. It has been a while.

Tim Swenson

Re: Greetings

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 11:32 pm
by RWAP
Welcome to the forums Simon - it is always a pleasure to see your contributions to the Sinclair family

Re: Greetings

Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2016 5:11 pm
by Moggy
Greetings from me also. :D

Any chance of Whitehall making an appearance for the 80 as Shop Steward was damn good fun? :D

Re: Greetings

Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2016 5:30 pm
by Paul
Ahhh, YOU are sinclair Simon from the cartoon in the magazine I read some 35 years ago!!!
Welcome to the forum!
kind regards Paul