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Spectravideo Users Group of Tasmania 1.03

Published December 1983, issue 3 gives us lots of interesting articles, including one of the 1st publications of a listing by close friend Geoff Dickson, who graciously donated me his SVI-738 Express recently so I could make one working machine out of two.

There is also a Z80 Dissassembler written in Basic, and sadly, a review by me of one of my games, ‘Rescue’, later called ‘Lunar Rescue’. So going through these magazines, this places me starting to write software in 1983. 

Sounds about right, I remember getting the advanced brochures for the Spectravideo SVI-318 early in the year (my 1st year of college). 

I started out with a 2nd hand TI-99/4 computer, which Geoff and I spent hours programming, so we both warmed to the idea of the SVI-318 machine with the same graphics processor, more memory and powerful BASIC.

In this issue, we have:

  • Editorial
  • The CLOAD? command
  • Open files on a cassette
  • Antipodean delight
  • Shoot stars program
  • Unerase review
  • ON STRIG explanation
  • Luney – A game program
  • Z80 disassembler in BASIC
  • CUBE – program
  • Rescue – review
  • JP-80A Printer
  • Snoopy

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