Look at me everybody, I’m a computer programmer!!!
MemoirBASICMy brother typed in a Hello World loop from the orange Sinclair manual. I changed one line, hit RUN, and turned around for an audience that wasn't there.
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Technical deep dives, programming tricks, ROM lore and other long-form pieces about the ZX Spectrum and how it really works.
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The Golf Course
MemoirINPUT MagazineBASICA whole issue of INPUT magazine, typed in blind and left to render for the length of a coffee break — and a brother who wanted to know why none of it was a game.
Tetris in Real ZX BASIC
AI BASICGameOriginalEvery other program on this site is hand-written Z80 machine code. This one is the opposite extreme: a full, playable Tetris in the Spectrum's own interpreted BASIC — seven-piece rotation, line clears, scoring, the lot — plus the real ROM quirks it took to make it fast enough to play.