Dr Beep quiz

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WITH WHICH GAME DID YOU WIN THE SPECTRUM30 CODINGCONTEST?

OLYMPIC SWIMMING IN 1 LINE OF CODE


The contest was on the last day of the London olympics and I coded a oneliner swimming.
This oneliner was later used as the 1K hires swimming on the ZX81.
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WHAT IS NOT A SELLINGPOINT FOR THE ZX SPECTRUM?
GREAT SOUND

Easy.. only a single beeper here.

There are MANY GAMES so that is not the answer and as for FREE OF DRUGS :

On our way back from Spectrum30 in Cambridge a customsofficer was intriged by the ZX Spectrum Ben Versteed (ByteDelight)
had bought there. She was thinking why would anyone buy this "junk" and she did an extensive drugtest on the ZX Spectrums.

We told the seller our story and he replied that he would add this as a sellingpoint.
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WHAT WAS YOUR LARGEST MINIDUMP AND THE SMALLEST 15 YEARS LATER?
49 BYTES AND 30 BYTES

The minidump is a routine to print the screen to a non-ZX printer like the Epson.
After finding Roelof Konings routine I saw it could be 1 byte less. My first routine was 49 bytes and it ended after many years in 30 bytes.
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THE MINIDUMP-SCREENROUTINE WAS DEVELOPED BETWEEN?
1994-2009

If you never read about it... in 2012 during Spectrum30 I gave away 100 booklets with the full story.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/5xsb9dpy ... S.pdf/file
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WHAT GAME DID YOU GET WITH YOUR ZX SPECTRUM?

TRASHMAN

I was allowed to pick 1 game up with the computer: it became TRASHMAN
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HOW DID YOU PLAY DALEY THOMPSON DECATHLON

YOU BUILT YOUR OWN INPUTDEVICE

I bought 3 button in an electronicshop and with some wood I created
a box with 3 buttons on top. These were connected with a joystick connector and were programmable.

It saved my joysticks and my keyboard.
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WHY HAS GAME 81 "SIR CLIVE" 162 ROOMS?

SIR CLIVE PASSED AWAY AGED 81 AND IT IS GAME 81, 81+81=162



2X81=162 this is also true and it reads like ZX81 but the reason is the tribute to Sir CLive.
The game has more than enough space left for extra rooms, but it was done in 162 rooms.
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And that was the final question of the quiz.
Now you must be able to score 100%
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