Jupiter Ace Manual
Published on 31. March 2022
180 pages
978-1-78982-954-9 (ISBN)
Description
Launched at the peak of the legendary 1980s microcomputer rivalry, the Jupiter ACE was the most intriguing machine of them all, marketed by Jupiter Cantab. This company was founded by Richard Altwasser and Stephen Vickers - the key hardware and software designers for the legendary Sinclair ZX Spectrum.This collector's edition of the manual is an almost exact reproduction of the original that accompanied the Jupiter ACE and is brought to you by the current owners of the ACE brand as a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the launch of the special computer that so many people hold dear.The original designers wanted the Jupiter ACE to be a programmers' machine, and although sales were not necessarily stellar, they achieved exactly what they set out to. Now, almost forty years on, you can once again learn not only how to code the Jupiter ACE but also the foundations of the still-useful programming language FORTH.
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Steven Vickers
The Jupiter ACE Manual - 40th Anniversary Edition
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06/2021
Acorn Books
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Front Matter
- Publisher Information
- 35 Years On, The Jupiter Ace Lives Again!
- The Jupiter Ace Manual
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Setting Up the Ace
- Chapter 2: Typing at the Keyboard
- Chapter 3: Loading Programs From Tape
- Chapter 4: Defining New Words
- Chapter 5: Simple Arithmetic
- Chapter 6: Defining New Arithmetic Words
- Chapter 7: Altering Word Definitions
- Chapter 8: Words that are Really Numbers
- Chapter 9: Making Decisions
- Chapter 10: Repeating
- Chapter 11: Sound
- Chapter 12: The Character Set
- Chapter 13: Plotting Graphs
- Chapter 14: Saving Programs on Tape
- Chapter 15: Fractions and Decimal Points
- Chapter 16: Reading the Keyboard
- Chapter 17: Other Ways of Counting
- Chapter 18: Boolean Operations
- Chapter 19: More Advanced Arithmetic
- Chapter 20: Inside the Dictionary
- Chapter 21: Strings and Arrays
- Chapter 22: Vocabularies
- Chapter 23: Inside Colon Definitions
- Chapter 24: How the Memory is Laid Out
- Chapter 25: Machine Code
- Chapter 26: Extending the Ace
- Back Matter
- Appendices
- A: The Character Set
- B: Error Codes
- C: The Jupiter Ace - For Reference
- D: Quick Guide for 'FORTH' Enthusiasts
- About the Author
- About FORTH
- Original Print Information
