| 2068 Code Bytes #2 |
Second installment in a series on interrupt-driven Z80 machine language programming for the Timex/Sinclair 2068. Covers a BLINK routine that alternates two User Defined Graphics characters on screen using variables for timing, position, and attributes, followed by three sound-effects routines: a border-toggle BEEP, a gun/bomb effect, and a whistle-and-bang bomb effect. Full machine code listings |
Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| High Tech Without Knowledge |
An editorial arguing that powerful computing tools—word processors, spreadsheets, graphing software, and modeling programs—are being misused due to inadequate knowledge of grammar, statistics, and programming fundamentals. The author critiques flawed statistical reasoning, overreaching cosmological models, and poor software quality (including a dig at MS-DOS 6), then advocates learning C as a portable successor to BASIC. |
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