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Re: 20 years a programmer
« Reply #15 on: 12 January 2009, 21:29:04 »
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Z80 still gets used in a lot of apps.

PIS's are slowly killing it though....PIC's are great little microcontrollers though!
I suspect Z80 still used a lot due to cost now as well...  ...though at 30yrs old, its about time it was retired ;D
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Re: 20 years a programmer
« Reply #16 on: 12 January 2009, 21:31:14 »
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Still got a couple of C64s - wonder if they will still fire up ok?

Caps might be a bit dry...


In my tidying up this week, I found:
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ZX Spectrum+
Couple of ZX Interface 1s
Interface 2
Couple of Microdrives
2 QLs
2 BBC Model Bs

.. and I bet the BBC micros still work, too.  ;)

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« Reply #17 on: 12 January 2009, 21:32:47 »
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Z80 still gets used in a lot of apps.

PIS's are slowly killing it though....PIC's are great little microcontrollers though!
I suspect Z80 still used a lot due to cost now as well...  ...though at 30yrs old, its about time it was retired ;D

Trouble is the PIC's are cheaper!

And pretty powerful!
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Re: 20 years a programmer
« Reply #18 on: 12 January 2009, 21:34:03 »
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Z80 still gets used in a lot of apps.

PIS's are slowly killing it though....PIC's are great little microcontrollers though!
I suspect Z80 still used a lot due to cost now as well...  ...though at 30yrs old, its about time it was retired ;D

Trouble is the PIC's are cheaper!

And pretty powerful!
Yes, I can believe PICs have now got cheaper.  And probably easier to implement (though the Z80 was quite easy compared to other processors of its day)?
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« Reply #19 on: 12 January 2009, 21:35:48 »
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Still got a couple of C64s - wonder if they will still fire up ok?

Caps might be a bit dry...


In my tidying up this week, I found:
ZX81 and 16k rampack
ZX Spectrum
ZX Spectrum+
Couple of ZX Interface 1s
Interface 2
Couple of Microdrives
2 QLs
2 BBC Model Bs

.. and I bet the BBC micros still work, too.  ;)

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The one I tried has a weird fault - certain characters on the screen are wrong, eg a c becomes an M (that may not be exactly right), until you press a key, then its all OK until you release key  :-/
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Re: 20 years a programmer
« Reply #20 on: 12 January 2009, 21:39:44 »
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The one I tried has a weird fault - certain characters on the screen are wrong, eg a c becomes an M (that may not be exactly right), until you press a key, then its all OK until you release key  :-/

Just in Mode 7 or all display modes?

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Re: 20 years a programmer
« Reply #21 on: 12 January 2009, 21:44:51 »
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The one I tried has a weird fault - certain characters on the screen are wrong, eg a c becomes an M (that may not be exactly right), until you press a key, then its all OK until you release key  :-/

Just in Mode 7 or all display modes?

Kevin
only got as far as switching it on, cant remember what mode they start in, too long ago. Or did it start in 7 if it was available - I know the model As didn't have it
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Re: 20 years a programmer
« Reply #22 on: 12 January 2009, 21:46:47 »
I loved my Spectrum 48k! ;)
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« Reply #23 on: 12 January 2009, 21:48:15 »
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I loved my Spectrum 48k! ;)

lol got one of those and a 128K+ in the loft....trouble is, I no longer have anything capable of loading a game on it since tapes (and the players) went out of fashion!
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Re: 20 years a programmer
« Reply #24 on: 12 January 2009, 21:50:17 »
I wish I knew what the f*ck you lot are on about :-/ :)
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« Reply #25 on: 12 January 2009, 21:50:26 »
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I loved my Spectrum 48k! ;)

lol got one of those and a 128K+ in the loft....trouble is, I no longer have anything capable of loading a game on it since tapes (and the players) went out of fashion!
Still got one, but I've cut the plug off at some point, so I need to find a spare 13a plug ;D
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Re: 20 years a programmer
« Reply #26 on: 12 January 2009, 21:51:50 »
I did learn C and C++ at Uni....plus 68000 and 6800 micors to.....
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Re: 20 years a programmer
« Reply #27 on: 12 January 2009, 21:52:31 »
Model B defaulted to mode 7 but you could jumper it to start in other modes. Mode 7 used a teletext chip to generate characters whereas the other modes used a frame buffer in memory.

Just wondering if you get acne all over the screen in the other modes, which would probably indicate memory errors.

Still got mine in the loft. Still works, despite the abuse it took. I wasn't far away from having converted it to a Master series using wire-wrap before I got a 286 8-) and it got abandoned. :'(

Came across an Acorn Electron too. Can't remember where I got that from. Certainly didn't pay any money for it. :o

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Re: 20 years a programmer
« Reply #28 on: 12 January 2009, 21:56:09 »
I found a master 4 or 5 years ago, got good money for it on egay
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Re: 20 years a programmer
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