ZX81 denigrated! (was Re: Approaches to projects)

From: Gordon JC Pearce <gordon_at_gjcp.net>
Date: Sun Nov 28 05:30:17 2004

Ron Hudson wrote:
>
> On Nov 27, 2004, at 6:03 PM, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
>
>> Ron Hudson wrote:
>>
>>> On Nov 27, 2004, at 1:28 PM, Glen Goodwin wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> You regard it as horrible because . . . ?
>>>>
>>> Keboard is OK when you run an Emulation! :^) I don't have the real
>>> ZX81.
>>> I have some questions though...
>>> This is a spectrum emulator, ZXSP,
>>> functions? rnd in particular let x=rnd(?)
>>> I tried 0,1 blank, no "()" what?
>>> Trouble entering "for" isn't it "For var = start to finish"
>>
>>
>> RND should return a number between 0 and 0.999<whatever>
>
>
> Sure, but how is it called? rnd(0) rnd(1) rnd rnd() ?
>
> All of those gave rnd(?) when I press enter.

Just "RND" on its own. I don't know what kind of emulation you're
running, there should only be the keyword "RND" (without any brackets,
single keypress. <function-T> IIRC).
Gordon.
Received on Sun Nov 28 2004 - 05:30:17 GMT