{"id":662,"date":"2025-05-18T18:06:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T08:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electricadventures.net\/?p=662"},"modified":"2025-05-18T18:06:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T08:06:19","slug":"spectravideo-users-group-of-tasmania-1-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"Spectravideo Users Group of Tasmania 1.03"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is also a Z80 Dissassembler written in Basic, and sadly, a review by me of one of my games, &#8216;Rescue&#8217;, later called &#8216;Lunar Rescue&#8217;.\u00a0So going through these magazines, this places me starting to write software in 1983.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sounds about right, I remember getting the advanced brochures for the Spectravideo SVI-318 early in the year (my 1st year of college).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this issue, we have:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Editorial<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The CLOAD? command<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open files on a cassette<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Antipodean delight<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shoot stars program<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Unerase review<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ON STRIG explanation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Luney &#8211; A game program<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Z80 disassembler in BASIC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CUBE &#8211; program<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rescue &#8211; review<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>JP-80A Printer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Snoopy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-90-724x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-663\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tony-cruise\/ElectricAdventuresArchive\/blob\/main\/Magazines\/SAUG.1.03.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download the full magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-saug"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}