Merry Christmas One and All

[gunrock]

Hi folks,

Just got done wrapping the kids presents and it got me all Christmassy and fuzzy feeling (that could have been the beer, though!).

Hope you are having a great time over the Xmas period and that you get time to tinker with your Memotech systems. I personally, am hoping to fiddle with some software, get to understand how to use the oscilloscope that I got six-months ago and maybe work on a hardware project, time willing.

All the best.

[Martin A]

Season's Greetings one and all!

The MTX has been on this morning, (failing to replicate some issues Dave's having) and will probably be on again later. It wouldn't be the holidays without some MTX time.

[Dave]

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[1024MAK]

Merry Christmas

Mark

[Potholepete]

Happy Christmas and I hope its a good one for you all

[acsi]

Merry Christmas and thanks for all the help throughout the year.

Hope Santa is kind.

[stephen_usher]

Merry Christmas!

[gunrock]

Happy New Year folks!!

So, a bit late for Xmas but there was a Vintage Computer Christmas Challenge to recreate this image:

VCCC2023

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In any language, but make it as small as possible. So here is my effort:

Effort

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The code is this:

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5 CSR 11,0: PRINT "MEMOTECH MTX BASIC"
6 CSR 0.5: PRINT "#VCCC2023";: CSR 30,7: PRINT "CHRISTMAS";
7 CSR 30,8: PRINT "CHALLENGE"
10 LET STX=6: LET MINX=8
20 LET P=0: LET ST=1
30 FOR y=2 TO 20
40 FOR X=0 TO P
50 FOR STAR=O TO 2
60 LET POINT=((STAR+1)*STX)+MINX+P
65 CSR POINT,Y: PRINT "*";
66 CSR (POINT-2*P),Y: PRINT "*";
70 NEXT STAR
80 NEXT X
90 LET P=P+ST
95 IF P=3 THEN LET ST=-ST
105 IF P=0 THEN LET ST=-ST
110 NEXT Y
120 PAUSE 8000

Definitely could do some other things to make it smaller. However, why are Memotech SDX Basic files so big?

User stat

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8 records is 128x8, which is 1024 bytes. Seems quite a lot. So I went back and did a simple:

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10 PRINT "MEMOTECH MTX 2023";
20 GOTO 10

and that is 5 records, a whopping 640 bytes. Seems a bit large to me?

[Martin A]

The system variables and the default sound buffers are saved with a basic file.

For disc basoc typically that's 4 + 0x259, or 605 bytes. before you get to the actual basic listing.

[gunrock]

Thanks Martin. Interesting that SDX basic saves the sound buffers? I mean, ordinary MTX basic doesn't, does it? Odd decision, or so it seems.