Comparison of BASIC Keywords Between ZX Spectrum and Other <strong>Microcomputers</strong> Most <strong>microcomputers</strong> of the 1970s and 1980s incorporated BASIC within their operating systems. On these computers BASIC was not just a programming language and interpreter, but also a Disk/Tape operating system, Command Line Interpreter, and Editor. There was also a ...
... discuss speech synthesis without mentioning speech recognition. Speech recognition on the ZX Spectrum, like most <strong>microcomputers</strong> of the 1980s, was crude. Usually only a maximum of ten or twenty words could be recognised, but this was just enough to whet the appetite of computer hobbyists wishing for a taste of the future promised ...
... Lynx microcomputer and the ZX Spectrum.Released in 1983, the Camputers Lynx shared features with many of the <strong>microcomputers</strong> around at the time. Among the features to be found on the Lynx are structured BASIC statements such as REPEAT..UNTIL and WHILE..WEND, PAPER and INK statements which use the same colour codes as the ...
... a good many add-on peripherals which at the very least would improve the volume and at best would match the quality of <strong>microcomputers</strong> four or five times as expensive as the ZX Spectrum.The simplest way to improve the sound coming from the Spectrum is to take the signal from the MIC socket and pass it through an amplifier. Another way is ...