---
title: "Lights of the City"
type: "article"
slug: "lights-of-the-city"
url: "http://localhost/article/lights-of-the-city/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/article/lights-of-the-city.md"
published_at: "2020-10-27T17:11:05+00:00"
modified_at: "2024-06-23T00:47:52+00:00"
featured_image:
  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg"
excerpt: "This program uses the 8K ROM's graphics and animation capabilities to generate an ever-changing video pattern like a growing city."
category:
  - name: "Syntax"
    slug: "syntax"
    taxonomy: "category"
    url: "http://localhost/category/periodicals/syntax/"
post_tag:
  - name: "1981"
    slug: "year-1981"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/year-1981/"
  - name: "Type-in program"
    slug: "type-in-program"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/type-in-program/"
  - name: "ZX80"
    slug: "zx80"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/zx80/"
model:
  - name: "Sinclair ZX80"
    slug: "zx80"
    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/zx80/"
publication: "Syntax"
publication_r:
  id: 10246
  title: "Syntax"
  type: "periodical"
  url: "http://localhost/periodical/syntax/"
volume: "2"
issue: "1"
issues_articles:
  - id: 26693
    title: "Syntax/Syntax ZX80 v2 n1"
    type: "issue"
    url: "http://localhost/issue/syntax-syntax-zx80-v2-n1/"
pages: "12"
pubdate: "January 1981"
archive_link: false
volumeissue: "v2n1"
---

This program uses the 8K ROM’s graphics and animation capabilities to generate an ever-changing video pattern like a growing city.