I like how he finished the article talking about the high standards of the Spectrum and Oric. High Standards? What planet was this guy from? Ok... Sinclair...
Heh! Reading this somehow managed to pop an old article into my head. Some magazine from the early 80's published two pokes for the Apple PET computer. These...
With that in mind, that's probably why the VZ Basic Reference manual includes an assurance that the operator can cause no physical damage to the machine from...
but the bugs got to the spelling and grammer when they wrote that manual: "This page is intended to be bank" If those few blank ages in the manual were to be...
It's the software that re-enables commands in the VZ ROM and once the programs are in the machine you don't need to run it. It would make porting things easier...
Apple PET? Isn't that Commodore PET? Supposedly, the first Tandy Color Computers could overheat a chip with the right POKE and hardware activity. Something...
The POKE actually stopped the raster in one spot on the screen and it kept heating up that spot until the smoke was let out of the machine. I saw a program on...
What's worse is when you are being a smartarse to someone and stuff up your response so you look just as bad ;) -- http://www.ZigZagSoft.com/ Beta test and get...
I think this is the same chip used on the VZ speech board that appears in the VZ Journals. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5105368580...
... appears ... Most likely, the SP0256 was one of the most common and easy to use speech synth chips ever made, and is the same chip as used in the ...
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Jul 5, 2004 7:35 am
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It sounds the same as the Tandy Speech & Sound Pack which also had a general Instraments Sound chip. I believe it also had a PIC micro-controller programmed to...
Hello all, gone a bit quite on this group. So I will dare ask for some NON VZ programming help. Since my stroke I have not been able to remember any VB or...
Hi Peter, I can have a crack at those, I use vb6. Can't commit to any deadlines but hassle me again in a week or so. ... This message was sent through MyMail...
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Aug 15, 2004 8:25 am
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THE ORIGINAL VZ200 PERSONAL COLOUR COMPUTER COLLECTORS , THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST COLOR COMPUTERS TO COME OUT AND IT WORKS ITS A VZ200 DICK SMITH ELECTRONICS ...
Long time no traffic.... (and please excuse the following useless dribble.) GMH (Holden) are about to release the VZ Commodore. Just had to say it.......
OK, I am now once again the proud owner of a (working) VZ200 thanks to eBay and a guy in South Australia. The good thing is that it came with a stack of tapes,...
... Metric Spycatcher Typing Teacher Flashword Seris (Part A) Does anyone know what the plugpack V & A are for the cassette recorder (DSE)? Andrew Laird....
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