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- From: S.N.Owen@newcastle.ac.uk (Si Owen)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
- Subject: Re: Music and Code from Demos
- Message-ID: <By0vDH.KJH@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 16:05:40 GMT
- 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> <1992Nov19.122050.7305@ifi.uio.no> <1992Nov19.150956.10955@news.uit.no>
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- In article <1992Nov19.150956.10955@news.uit.no>, kjetilja@stud.cs.uit.no (Kjetil Jacobsen) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov19.122050.7305@ifi.uio.no>, nilsco@ifi.uio.no (Nils Liaaen Corneliusen) writes:
- >>
- >>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!
- >>
- >>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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- >>INCLUDE "disclaimer.i" Zrouoggathog
- >>Nils Corneliusen Cthulhu in '96!
- >>internet: nilsco@ifi.uio.no Hasoithshuna
- >
- >Sure those were days...
- >Had three great games for it, all from (r.i.p) Bug Byte Software...
- >You want a small black nice looking portable computer? ZX81 is your choice..
- >-Kjetil..
-
- On the subject of older computers... has anyone ever heard of a Sam Coupe ?
- They were the followup to the Spectrum, with 4 screens modes (including a Speccy
- compatable one for running Speccy games), Z80B (6Mhz!!), 256K memory, 128 colour
- palette and lots of other extras that people used to wish that the Speccy had.
- The company went bust and the scene is running quite slowly now (but still going
- none the less). I raise the initial question because i've never met another Sam
- Coupe owner or met many people that have actually heard of one!
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- Si
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