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excerpt: "This article adapts a previously published Compute! program to the Sinclair ZX-81. It is also a brief tutorial on the special features of the ZX-81's BASIC, showing how you can reload programs without losing data previously saved. The program requires 16K."
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# Sinclair/Timex Guess That Animal

This article adapts a previously published Compute! program to the Sinclair ZX-81. It is also a brief tutorial on the special features of the ZX-81’s BASIC, showing how you can reload programs without losing data previously saved. The program requires 16K.