In 1991, Andre Baune of Quebec, Canada, published a newsletter called “ZX-91: 10 Years Later.” It was a newsletter for the ZX81, created solely on the ZX81, with 16k and a TS 2040 printer.
Andre used Word Sinc Il as the wordprocessor and it was able to do lower case letters on the TS 2040 printer. The lower case letters made the publication look much better than using the default upper case only character set. Andre also included graphic images in the newsletter, which looked good even if only using low-resolution graphics.
Andre published 5 issues in total. I was lucky enough to be on the mailing list for all of the issues.
My collection of ZX-91 issues have been sitting on a pile of other newsletters in the garage. When I pass that part of the garage, I see the newsletter. This got me thinking, “would it be possible to create a similar tupe of newsletter using only ZX81 tools.” The whole look of the newsletter had to be done on the ZX81. I am allowing for any software that takes advantage of expanded hardware options, like ZXpand that provide for extra memory, hi-res graphics, and saving files to disk.
ZX-26 is my attempt of this challenge. ZX-91 was called that because if came out in 1991. With this being 2026, I am calling this ZX-26. This will be a single issue done as an experiment in ZX81 publishing.
The first part of my challenge was to find the tools to create the newsletter. For word processing, I tried Word Sinc Il, but it will not save a file when running on the sz81 emulator. I then remembered Zeditor that I had reviewed before. I found it be to a capable word processor, that can save and print documents, and even export them if needed. All text parts of ZX-26 have been created using Zeditor.