CATS Library Tape 6

Date: 1986
Type: Cassette
Platform(s): TS 2068

A 20-program collection from the Capital Area Timex Sinclair User Group mixing arcade action with educational software.

Content

3D Draw

Program

Sketch two cross-section curves live with the keyboard, then watch a 3D surface graph render itself across both axes from your input.

3D Words

Program

Render bold 3D block letters on screen in three sizes, drawn pixel-by-pixel from the built-in font using PLOT and DRAW geometry tricks.

Artic Explorer

Program

Guide your explorer across treacherous arctic terrain using string-rotation scrolling, UDG sprites, and seven distinct levels of icy obstacle patterns.

BELLTOWER

Program

Guide a rabbit through five haunted rooms, collecting bells and dodging bats in this multi-room platform game with user-defined graphics and attribute-based collision detection.

BLOKMAN

Program

Guide a two-cell sprite through enemy-packed screens, defuse TNT against a shrinking timer bar, and grab bonus flags in this two-stage action game.

Cat 'n' Mouse

Program

Guide a cat through a crowded playfield, eating 50 mice while dodging deadly rats that multiply with every catch — how fast can you clear the board?

CURSOR

Program

Discover how a single POKE into one system variable transforms the appearance of the input cursor through seven distinct visual styles.

Cursor Adventure

Program

Navigate inside a computer, collect colored wires, and defeat the evil Cursor before your time runs out in this inventory-based text adventure.

FILL

Program

A pixel flood-fill routine lets you navigate a pointer into any enclosed graphic region and fill it solid with a single keypress.

Geography Quiz

Program

A hand-drawn color map of North America sets the scene for a state-capitals quiz that reads your answer and tells you where you went wrong.

GHOTI

Program

Guide your fish through a bubble-filled swamp, eating plankton for survival while dodging diving turtles in this arcade game with UDG sprites and a skill-level timer.

Manimation

Program

A walking stick-figure animation that pushes the UDG system to 80 characters by swapping multiple graphics tables on the fly using direct memory POKEs.

MTOS

Program

A multi-program memory manager lets you keep a whole suite of utilities resident at once, switching between them by poking the BASIC program pointer directly.

Munchie Man

Program

A joystick-driven Pac-Man clone uses nine custom sprite characters, an ASCII-art maze, and a randomly wandering ghost to challenge your dot-eating reflexes.

Spanish Builder I

Program

A two-way vocabulary quiz lets you drill word pairs in either direction, tracking which words you've already answered to avoid repeats within a round.

Spanish Builder II

Program

A two-way vocabulary quiz lets you drill either direction through a word list, tracking each answer to avoid repeating questions within a round.

Spanish Tutor

Program

An interactive Spanish tutor automatically conjugates any regular verb you enter and teaches suffixes, opposites, and question words with scrolling example sentences.

TEXTYPE

Program

A full-screen text editor with search-and-replace, justified output, printer support, custom typefaces, and 21 user-defined graphics — all in pure BASIC.

Wagoner's Walk

Program

A four-wagon race betting game where random movement, time bonuses, and five taunting replay messages keep the excitement going until your money runs out.

WORDSQUARE

Program

Build and solve your own word search puzzles with this BASIC program that places words in eight directions across a 20×20 letter grid.

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Archived Media Capital Area Timex Sinclair Users Group Downloadable TS 2068 Collection