The ZX81 is a home computer that was produced by Sinclair Research and manufactured in Dundee, Scotland, by Timex Corporation. It was launched in the United...
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which differed from the black-and-white display of its predecessor, the ZX81. Rick Dickinson designed its distinctive case, rainbow motif, and rubber...
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The following is a list of clones of Sinclair Research's ZX80 and ZX81 home computers: MicroAce (1980, US) Microdigital TK80 (1981, Brazil) Nova Electrônica/Prológica...
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The ZX81 character set is the character encoding used by the Sinclair Research ZX81 family of microcomputers including the Timex Sinclair 1000 and Timex...
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(DRAM). Following the ZX81's release, a ZX81 8 KB ROM was available to upgrade the ZX80 at a cost of around 20% of a real ZX81. It came with a thin keyboard...
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19 September 2019. "ZX81: Small black box of computing desire". BBC News. 11 March 2011. Retrieved 23 December 2021. "Sinclair ZX81 | Platform | VideoGameGeek"...
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Timex Sinclair 1000 (category Sinclair ZX81 clones)
video monitor. The T/S 1000 was a slightly modified version of the Sinclair ZX81 with an NTSC RF modulator, for use with North American TVs, instead of PAL...
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The Sinclair ZX80, ZX81, and ZX Spectrum included a set of text semigraphics with quadrant-based block elements. The ZX80 and ZX81 also included a set...
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mass-market home computer for less than £100) and in the early 1980s, the ZX81, ZX Spectrum and the Sinclair QL. Sinclair Research is widely recognised...
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3D Monster Maze (category ZX81 games)
Greye and programmed by Malcolm Evans and released in 1981 for the Sinclair ZX81 platform with the 16 KB memory expansion. The game was initially released...
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the permission of Hipster Whale, Bob Smith re-wrote Crossy Road for the ZX81, an 8-bit computer from the 1980s. In Smith's words, one of the motivations...
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cheapest personal computer for sale in the United Kingdom. A year later, the ZX81 became available on the high street, introducing home computing to a generation...
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z/OS (OS/390) and IBM i (OS/400) EBCDIC NL 15 21 \025 ZX80 and ZX81 (home computers from Sinclair Research Ltd) ZX80/ZX81 proprietary encoding 76 118...
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particularly associated with computing. In 1980, the manual for the Sinclair ZX81 home computer used and explained TLA. The specific generation of three-letter...
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Commodore, VIC-20 K-Razy Antiks, CBS, Atari 8-bit Maze Death Race, PSS, ZX81, ZX Spectrum Microwave, Cavalier, Apple II Mines of Minos, CommaVid, Atari...
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ZX80 character set (section Changes in the ZX81)
it is related though not identical to the character set of the successor ZX81. The character set has 64 unique glyphs present at code points 0–63. With...
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Loriciel (section Sinclair ZX81)
for. During the 1980s, they developed games for various systems (Oric 1, ZX81, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Thomson computers and the Atari ST). The first...
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system which dated from 1976 encoded the £ as x23. The Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81 characters sets used x0C (ASCII: form feed). The ZX Spectrum and the BBC...
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J. K. Greye Software (section Sinclair ZX81)
Society meeting in Bath in 1981. They produced computer games for the Sinclair ZX81 and ZX Spectrum home computers. They struck gold with the revolutionary 3D...
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Vortex Software (section ZX81)
had developed for the Sinclair ZX81. They converted the game to the ZX Spectrum, but due to the low sales of the ZX81 version they licensed the game to...
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1K ZX Chess (category ZX81 games)
1K ZX Chess is a 1982 chess program for the unexpanded Sinclair ZX81. 1K ZX Chess's code takes up only 672 bytes in memory, but implements chess rules...
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Instruments TI-99/4A, TRS-80, Minitel, Teletext, ATASCII, PETSCII, ZX80, and ZX81 character sets. Semigraphics characters are also included in the form of...
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TRS-80. This was a text only game. It was converted to the Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81, and Toms created the software label Addictive Games to launch the game in...
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England from 1980 to 1986. The company's first games were for the Sinclair ZX81 home computer, but they expanded and were also responsible for various ZX...
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Compared to the cheap Sinclair ZX81, the ABC 80 was actually 15 times as fast on the simple loop of BM1 (with the ZX81 running in fast mode, i.e. without...
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with CPU comprising gate arrays. They were used in a consumer product, the ZX81, and new entrants to the market increased visibility and credibility. In...
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Don Priestley (section Sinclair ZX81)
former video game programmer who wrote over 20 commercial games for the ZX81 and ZX Spectrum home computers between 1982 and 1989. Despite successful...
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QL Teletext TI calculators TRS-80 Ventura International WISCII XCCS ZX80 ZX81 ZX Spectrum Unicode / ISO/IEC 10646 UTF-1 UTF-7 UTF-8 UTF-16 UTF-32 UTF-EBCDIC...
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Entertainment System. The video game Maze Death Race, released in 1982 for the ZX81 and in 1983 for the ZX Spectrum, resembles the film by its cover artwork...
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