The Coxsoft Museum
Welcome!
Back in the 1980's, before we had wall-to-wall PC's,
home computer shows offered an opportunity to choose
between dozens of different home computers: Vic 20,
Oric 1, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Dragon 32, Acorn
Electron and many more. We really had choice in those
days. We argued over the merits of our computers as
though they were football teams. Toddlers wrote BASIC
programs while still chewing their teething rings, and
schoolboys wrote in machine code. Star programmers
like Mike Singleton squeezed massive games into 48KB.
Today, "programmers" fill 10MG with a software patch!
I wrote Starship Valiant for the Oric 1, rejected the £60
Tansoft offered to pay me for it and moved on to the ZX
Spectrum. I began Coxsoft on the Enterprise Allowance
Scheme. The software below is from my Speccy days.
It is archived at World of Spectrum. You can download
it free, together with a free ZX Spectrum emulator.
Above, loading screens. Below, sample pages
There have been many computer chess programs, but,
as far as I know, Learn Chess is still the only program
that teaches chess from scratch. It runs much more
slowly on my emulator than it does on an old Speccy.
If you own a 48K/128K Speccy and wish to buy a copy
of Learn Chess, e-mail me. I still have a few left.
Home Builder (1987): mental arithmetic for kids:
every correct answer wins a brick for the house.
Nature Trail (1988): a graphic nature adventure:
Explore the map and search habitats to find bugs.
Note: the ZX Spectrum has only 8 colours plus Bright on/off!
Old cassette covers digitized by Tony Barnett.
Visit ZX Software.co.uk.
To visit World of Spectrum click here.
Sword graphic supplied by Feebleminds Animated GIFs.
