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Article #37Re: Neat hack proposal for old machines...
From: A Halliwell
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 20:45
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 20:45
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Bob Manners (rjm@swift.eng.ox.ac.uk) wrote: : Wouldn't be the first time I was wrong! I thought the Speccy could : read ZX81 tapes? Maybe it has a backwards compatibility mode? Seems : unlikely for Sinclair to do this though ... Nope. They were totally incompatible. Even the character sets were different (the character set started at '0' on the ZX81. The Speccy had ascii characters. -- ______________________________________________________________________________ | |What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crackin | |u5a77@cc.keele.ac.uk |the ground beneath a giant bolder, which you can't | | |move, with no hope of rescue. | |Andrew Halliwell |Consider how lucky you are that life has been good | |Principal in:- |to you so far... | |Comp Sci & Visual Arts | -The BOOK, Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!potter.cc.keele.ac.uk!u5a77 From: u5a77@cc.keele.ac.uk (A Halliwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.cbm,comp.sys.tandy,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Neat hack proposal for old machines... Date: 8 Feb 1996 20:45:09 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4fdncl$pkf@gerry.cc.keele.ac.uk> References: <4etnnl$4fj@news.microsoft.com> <LJ4TiD1w165w@krypton.rain.com> <RJM.96Feb8133827@swift.eng.ox.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: potter.cc.keele.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]