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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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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64, and the Atari 8-bit computers. In Europe, there were also the ZX80, ZX81, ZX Spectrum, Acorn/BBC micros, several Amstrad systems, Dragon 32/64 from...
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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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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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inserted is too long, it is truncated. The concept is mentioned in the Sinclair ZX81 and ZX Spectrum user manuals, where a portion of a string is replaced by...
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incarnation of this project is created as a program hard-coded on a Sinclair ZX81. 1988 – Learning AI project founded as 'Thoughts' 1997 – Launched on the...
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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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Black Crystal (category ZX81 games)
Black Crystal is an action-adventure game released in 1982 for the ZX81, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and TI-99/4A computers by Carnell Software Ltd. It was...
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short film by Stephen Burke: 81[importance?] The model number of Sinclair ZX81 The number of the department in France called Tarn The code for international...
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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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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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Lingo – a similar TV show Wordle – a similar 2021 web game Adapted for the ZX81 home computer by Vortex Software in 1981. Nelson, Toby (9 March 2000). "A...
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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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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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Printer is a spark printer which was produced by Sinclair Research for its ZX81 home computer. It was launched in 1981, with a recommended retail price of...
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cartridge slot easily accessible at the rear of the machine (e.g. the Sinclair ZX81 or the VTech Laser 200[circular reference]), or via a user-accessible hatch...
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