With support for our 2068’s getting fewer and fewer, one bright spot is BYTE POWER.
Each issue comes on a cassette, and after receiving six, 1 an VERY satisfied with all. The price is $5.59 for one issue, $29.99 for 6, or $49.99 for 12. It works out to less than 49 cents per program. These prices are postage paid (it cost 91 cents for them to send mine).
The programs can be backed-up, even though most are in machine code. Details for this are in the text at the beginning of each tape. This text can be dumped (as of Feb 87′) to a 2040 or 80 column printer. Past issues can also be loaded in and printed out. The prior issues could only be read in 64 column on screen (which is hard on a television). However, now it be read 32 columns if so desired.
There are at least 19 and sometines 13-15 programs, utilities , graphic presentations and hints along with the text oп each tape. Programs consist of games, print & word processor, spreadsheets, music (programmed already and others programming your own), graphic (animated and draw your own), etc., etc.
Games have sound and graphics and can be catagorized as adventure, arcade, maze and others. Some do use joysticks when necessary.
Currently, all the programs are written for the TS-2068. However, there is a promise of Spectrum programs on side 2 of the next issue (March). As you can tell, the programers, Eric and Kris Boisvert, did get a little behind schedule during Christmas.
Instead of typing, de-bugging, and discovering that the program you envisioned isn’t what you thought it might be, BYTE POWER does it for you. I have never had to send back a tape that didn’t load properly. Although, I am sure that this must occur occasionally,
| would suggest ordering at least 1 issue ($5.50) to get you hooked.