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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The following is a list of clones of Sinclair Research's ZX80 and ZX81 home computers: MicroAce (1980, US) Microdigital TK80 (1981, Brazil) Microdigital...
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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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(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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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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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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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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3D Monster Maze (category ZX81 games)
J.K. Greye and programmed by Malcolm Evans and released in 1981 for the ZX81 with the 16 KB memory expansion. The game was initially released by J. K...
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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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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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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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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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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 through retailers, 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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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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Sinclair BASIC (category ZX81)
which had negative impact on performance. When the system was ported to the ZX81 in 1981, a full floating point implementation was added. This version was...
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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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contains the audio tones for three programs Sievey created for the Sinclair ZX81 computer. Two programs were for a video game Sievey created called Flying...
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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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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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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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1980s 8-bit computer systems including Binatone, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, ZX81 and BBC Micro. In August 2004, the group reached number 3 in the UK Singles...
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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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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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string inserted is too long, it is truncated. The concept is mentioned in the ZX81 and ZX Spectrum user manuals, where a portion of a string is replaced by...
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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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Czerweny Electrónica (category Sinclair ZX81 clones)
rebranded version of the Timex Sinclair 1000, itself a clone of the Sinclair ZX81. This compact and minimalist machine came equipped with just 2 KB of RAM...
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