Giving the ZX Spectrum a Fair Shake
The ZX Spectrum recently celebrated its 44th birthday, prompting a retrospective on its capabilities. The article discusses the system's BASIC programming features and compares them to its predecessor, the ZX81. Future articles will delve deeper into machine code programming for the Spectrum.
- ▪The ZX Spectrum is celebrated for its role in prototyping Z80 code.
- ▪The article highlights the similarities between Spectrum BASIC and ZX81 BASIC.
- ▪Future explorations will focus on machine code programming for the Spectrum.
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Giving the ZX Spectrum a Fair Shake Leave a reply Last month (just a couple days before my Exidy Sorcerer article) the ZX Spectrum celebrated its 44th birthday. I have written shockingly little about the system given that it still remains the first system I go to when prototyping Z80 code. I wrote up a platform guide for it last year and mentioned it in passing while I was trying out various Z80 development tools, but beyond that it’s been almost ten years since it’s gotten any dedicated articles. Even those were pretty perfunctory; I was mostly interested in the challenge of writing a machine code program that could run unchanged on the Spectrum 16K and the wildly incompatible TS2068. So let’s have some fun, with a belated birthday bash.
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