Re: Radio 1 Chip-Shop.

[Jeff Braine <zzjbrain@uq.net.au>]

On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Niall Tracey wrote:

> A car-boot sale trawl has landed in my lap a Radio 1 Chip Shop Basicode 2+
> loader tape with routines for C64, vic20, apple2, PET, BBC A/B, Electron, 
> Sharp MZ80A, MZ80K, Oric/Atmos, TRS/Videogenie and ZX Spectrum 48k.
> 
> (OK, so no amstrad, but some of you may be able to help me out here.
> Please, bear with me...)

It was WAY before Amstrad. Think there was a ZX81 routine around too
(could be wrong)
 
> It was just the tape, and the obscure early eighties DJ's voice kept
> referring me to the handbook. I haven't loaded the loaders on any of my
> compatible machines yet, so haven't been able to test the demo program.
> Can anyone who was about in those 'good old days' of radio computer games
> tell me what this program can cope with, ie what commands it will accept
> if I wanted to write portable code (which would rely on other people
> having it of course, but I'm sure it will magically appear on the web at
> some point) to post on the web.

All it did was save whatever files you wanted onto tape in a common
format so that all the machines you listed could read it. It wasn't
a replacement for BASIC or anything, just the load and save routines.

I vaguely remember trying to use it to port something from a Spectrum to
a BBC (would have required a big rewrite!!), but with no success.


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Jeff Braine
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