Last week I wrote about the diving I've done back into Spectrum BASIC coding.

I have to say that it's been a LOT of hard work to update the old code. Updating it to work on all the newer machines and emulators, while still being able to fit the original code's purpose; to work on a 16Kb con...

In this day and age most coders won't get out of bed unless there's a syntax-highlighting intellisense-enabled, bracket-matching, library-aware, compiler-linked IDE to use. It's a far cry from the old days when all you had was a keyboard..... yeah, not even an editor... you just turned the machin...