Karlos wrote:
Vincent wrote:
I'd bet you'd be even more glad it wasn't Pac-Man!! :-D
"Eat them up! yum! yum!" :lol:
Regarding the speccy, it goes back even earlier than that. He claimed he was able to achieve a similar effect messing about on the zx81 :-D
I could do that ! all you did was something like:
10 FAST
20 FAST
30 SLOW
40 GOTO 10
this would make a note (pink noise? can't remember - this was 25 years ago after all!) if you turned the volume up and slightly detuned yer telly.
for everyone else: a lot of corners were cut in making the ZX81 a 4 or 5 IC computer - the CPU was used by the ULA to generate the timings for the generating the character based display, by use if NMIs the R register, and whatnot. consequently, SLOW mode was dog slow, and you only got 25% of the CPU's time to yourself - FAST basically turned off the display generator.
You can tell he was a speccy fan. Half of his tracks have at least one spectrum tape loading sample in them somewhere!
cool!
but not quite the same as Tim Follin...
