Now that my Sharp MZ-80K is working again I've decided to archive the program tapes that I have. These were mostly written in the early 1980s on WH Smith C12 and C15 computer cassettes. All of them still appear to work, but I'm not sure that they'll survive another 40…
A post-apocolyptic driving game for one or more players. It feels very appropriate in the time of Brexit & Covid-19, despite what Haltemprice MP David Davis once said about sunlit uplands. You have to avoid the obstacles around the course to score points - one crash and you're out! The…
My implementation (from 1982) of Computing Today's "The Valley" adventure game. As a teenager, I was obviously too lazy to type the instructions into the code, but they are pretty simple. You start the game by chosing an adventurer type and giving them a name. You're then presented with a…
A simple prime number generator, using the sieve of Erastothenes algorithm (complexity n log n). The implementation was originally written for my RC2014 and translated into Sharp BASIC in early 2021 - thanks, pandemic! This means that unlike the RC2014 version, it is limited to scanning the first 255 whole…