Certainly an outlier. It could have been so good with some RAM and a full 16-bit bus. I was never brave enough to attempt such mods but saw a web site describing it.

I moved away from the ZX81 before I reached the point of learning assembly and moved to the TI-99/4a which did not really give you an option to use it. Only when I realised that I would like to learn did I then migrate to my Atari and start with a dodgy copy of Synassembler and “Mapping the Atari”.

Thank you for this afternoon talking with the Newcastle skeptics. Always warm, inspiring and with a good dose of humanity. I’m impressed by your ability to project!

Operations guide documentation for the Compaq 386/20e computer.

Lucky enough to find a manual for the Compaq 386/20e I bought a while back, even including the tape drive. #retrocomputing

Always good to hear some Atari 8-bit mentions on @thisweekinretro.bsky.social and this week supplied by @savetz.bsky.social. Thoroughly enjoyed the episode.

They did not physically send forces in the way they are asking us to do. They gave intelligence and now we are letting them use bases on some missions. About the same level of assistance but they are branding it as a betrayal.

Is that meant to be a Union Flag? Is she trying to get A.I. to morph it into a swastika?

OK, so we don’t buy U.S. oil any longer. Also promote green tech even more.

Last time he checked was in his History of WWII picture book.

They refused direct help during the Falklands too. So much for coming to our aid. Call them out on that too. Tell them to sod off and that we are rejoining the E.U. to really annoy him.

Often we may want to embrace the randomness instead of more of the content we have seen before. Seems a healthier approach for anything “social” unless it is the result of a specific search.

I loved it on my 800XL. The graphics really have something even though the resolution is low with a real underwater feel.

To be fair, I will feel very much the same way when he goes.

It was a matter of what was on offer in the catalogue in order to pay over 52 weeks and was in range of my pocket money. 😃 But then the ZX81 was in range if I sold my snooker table. My Atari came along later after a short upgrade from the ZX81 to the TI-99/4a as I wanted colour and sound.

The one I wanted but was too expensive for our budget and I ended up with the ZX81.

You can really see the progression of the design from the Atari VCS (single scanline) through the Atari 800 (DMA, character graphics and other modes, POKEY sound) and on to the Amiga where the custom chips are an evolution of the thinking behind the Atari 800’s (Copper lists vs Antic display list).

The Dungeon is a game I go back to and replay through every few years. Just about the only game I can say that about!

Homebrew and indie are what keeps the hobby alive.

I agree totally. The pages I look to first are the homebrew coverage and it used to be great when Jason Kelk was there before his tragic passing. Mainly a personal thing as I have a love of Atari 8-bits but it feels like they are ignored now.

RG has gone downhill I think. I know many have always had a bad opinion of it but I have enjoyed it and subscribe but I am now rethinking that. Always the same platforms lazily covered. Not having owned an Amstrad, Spectrum or C64 back in the day means articles or interest are limited.

Mine are:-
6502 (1984 on Atari 600XL)
68000 (1985 at Uni)
x86 (1990 working on small routines to accelerate C programs at work)
Z80 (2020 for fun on a TRS-80 model I)

Could have been so good if the 16-bit bus was more accessible. My second machine after the ZX81 and Extended BASIC really made a difference to it.

Yeah! I am not into removing price stickers, it’s part of the story. 😀

Been trying to collect up games with their magazine adverts and this was one of them.

Every company I buy any product or service from these days is just so needy!

Completed this issue of C&VG October ‘84 with the flexi-disc that arrived yesterday. Now, if I could find the C64 version that you had to write to them to request it…

Because the Brexit Party, Vote Leave, Boris Johnson et al lied. Not that I feel bitter about it at all. Reform pulling the same trick all over again.

Board of Peace? Sounds more like he’s heard too many Bond audio books and has formed SPECTRE.

So FIFA’s inaugural Peace Prize winner is abandoning any commitment to peace because he didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize. The U.S. president having a tantrum and showing everyone just why he did not get it in the first place. Crazy times.

Still have my Commodore LED calculator. It was so cool at the time but we weren’t allowed them in school. At that age you never tired of spelling ‘BOOBIES’!