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Comment on Battery Box by Liverpool Meeting – 20th October 2009 « A local hackerspace | North West England & North Wales |

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:12:47 +0000

[...] Dominic managed to find us for his first visit to one of the meetings, and he even lugged this rather impressive battery box from his electric bike project along with [...]

Comment on Trying to remember how to code by admin

admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:49:42 +0000

’s funny, I was playing “The hobbit” on a spectrum emulator just the other day. Even with a walkthru I gave up once I got to the goblin’s dungeon. Funny isn’t it, you remember these things with such fondness, spend ages trying to find them again – only to find they were actually pretty sh*t. “you are in the troll’s clearing… you wait, time passes… Thorin enters, Thorin sits down and starts singing about gold…”

That’s some funky speccy lookin’ Sinclair basic there – I remember getting totally freaked by the concept of “variables” – surely if you’re printing at 10,1 all the time aren’t you just overwriting tho? – you might need to add some colour(!) – was so jealous of colour.

Comment on Trying to remember how to code by Marvin

Marvin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:14:50 +0000

Funny I had a ZX81, my first computer, i too spent many hours programming Sinclair Basic, set me in good sted for my whopping 48K Spectrum i got next!

you can update your code slightly using variables:

10 LET MSG$ = “HELLO DOMINIC”
20 PRINT AT 10,1; MSG$
30 GOTO 20

erm …. i’ll get my coat …

Marv

Comment on Controller Up Chute by Youtube Downloader

Youtube Downloader — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:55:55 +0000

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Comment on Trying to remember how to code by Alastair

Alastair — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:45:56 +0000

Ah, the old zx, i was a bit young for one of those, but remember my dad hunched over one in his shed. No porn in those days. I remember my old Vic20 and BBC. I used to love typing out the programs from the BBC Mag. Due to typos’ they rarely worked lol!