PICOZX81 - a ZX81 emulator for Raspberry Pi Pico


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Grogster

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Posted: 11:55pm 17 Dec 2024      

"SHIFT+BREAK" seems to come into my head to stop a running program, but this is going A LONG way back in my memory.  

I'm guessing everyone on this forum has seen the "Micro-men" movie?
It's well worth a watch if you haven't, as it documents Sinclair computers and Acorn etc.

One thing I DID really like about the ZX81, was the whole keyword idea, where you could just press one "Key" on the membrane keyboard, and it would insert the entire BASIC command with the touch of just one key.  That was a nice idea, and did make experimenting with the base 1K model, easy.  Programs could be written quite quickly using that idea.