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- From: nilsco@ifi.uio.no (Nils Liaaen Corneliusen)
- Subject: Re: Music and Code from Demos
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.122050.7305@ifi.uio.no>
- Sender: nilsco@ifi.uio.no (Nils Liaaen Corneliusen)
- Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
- References: <1992Nov13.142612.8928@daimi.aau.dk> <1992Nov14.153146.4287@crash> <1979@lysator.liu.se> <Bxtuvy.4tK@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <d2hacker.722155564@dtek.chalmers.se>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 12:20:50 GMT
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- Originator: nilsco@holmenkollen.ifi.uio.no
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- In article <d2hacker.722155564@dtek.chalmers.se>, d2hacker@dtek.chalmers.se (Magnus Hacker) writes:
- > Could this be the (in)famous ZX80? (or was it ZX81?)
- > I remember I was about to buy one of those, but my eyes fell
- > on a VIC20 instead..
- > Just think about it... 3.5 kilobytes of RAM!
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- The ZX81 had just 1k ram as standard. But you could a 'wobblepack' with a
- whopping 16k extra. (wobblepack - it usually sent small wobbly lines down the
- screen and if you moved it *slightly*, kaboom!) It also had an amazing two
- color palette and max resolution of 64x44. Those were the days...
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- Nils Corneliusen Cthulhu in '96!
- internet: nilsco@ifi.uio.no Hasoithshuna
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