ZX81 denigrated! (was Re: Approaches to projects)

[Jules Richardson]

On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 18:27 -0800, Ron Hudson wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2004, at 6:03 PM, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
> 
> > Ron Hudson wrote:
> >> On Nov 27, 2004, at 1:28 PM, Glen Goodwin wrote:
> >>>
> >>> You regard it as horrible because . . . ?
> >>>
> >> Keboard is OK when you run an Emulation! :^)  I don't have the real 
> >> ZX81.
> >> I have some questions though...
> >> This is a spectrum emulator, ZXSP,
> >> functions? rnd in particular     let x=rnd(?)
> >> I tried 0,1 blank, no "()"  what?
> >> Trouble entering "for"  isn't it  "For var = start to finish"
> >
> > RND should return a number between 0 and 0.999<whatever>
> 
> Sure, but how is it called?   rnd(0) rnd(1) rnd rnd() ?
> 
> All of those gave rnd(?) when I press enter.

Just rnd I think, no parameters, brackets etc. - 'let x=rnd' should
work.

That 'for' syntax looks right too.

Hmm, the BASIC *might* be picky about spaces btw.

cheers

Jules