Both Tasword and Masterfile were desendents of #ZX81 applications & ZX81 programmers use a lot of tricks to save RAM - in particular using mathematical operators instead of numbers for common integers!

Just check out this bit of code from the Tasword 3 BASIC loader!

Apart from figuring out how it all works, which versions of what work on a 48K Spectrum, and how to transfer from .opd and .tzx to .mdr, I also discovered something about writing ultra-memory-efficient BASIC...

Here's the file catalogue. Everything works: T2T3 to convert version 2 docs to version 3; and the MF and TM programmes that modify Masterfile v09 to produce Tasword 3 compatible data merge files. I've tested the mail merge features and it all works - it's impressively feature-rich actually.

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It’s certainly brought us closer together as friends, especially as we now live so far apart from each other, but more than that, it’s given us a deep appreciation for just how good this game was and still is! ❤️🐠

We can’t wait for the next one!!

You can check out the whole podcast playlist at the link attached to this thread, and there’s a bonus chat between me and Lee at the end of the final episode where we discuss the whole effort and what the experience has been like for us 🙂

I think we’ve definitely shown that it’s possible though, and that it makes for an enjoyable listening experience - thanks so much to anyone who’s been listening and/or watching along over the last four months!

We’re definitely going to run another game, but probably won’t be producing a podcast as it’s really a lot of extra effort.