Hullo, I'm a 50 yr old ex spectrum owner making a zx80

[DoktorDoris]

cheers john.

[DoktorDoris]

my zx81 arrived in the post. i have had the greatest of times getting it working. in fact i have taken inspiration from the spectrum crap games thing and I am working on a ludicrously ambitious crap game, for the programming education value. it is a real time text based adventure game about the apollo 11 mission. it has been jolly interesting trying to measure 10 days of real time in a zx81 game. it starts with "you are on a rocket landing pad, to the east is a rocket, the door of which is open" after a while we get "thorin enters from the east and starts singing about gold, there is a button labelled launch" after waiting for days of real time one can type "initiate moon landing". TBH i haven't had this much fun for ages. playing with a computer that lacks not only a clock from which one can derive time, but also insufficient storage to deal with 10 days of seconds is more fun than i have had for aeons.

[Gory-Glory]

Welcome and cool with a ZX81