Why Use the iPhone As A Gamer Platform?

Why Use the iPhone As A Gamer Platform? 

Mobile iPhone Gamer Article 1

 Thru out the years I've always been interested in computer gaming. I guess you can say that I've learned about gaming before I learned about computers. I guess you can call doing a crossword puzzle in a newspaper a type of game. The games that are in children's school books are a type of game. So you can say almost everybody has been exposed to some type of game.

 One of my first experiences of game programming came in the late '70s. A company that resided in England came out with one of the first personal computers for a person. This company was called Timex Sinclair and its cost was $99! They came out with a computer that you can build as a kit or was fully built.

It was about the size of a small book, had a keyboard that was flat with buttons and used any TV set for a monitor. It had on board color graphics, and stored programs on a cassette tape along with 1k (1024) bytes of memory. So you could have a 30 minute tape that could hold a lot of your programs! It also had an external memory module with 16k or aprox 16 thousand bytes of memory, and a thermal printer! Thats 16 thousand byes of computer memory, not like the 1 trillion bytes or 1 terra byes of  memory we have now!

It also had an 8-bit Z80 processor which at that time was a lot of computing power for an intergrated circuit IC. What's ironic is this processor is still used in micro controller applications for everyday common devices you use everyday.

In my next post I will continue with how it is programmed and how it history helped with the iPhone in later years.

 If you used this computer, I would like to hear about your experiences! Also do a WIKI for the ZX-81! Interesting stuff!

 Barry