ZX81 denigrated! (was Re: Approaches to projects)

[Gordon JC Pearce]

Ron Hudson wrote:
> 
> On Nov 27, 2004, at 6:03 PM, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
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>> Ron Hudson wrote:
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>>> 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" on its own.  I don't know what kind of emulation you're 
running, there should only be the keyword "RND" (without any brackets, 
single keypress.  <function-T> IIRC).
Gordon.