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Quicksilva

426 W. Nakoma, San Antonio, TX 78216

British hardware and software company.

Products

Name Description Computers
1K RAM Board Static RAM; expands internal memory to 2K. Sinclair ZX80
2K RAM Board Static RAM; expands internal memory to 3K. Sinclair ZX80
3D Black Star Explosions mushroom around you; the rear scanner shows pursuing craft. Increase speed and fire; dodge from side to side of the narrow corridor. Fast 3D graphics, warp drive and full instrument display. Timex/Sinclair 1000
3D Strategy Tic-tac-toe played on a 4x4x4 grid; four in a line needed to win.
3K RAM Board Static RAM; expands internal memory to 4K. Sinclair ZX80, Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000
Alien Invasion A dark cloud appears on the horizon and inches towards you. The invasion is on and they fire, blowing away bits of your shields. You thrust left and right, avoiding bombs while you knock the invaders off one by one. But they inch closer, thirteen rows, seven to a row. Can you get them before Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable
Aquaplane Ski through marine maniacs but beware of the rocks, the regattas, the speed boats, and most especially the Great White Hungrys. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Astro Blaster Space shooter inspired by Galaxian. Timex/Sinclair 2068, Downloadable
Bugaboo the Flea You play the part of a flea trapped in a colorful cave full of wild and exotic vegetation. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Croaka Crawla It’s not easy being a frog what with the trucks and toads, the crocodiles and turtles. Frogger clone. Timex/Sinclair 1000
Cybird Assault Alien creatures with cosmic autowings flapping furiously, swoop down to attack your ship in the space void. Dodge the remote control meteors as you desperately fight back with your laser cannons. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Damper/Glooper A grid runner is needed to shut down the power grid of the city as the space leaches attack. A cable cycle is provided; the rest is up to you. Glooper: Pacman clone. Timex/Sinclair 1000
Galaxians & Gloops The peaceful Fragnn battle the large Wobbly Galaxian birds with a device built of dragon gut and with small furry bombs. Timex/Sinclair 1000
Ghost Town This adventure takes you back to the good ole west. You have to find Jake Clamplett’s gold mine and hidden gold. Then return to town surviving the desert. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Gridrunner Devilishly fast arcade game not unlike Centipede. You control a combat ship, the Gridrunner. Above you are the Gridsearch squads, caterpillar types who run in a line across each level of the grid and quickly descend to the next. If you knock off the caterpillar units one at a time and in order, you’re OK, Timex/Sinclair 2068
Laser Zone You’re in control of the Zone Gunner. Faced with a choice between prolonged painful death at the hands of an enraged llama or a rapid, glorious death wreathed in laser-fire in 6-space, what could you do but represent your race in an awesome battle of skill and dexterity? One or two players, 30 levels of Timex/Sinclair 2068, Downloadable
Lost You are lost in a clearing surrounded by a forest and mountains with only 5 days supply of food and water. Using your wits, and a club or stone, can you fight the elements, your own hunger and thirst, to reach safety? You must scavenge off the land to help you survive. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Mined Out You are presented with a blank field, densely sown with mines. You must get to the other side without blowing up. Level two offers maidens in distress to be rescued; higher levels confront you with things that chase and make you move quickly. Nine levels. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Munchees Beware of the Munchees. A board creaks in the time lost corridors. A ghostly presence,a rush of wind, a forgotten echo whispering around the house and a chuckle of ghosts rolling forward on cold breezes. Pacman clone. Timex/Sinclair 1000
Pioneer Trail Western adventure based on historical data. Twenty levels of play. Rifle speed uses all keys and is measured against the player’s personal response. Sinclair version of Oregon Trail. Timex/Sinclair 1000
QS 16K RAM Cased dynamic RAM expansion. Timex/Sinclair 1000
QS Asteroids High resolution version of Asteroids. Timex/Sinclair 1000
QS CHRS Board Character generator giving 128 separately programmable characters. 1K on board RAM. Enables creation and display of your own characters to screen or printer. Maps 1K RAM to 8400h-87FFh, allowing for 128 custom characters (64 normal and 64 inverted characters). Each character can be individually defined. The RAM contained random data at power-up, resulting in a Timex/Sinclair 1000
QS Defender Faithful reproduction of the arcade game. Supports QS SOUND Board. Moving planetary surface. Up to 84 fast moving characters on screen at once. Ten missiles at once. 16K. Timex/Sinclair 1000
QS HI-RES Board High resolution graphics board giving 256×192 pixels. 2K ROM, 6K RAM on board. Software select/deselect. Mixed text and graphics. Resident machine code graphics software provides these commands: MOVE x,y; PLOT x,y; DRAW x,y; PRINT X$; COPY; BLACK; WHITE; CLEAR. Timex/Sinclair 1000
QS Motherboard Allows for connecting 16K RAM pack, QS Sound Board and another board. Sinclair ZX80, Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000
QS Scramble A landscape of mountains, plateaus and valleys slide under you ship as waves of aliens descend, firing from above, and rockets launch from below. Timex/Sinclair 1000
QS Sound Board AY-3-8910 sound generator based sound synthesizer. Three voices, 5 octave range. Sinclair Place imported a version manufactured by Indescomp. Sinclair ZX80, Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000
Queztalcoatl You are trapped in an Aztec temple and can only escape through the passage risking vengeance from the gods. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Robber Your objective is a castle dungeon vault where you have it on very good authority that many untold riches are kept in a safe. The guard is constantly patrolling the premises with his powerful flashlight. More problems come to light with a bridge that systematically seems to have sections that just disappear, flooded caves, man Timex/Sinclair 2068
Smuggler's Cove It’s 1753 and you are on a hunt for Blackbeard’s famous treasure, hidden in a complex of caves on the north Cornish Coast. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Starfire Rid the galaxy of the Xtardan Cruisers. A game of strategy and skill. You are the commander of the only remaining Earth Space Agency ship in the entire galaxy. The rest of the fleet has been wiped out by a powerful alien force leaving you to navigate the entire galaxy and destroy the alien fighters Timex/Sinclair 2068, Downloadable
Subspace Striker You are commander of the Swordfish, a subspace striker, the most feared class of attack craft in the galaxy. Your mission is to disrupt the Federation space lanes, to sever their vital supplies. You are likely to be attacked if you miss with your torpedoes, but even if you hit you must watch out. 16K. Timex/Sinclair 1000
The Chess Player Six skill levels with varying response times. A good beginner’s program, because the computer can be beaten in the lower skill levels, Timex/Sinclair 2068, Downloadable
The Island You are the fortunate recipient of the news that there is treasure buried on an island in the complex of islands that surrounds your own. Your task is threefold: first, you must locate the treasure island, second, you must find the treasure on it, and third, you must bring the treasure to your own island. Timex/Sinclair 2068
The Snowman You must collect pieces of snow in order to build the snowman. Points are awarded for each piece of snow that is dropped into place You must avoid gas flames that tend to melt your snow, pick up flashing objects to get extra points, collect ice lollies to help keep your snow from melting and Timex/Sinclair 2068
The Trader Trilogy A trilogy of programs that combine to give and epic graphic adventure. As an intergalactic door to door salesperson, you do the rounds of the Moons of Meridian. Timex/Sinclair 2068, Downloadable
Time-Gate 3D moving star backgrounds give a real space feeling to this 5-skill level game. Long range scan shows you where the enemy are and you jump through space to the correct sector. If you’re successful at clearing the entire galaxy you can land on the aliens’ planet to refuel before jumping the timegate to another Timex/Sinclair 2068, Downloadable
Trader As a galactic trader, you deal with some bizarre customers. Will you live to tell the tale? Trilogy of games. Variables are passed between programs to provide continuity. Fully animated illustrations. 16K. Timex/Sinclair 1000
Traxx Capture squares for points, if you can capture all four corners of the grid, you’ll have only 10 seconds to eat the bugs (the pursuers). Timex/Sinclair 2068, Downloadable
Velnor's Lair Lose yourself in the Goblin Labyrinth amongst demons, trolls, the undead, and the evil Wizard Velnor. Do you know how to take care of Medusa and other demons? A warriors and wizards, sword and sorcery adventure that will give hours of fun, while picking your your brain for decisions. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Xadom 3D hi-res arcade quality adventure where you have to find an artifact stashed in one of 20 rooms. Every room offers a new challenge that must be overcome before it is possible to move on to the next room. Timex/Sinclair 2068, Downloadable

Books

Periodicals

Documents

Downloads

Name Description Computers
Astro Blaster Space shooter inspired by Galaxian. Timex/Sinclair 2068
The Chess Player Timex/Sinclair 2068
Trader Trilogy Timex/Sinclair 2068

Articles

Title Description Computers
Ant Attack Review of the ZX Spectrum game, running on Spectrum emulator. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Bits and Pieces AERCO FD-68 disk drive interface; A & J Model 2000 stringy floppy; RAMEX offers Millenia K disk interface/package; T/S Smart Terminal Telecommunications guide; ZX81 software; Knighted Computers obtains Quicksilva software rights; new buyer’s guide from D. Lipinksi; other updates.
Bugaboo Review of the game. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Disappearing Computers: A Progress Report Resources for orphaned computer users.
Nine Defenders Against the Aliens Review of Quicksilva’s Defender. Sinclair ZX80, Sinclair ZX81
Resources (Sync v1 n4) Listing of new user groups, books and other resources. MicroAce
Resources (Sync v3 n6) Listing of new user groups, books and other resources. Timex/Sinclair 1000
Resources (Sync v4 n1) Listing of new user groups, books and other resources. Timex/Sinclair 1000
Resources for the ZX-80 and MicroAce (Sync v1 n1) Currently available hardware, software, books and user groups and newsleters. MicroAce, Sinclair ZX80
Review: Bugaboo Review of the Quicksilva game for the TS 2068. Timex/Sinclair 2068
The "QS Sound Board" for the ZX80/81 Based on the extremely versatile AY-3-8910 sound generator chip, the QS Sound Board features complete software control of the frequency and amplitude of three independent output channels as well as an envelope shaper and noise channel. Mentions QS Motherboard, which allows connecting 16K RAM and sound board at the same time. Sinclair ZX80, Sinclair ZX81
The "QS Sound Board" for the ZX80/81 Based on the extremely versatile AY-3-8910 sound generator chip, the QS Sound Board features complete software control of the frequency and amplitude of three independent output channels as well as an envelope shaper and noise channel. Mentions QS Motherboard, which allows connecting 16K RAM and sound board at the same time. Sinclair ZX80, Sinclair ZX81
The Quicksilva Programmable Character Generator The Quicksilva Programmable Character Generator is a single circuit board which plugs into the QS Motherboard or the QS Edge Connector which plugs into the back of the ZX81. Once installed, it lets the user program 128 different characters rather than the previous 64 and their inverses. After the board has been programmed, it can Sinclair ZX80, Sinclair ZX81
Timegate Timex/Sinclair 2068
Vendor Report and Notes Updates from Barlog Software, Tom Woods, Biocal, Quicksilva, Memotech.

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