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Thanks for the link. Really interesting read.

Does anyone know what happened to Software Farm. They released the excellent Rocket Man and Miner 49er quite late in the ZX81's life and I wondered if they went on to other formats or greatness?

I've just discovered Bobs games for the first time. I'm blown away with what's been achieved with the ZX81. Incredible talent.

Shaun_B wrote:I remember it well

Regards,

Shaun.

Incredible to think that programmer and user are communicating about this 30 years after the event through a forum accessible anywhere in the world.

I don't think we could have conceived such technology all the years ago.

That's awesome. So many happy memories from a small clip. I'm looking forwards to this release.

Thanks for the friendly welcome

Thanks for the information guys. I suspected it was a general awareness of the machines abilities and it's short lifespan.

I'm so impressed with the quality of the new hi res games that are available now. Incredible stuff.

I have a question about hi res games for the ZX81 please. Why didn't we see many more hi res games for the ZX81 in the early 80s? There were two great hi res games from Software Farm and there are dozens of new hi res games available now, but I don't understand why we didn't see more of this quality...

I was looking through some old computer magazines and found my first ZX81 1K game called Ticking Bomb, which I submitted to Home Computing Weekly. http://www.stevenhowlett.webspace.virginmedia.com/tickingbomb.jpg Very simple and very BASIC (lol) and they even paid me £25 for my efforts. As you can i...

Just found this forum after reading another post in WoS. Its nice to see the ZX80 and ZX81 have a dedicated presence on the web. Anyway hello from a new member in a small corner of Wales.