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Sinclair ZX-81 Flight Sims
Clive Sinclair invented Electric Cars and personal computers in the early 1980's and had a colourful, zany personality.... unlike many of today's leaders in the computer world.! Manual The code Screenshot RAM packs Notable feature : Sinclair ZX-81 Flight Sims ran in 1 K of memory (1024 bytes). " Flight Simulator" (actual name) for the Sinclair ZX-81, actually required you to have the 16kB expansion pack to load - in my opinion it was the best flight simulator ever when you look at full system utilization and optimization. I still have it in a box somewhere : - ) I would not load on the stock 1kB. " - Cian de Buitleir (2006) Gareth 'Goon' Evans remembers his first time: " My first sim experience was on the ZX81, but not the 16k version, the 1k version. A single line of text across the top of my black and white telly gave me various flight parameters of a hot air balloon, about five I think. The only control was of the gas burner. You went up, along and down. There were NO graphics whatsoever. I've been hooked ever since! It cameout of a very cheaply made book called something like 'Thirty games for the 1k ZX-81'. I'd love to see it again. There are so many titles I have had and forgotten, or thought I'd dreamt about that the museum is browsed through almost weekly. I wish I could give you some more details of the 'game' but it was so long ago. It definitely ran on the 1k machine. Something I painfully remember as being a child at the time I could not work out how to save listings to the tape, and would type in the code everytime I wanted to play! It's a constant source of amazement that my video card alone has 16,000 times more memory than the machine I started on." Gareth currently works at Staffordshire University Beaconside Campus and uses computers with more than 16 K of memory.... and still plays flight sims! |
My first sim experience was on the ZX81, but not the 16k version, the 1k version. From Planet Sinclair: Sir Clive Sinclair has been inventing electronic devices for over 35 years. Although he is best known for his computers, he has to date released over 70 different products ranging from amplifiers to multimeters to electric vehicles. He continues to produce new items at the rate of about one a year.
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