Artic Computing

396 James Reckitt Ave, Hull, UK HU8 0JA

Products

Name Description Computers
1K Chess A good introduction to chess. Full graphic representation of the chess board is included. Single level of play. Does not accept castling or en-passant moves. Source code was published as a series of articles in Your Computer. Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable
1K Games A selection of 11 exciting games for the unexpanded ZX81 or T/S1000 computer. Games include: Slot Machine, Etch and Sketch, Slalom Ski, Catch Me If You Can, Space Pirate, Spacefire (2 versions), Car Crash, Man-Eating Budgies, Maze and the Wall. Timex/Sinclair 1000
Adventure A: Planet of Death In this machine code program you find yourself stranded on an alien planet. On this planet you will meet various hazards, including aliens, little green men, some natural – some not. Your aim is to escape this planet by finding your captured and disabled space ship. You really are the commander of your computer. Also Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable
Adventure B: Inca Curse In this adventure you find yourself in South America in the jungle, near an as-yet-undisturbed Inca temple. Inside this temple you will find lots of treasure, your aim is to get out with as much treasure as you can. Beware, do not let greed be your downfall. Your adventure is complete when you have returned Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable
Adventure C: Ship of Doom While on reconnaissance in space, your ship has been drawn by a graviton beam towards an alien cruiser. Fred, your pet android, informs you that the cruiser is on a humanoid slave mission. Its mission is to seek out humanoid planets from which the inhabitants are taken as slaves and their brains replaced by micro-chips! Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable
Adventure D: Espionage Island You have to survive an engine failure while flying over an apparently uninhabited island in the South Atlantic. Learn to treat the natives with respect, avoid capture and have the enemy and return with the island secret. Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable
Day finder, Sequence guess, Scetcher Programs for the 1K ZX80. Sinclair ZX80
Galaxy Warrior Defend your star base, hunt the Clingons and go through black holes. 16K. Timex/Sinclair 1000
Gobble Man You are chased around a maze by ghosts. If you can eat some magic food you have a chance of stopping the ghosts. This is a superb realization of this exciting game for the ZX81 and TS1000 computer. Written in machine code, with excellent graphics, there is also a personalized ‘high-score’. 16K. Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable
Hangman, Matchstick game, Battleships, Hi-low Games for the 1K ZX80. Sinclair ZX80
Invasion Force The huge mothership hovers above your base raining missiles and bombs down onto you. Blast through its force field and destroy it before you are disintegrated … but don’t hit the reconstruction zones or all the damage you did to the mothership is instantly rebuilt! Fast paced machine code action. 16K. Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable
KRAKIT Adventure game and treasure hunt. Be the first to crack the puzzle and the $20,000 prize which actually exists will be yours. Only one prize will be awarded. You have 12 clues. The answer to each is the name of a country, a city or town, and a number. According to Bill Ferrebee, Gladstone ended Timex/Sinclair 1000
LCM & HCF, Prime factors, Statistics, Bar-chart plotter Math programs for the 1K ZX80. Sinclair ZX80
LIFE 1/7 second per generation, with demo program. For the 2K ZX80. Sinclair ZX80
Line renumberer, Stopwatch, Len( $) Utilities for the 1K ZX80. Sinclair ZX80
Namtir Raiders Arcade game; four waves of invaders. 16K. Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable
STARTREK All the features of most larger games. For the 4K ZX80. Sinclair ZX80
Toolkit Features a number of utilities for programmers. RENUMBER, DELETE, MEMORY check, DUMP (displays current values of string and numerical values, except arrays), FIND a string, REPLACE a string, SAVE (transfers program to below RAMTOP), APPEND (joins 2 programs), REMKILL (removes all REM statements). Timex/Sinclair 1000
Zombies, Sink the Sub, Nim Games for the ZX80 with 3K RAM. Sinclair ZX80
Zombies/Sword of Peace In Sword Of Peace, free yourself from a dungeon to prove yourself worthy of becoming the Monarch of Oz. Zombies: Stranded on an island, your only hope to avoid the Zombies is to lure them into potholes. 16K. Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable

Books

Name Description Computers
ZX-80 BASIC A complete disassembled, annotated listing of the Sinclair 4K Basic, with cross reference table. Discover how and why your ZX-80 works. Sinclair ZX80

Periodicals

Downloads

Name Description Computers
Adventure A: Planet of Death Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000
Adventure B: Inca Curse Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000
Adventure C: Ship of Doom Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000
Adventure D: Espionage Island Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000
Chess Timex/Sinclair 1000
Invasion Force Timex/Sinclair 1000
Namtir Raiders Timex/Sinclair 1000
Zombies/Sword of Peace Timex/Sinclair 1000
ZX Bug Timex/Sinclair 1000
ZX Chess I Timex/Sinclair 1000
ZX Forth EPROM with ZX Forth. Timex/Sinclair 1000
ZX-Assembler Timex/Sinclair 1000
ZX-Chess II Timex/Sinclair 1000
ZX-FORTH Timex/Sinclair 1000
ZX-Galaxians Timex/Sinclair 1000

Articles

Title Description Computers
Fast Aliens (Galaxia) Review of the game from Artic Computing. Timex/Sinclair 1000
Resources (Sync v1 n5) Listing of new user groups, books and other resources.
Resources (Sync v2 n1) Listing of new user groups, books and other resources.
Resources (Sync v2 n4) Listing of new user groups, books and other resources. Timex/Sinclair 1000
Resources for the ZX80 and MicroAce (Sync v1 n3) Entries from manufacturers and readers. Includes the name of the item, a brief description, price and complete data on how to obtain it. MicroAce, Sinclair ZX80
Review of ZX Forth from Gladstone Review of the software, originally available from Artic Computing. Timex/Sinclair 1000
Software Review: ZX Galaxians Review of the Artic Computing program. Sinclair ZX80, Sinclair ZX81
ZX81 Chess vs. ZX Chess II Computer chess is becoming a very popular hobby for those who cannot find opponents on their level, and a large number of ”dedicated” machines are appearing with increasingly greater strengths. Another area of growing popularity is designing a chess program which is more powerful (i.e., a better player) than other chess programs. Two powerful chess Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000

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