Hello
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2014 6:46 pm
Hi
Just introducing myself. Remember the 1st computer I ever saw was a ZX81 at Christchurch South Intermediate. Remember vividly everybody playing Mazogs on it! I think despite its obvious limitations, the ZX81 remains in my mind the cooliest of them all.
My own computing history:
16k ZX Spectrum (cassette based) - Grandma got it for me for birthday
Atari 130XE (cassette based) - Parents got this because guy down the road was a member of the Atari Users Group in ChCh. Sold the Speccy to get some $$$
Apple IIe - used these at Cashmere High School. Dad swapped his trailor to the guy who built his garage to get the IIe
All of these machines have long gone!
I always regret I didn't have the patience/concentration todo more with these machines. Even to this day I have a "dream" of writting a machine code/assembly language game for one of the 8 bit platforms.
As a kid I would dream about owning a range of machines, depending on the week/time of day etc!
At the moment I have a ZX81 set up. Also a Tandy 102 (see my website about it - horribly out of date - http://planetnz.com/palmheads/tandy.php). I did have a US TI-99/4a, but sold it on trademe about 6 years ago.Never got around todo anything with it.
Have always had a soft spot for the Sega SC3000(H). Felt like it had a good backing in NZ back in the day.
Have just got an order in for a ZXPand for the ZX81, so am looking forward to plugging that in.
Am learning machine code for the ZX81 also at the moment.
Anyway, thats me!
Good to join this forum!
cheers
Daryn
Just introducing myself. Remember the 1st computer I ever saw was a ZX81 at Christchurch South Intermediate. Remember vividly everybody playing Mazogs on it! I think despite its obvious limitations, the ZX81 remains in my mind the cooliest of them all.
My own computing history:
16k ZX Spectrum (cassette based) - Grandma got it for me for birthday
Atari 130XE (cassette based) - Parents got this because guy down the road was a member of the Atari Users Group in ChCh. Sold the Speccy to get some $$$
Apple IIe - used these at Cashmere High School. Dad swapped his trailor to the guy who built his garage to get the IIe
All of these machines have long gone!
I always regret I didn't have the patience/concentration todo more with these machines. Even to this day I have a "dream" of writting a machine code/assembly language game for one of the 8 bit platforms.
As a kid I would dream about owning a range of machines, depending on the week/time of day etc!
At the moment I have a ZX81 set up. Also a Tandy 102 (see my website about it - horribly out of date - http://planetnz.com/palmheads/tandy.php). I did have a US TI-99/4a, but sold it on trademe about 6 years ago.Never got around todo anything with it.
Have always had a soft spot for the Sega SC3000(H). Felt like it had a good backing in NZ back in the day.
Have just got an order in for a ZXPand for the ZX81, so am looking forward to plugging that in.
Am learning machine code for the ZX81 also at the moment.
Anyway, thats me!
Good to join this forum!
cheers
Daryn