ZX81 Controls a Nuclear Power Plant
This video is a ‘tongue in cheek’ look at controlling a nuclear power plant with a ZX81 and is inspired by the marketing of the time.
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Experiencing the Altair 8800
For anyone with an interest in early 8 bit computers, even for those of us in the UK, it is impossible not to recognise the importance of the Altair 8800. In this article I attempt to share my experiences with this awesome machine.
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Microchess to Project Chess
Microchess is probably, albeit indirectly, responsible for the success of Apple, the success Microsoft and the success of the IBM
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Using MAME to Emulate the Apple II+
Introduction The article 6502 Cross Assembly for the Apple II using MacOS, describes, as the titles suggests, how to use a
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Z80 SBC using Tom Szolyga’s SBC-Z80 Board
Introduction This article forms a short review of the ‘homebrew’ Grant Searle designed Z80 CP/M machine, built using Tom Szolyga’s Z80SBC printed
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Programming the Videx Videoterm with Assembly Language
Introduction This article describes how to write assembler based software that utilises the Videx Videoterm 80 Column Display. The aim
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Patching WordStar for use with a VT-100 Terminal
The following is a complete set of the patches to customise Wordstar 3 for the VT100 terminal as derived from
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Apple IIe RAM Swap the Easy Way
This post describes what I think is a fairly simple way to swap the eight soldered RAM chips found on
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Patching WordStar for the Acorn Z80 Second Processor
Introduction This article described the the very simple steps required to patch WordStar 3.0 so that it works as expected
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Patching dBaseII for the Acorn Z80 Second Processor
Introduction This article described the the very simple steps required to patch dBaseII so that it works as expected on
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