Relics: Tiny Computer Museum
Relics: Tiny Computer Museum by Gordon Shepherd: rank, rating, keywords, reviews and trend on the Apple App Store.
- Publisher
- Gordon Shepherd
- Category
- Entertainment
- Store
- Apple App Store
- Rating
- 5.00 from 1 ratings
- Price
- £3.99
- Top paid rank
- #31
- Released
- 2026-11-05
- Last updated
- 2026-11-11
About Relics: Tiny Computer Museum
Relics is a little museum of home computers that never existed: eight invented machines from 1978 to 2003, each one hand-drawn, each with its own boot sequence, its own operating system and its own secrets. REAL BASIC YOU CAN PROGRAM Magpie, Ember and Satchel start straight into BASIC, written from scratch for Relics. Type 10 PRINT "HELLO", then 20 GOTO 10, then RUN. FOR loops, GOSUB, arrays, strings, DATA, INPUT, INKEY$, colours, PLOT and DRAW, BEEP. Break stops anything, CONT carries on, SAVE and LOAD keep your programs on the machine's own disk. Each machine ships with example programs to list, run and pull apart. EVERY KEY WORKS Every key on every on-screen keyboard types, including the symbols BASIC needs. A hardware keyboard works too, and you can paste a whole listing in at once. Each key has its own click and a light tap of haptics. THE BRITISH MICROS Three invented machines from the years when Britain learned to program at the kitchen table. The Ember: a little black rubber-key slab whose colours bleed when they cross, and a tape that takes its time. The Satchel: the school micro with a > prompt, teletext-style pages and a queue to use it. The Magpie: the whole computer in one sloping keyboard, plugged into the telly. AND THE REST OF THE COLLECTION - Lattice-8 (1978): a mail-order kit with a hex monitor and notes left by its builders. - Quill (1987): a one-bit desktop with a menu bar and a waste basket. - Bastion 5 (1995): a grey tower that boots to a working pro
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