Miscellaneous Programs

Date: 198x
Type: Cassette
Platform(s): TS 2068

A 27-program tape of uncategorized TS 2068 software spanning games, holiday cards, creative tools, and simulations.

Content

Aid

Program

A full ELIZA-style therapy chatbot that matches keywords, swaps pronouns, and personalises every response with your name across a 20-exchange session.

Basic Renumber

Program

A two-part BASIC renumbering tool that walks raw program memory, patches line-number headers with POKE, and reports every GO TO and GO SUB target that needs updating.

Boggle

Program

A three-language Boggle clone that generates random letter dice, times two players simultaneously, and scores words by length—with full Spanish and German character support via custom UDGs.

Bridge

Program

A fully playable bridge hand trainer that deals, displays with suit symbols, and tracks all 13 tricks — complete with contract entry and audio feedback at key trick counts.

Concentration

Program

A one-player Concentration card game with all 52 cards laid out in a numbered grid, UDG suit symbols in red and black, and a turn counter tracking efficiency to the final pair.

Constellations

Program

A randomised astronomy quiz draws 28 constellations using custom UDG star glyphs, then challenges you to name each one and its brightest star.

December 25

Program

A self-contained animated Christmas card that combines UDG graphics, scrolling banners, AY chip music, and three-voice melody encoding into a single looping BASIC program.

Designer

Program

A viewport-clipped vector drawing tool that stores line segments as packed binary strings and supports real-time scale and rotation transformations from a menu-driven interface.

Fun Golf

Program

A procedurally generated golf game for one or two players uses trigonometry, attribute-based terrain detection, and five custom graphics to simulate a full 9- or 18-hole course.

Gem Pattern

Program

Generates progressively more complex rings of randomized diamond and square shapes in XOR draw mode, erasing each image with a four-directional animated wipe before restarting with added complexity.

Hell's Angels

Program

Your unenviable task to once again defend the Earth from the alien hordes - this time in the shape of angels from Hell and then by a number of demons.

I.T. (The Intraterrestrial)

Program

Navigate a 36-room cave, battle monsters with a state-machine AI, and defuse a bomb whose solution hides in a single ASCII arithmetic check.

Jingle Bells

Program

A BASIC rendition of "Jingle Bells" that layers AY chip chords beneath a BEEP melody using computed GO SUB dispatch and clever data encoding tricks.

Keyboard Tutor

Program

A typing tutor that draws a UDG keyboard on screen, scores your keystrokes in real time, and reports accuracy as a percentage.

Kingdom

Program

A five-year kingdom management game where players juggle floods, famine, and thieves — with animated raiders and a market economy — to become the wealthiest ruler.

Knight Fight

Program

Two knights charge across the screen in this equipment-buying jousting game, where armour, lance weight, and RND combine to decide who takes the hit.

M*5

Program

Guide the starship M*5 safely to Moon Base 2 by answering 36 planet-trivia questions before your calculated speed hits zero and you crash.

MC Renumber

Program

Machine code routine to renumber programs. Uses lines 0 and 9999.

Patterns

Program

Draw a 16×16 pixel pattern, watch it spin through four rotations encoded as UDGs, then scroll it freely around the screen.

Poker

Program

A fully featured draw poker game with custom card graphics, a computerised opponent that reasons about its hand, and a complete betting system — all in BASIC.

Pontoon

Program

Pontoon game with UDG-drawn playing cards — rounded box-frame cards displaying suit symbols and face values — and a running cash balance against a randomly resolved dealer hand.

Quest

Program

A full 42-location pirate treasure hunt where the map is encoded in a compact DATA table and a roaming antagonist can snatch your hard-won loot.

Skyplot

Program

A randomised constellation quiz draws 28 star fields using UDG characters, then challenges you to name each pattern and its brightest star.

Slot

Program

A full-featured one-armed bandit with animated reels, jokers, holds, a gamble round, and a double-up bonus — all driven by computed GO TO dispatch.

Stock Exchange

Program

Start with $10,000 and trade five stocks over weekly rounds, watching for dividends and splits in this BASIC market simulation.

Tree

Program

A Christmas card program with a UDG-built decorated tree, Jingle Bells melody with three-voice AY chord accompaniment, and a scrolling seasonal greeting.

Word Images

Program

This random sentence generator lets you define custom word-order templates or choose from seven presets, then displays the results in a striking vertical typographic layout.

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Tags

Archived Media Downloadable TS 2068 Collection