The evolution of 8-bit
As you can tell from looking back over previous Dec/Jan postings , I tend to get a little nostalgic for the good old days of working with computers. I once had an entire bedroom (named the '8-bit room') that was full and I mean full of just Amstrad CPC related micro-computers and peripherals. I even had all the modern gadgets hooked up to do a variety of things. Why the Amstrad? Well, that's what I received as an xmas present back in 1985 and sort of set me off on my IT journey. I even taught myself Z80 assembler and wrote a computer game (in 2009!), I have the .dsk file knocking around someplace. It was fun and something I never achieved as a kid. Here's a couple of screenshots from the PiCade ( I still have the .DSK file, but I have no idea where the original code went or even how to compile/build etc... I think all that has been lost to time ). I had to plug a keyboard into the PiCade as the genius that I am, I required you to pre...