SINCUS Exchange Tape 101 – Entertainment

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

Exchange Tape 101 of the Sinclair Computer Users Society (SINCUS), the entertainment tape: 33 programs, nearly all of them games (arcade, maze, lander, card and board games), with a biorhythm plotter, maths practice, an Eliza program and two music and animation demos.

The download follows the club’s own list of the tape, 00dirlist.txt, with one TAP and one text listing per program, and two WAV recordings of the tape.

Programs on the Tape

  • 3dtictactoe: 3-D tic-tac-toe on a 3×3×3 grid with three skill levels (also #53785 3D Tic Tac Toe)
  • aliens: shoot down aliens with a joystick-controlled rocket launcher (Bob Redman) (also #53786 Aliens)
  • asteroids: steer through an asteroid field with a limited energy screen and a Hall of Fame (also #53787 Asteroids)
  • biorhythms: plots physical, mental and emotional biorhythm curves (Jim Clark) (also #53788 Biorhythms)
  • bricks: Brick-Yard Bill: don’t get bricked in (also #53789 Brick-Yard Bill)
  • chomper: a Pac-Man-type game in BASIC with two ghosts and power pills (also #53790 Chomper)
  • concentration: a two-player memory game with nine pairs on a 6×6 grid (also #53791 Concentration)
  • cricket: a two-team cricket game with UDG players (also #53792 Cricket)
  • demolition: knock down a wall with a ball, with machine code collision detection and a high-score table (also #53793 Demolition)
  • driver: 3D Driver: stay on a perspective road while the car drifts (also #53794 3D Driver)
  • earth: shoot a drifting alien invader with a laser (also #53795 Earth)
  • eliza: Eliza, the conversation program, adapted for the TS2068 by G. F. Chambers from Tim Hartnell’s Giant Book of Computer Games
  • golf: a nine-hole text golf game (also #53797 Golf)
  • hangcat: a two-player hangman-type word game with an animated title (also #53798 Hangcat)
  • king-kong: King-Kong: climb a building past patrolling gorillas (also #53799 King-Kong)
  • lander: Moon Lander: five moonscapes with fuel, thrust and meteors (also #53800 Moon Lander)
  • las vegas: Slot: a one-armed bandit with holds, a gamble round and double-up (also #64738 Slot)
  • manimation: a walking stick-figure animation using swapped UDG tables (also #53802 Manimation)
  • math: four-operation maths practice for children (John Colonna) (also #53803 Math)
  • maze: 3-D Maze: escape a random first-person maze against a timer (also #53804 3-D Maze)
  • messiah: sound from Handel’s Messiah with a banner and changing border colours (Dave Franson) (also #53805 Messiah)
  • mission: Mission Impossible: collect fourteen fuel rods in a robot-patrolled power station (also #53806 Mission Impossible)
  • moneypail: Money Pail: catch falling dollar bills and bank them (also #53807 Money Pail)
  • poker: five-card draw poker against the computer (also #53808 Poker)
  • saturn: Saturn Lander: land through Saturn’s rings (also #53809 Saturn Lander)
  • saucers: defend the city from landing saucers with a crosshair (also #53810 Saucers and #50625 Saucers)
  • sheep dog: Sheep Dog Trials: herd sheep through four stages (also #53811 Sheep Dog Trials)
  • spacman: a Pac-Man game with the maze in a string array and two ghosts (also #53812 Spacman)
  • submarine: hunt an unseen submarine with depth charges and sonar (also #53813 Submarine)
  • swarm: shoot a swarm of bees before they reach the city (also #53814 Swarm)
  • tennis: two-player tennis with forehand and backhand graphics (Phillip Sproston) (also #53815 Tennis)
  • tictactoe: two-player tic-tac-toe with scores (John Colonna, Paul Holmgren) (also #53816 Tic Tac Toe)
  • worksimulation: run a factory through strikes and floods and try to make a profit (also #53817 Work Simulation)

Content

3-D Maze

Program

Explore a randomly generated first-person 3-D maze using typed commands, with perspective-drawn corridors and a live timer tracking your escape attempt.

3D Driver

Program

Steer a UDG-rendered car down a perspective road while random drift fights your inputs — stay on track as long as you can to maximize your score.

3D Tic Tac Toe

Program

A fully strategic 3D tic-tac-toe game on a 3×3×3 grid, with three AI difficulty levels and all 49 possible winning lines tracked simultaneously.

Aliens

Program

Defend Earth from randomly spawning aliens using a joystick-controlled rocket launcher, with UDG sprites, multi-channel sound, and escalating difficulty levels.

Asteroids

Program

Dodge a swarm of asteroids, deploy a limited energy screen, and battle for the top spot on this pixelated space survival game's Hall of Fame.

Biorhythms

Program

Enter your birthdate and watch three color-coded sine waves reveal your physical, mental, and emotional biorhythm cycles plotted live on screen.

Brick-Yard Bill

Program

Guide Bill through a brick-filled yard using cursor keys — but if every neighboring cell gets blocked, the game's over and your percentage score is tallied.

Chomper

Program

A Pac-Man maze game squeezes dot-eating, two chasing ghosts, power pellets, skill levels, and high-score tracking into pure BASIC.

Concentration

Program

A two-player memory card game hides nine letter pairs across a 6×6 grid, challenging players to find all matches before their opponent does.

Cricket

Program

A two-team cricket simulation with custom sprite graphics, adjustable difficulty, and diagonal ball-trajectory physics lets you bat for runs or risk getting caught or bowled.

Demolition

Program

A spacebar-launched ball demolishes a scrolling wall in this arcade game featuring machine code collision detection, UDG graphics, and a five-level high-score table.

Earth

Program

Dodge and shoot a drifting alien invader using custom sprite characters, a laser beam drawn with PLOT/DRAW, and lives tracked on screen.

Golf

Program

A nine-hole text golf game where you pick swing power and random physics determine whether you sink the putt or suffer a two-stroke penalty.

Hangcat

Program

A two-player word-guessing game with a clever UDG-based animated title that copies ROM font data character by character into custom graphic slots.

King-Kong

Program

Navigate a multi-story building, dodge patrolling gorillas, and defeat the giant ape in this attribute-collision arcade game with a custom character set and frame-counter 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.

Math

Program

A four-operation math drill lets students practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with score tracking and a custom division symbol built from a UDG.

Messiah

Program

A hand-crafted banner routine combines cycling border colors, multi-register AY sound chip music, and block graphic characters to create a striking animated title display.

Mission Impossible

Program

Guide a nuclear operative through a robot-patrolled power station, collecting fourteen fuel rods before radioactive runaway — with custom sprites and laser hazards.

Money Pail

Program

Dollar bills rain from the sky — move your pail with two keys, catch up to five bills, then rush to the bank before more money falls past you.

Moon Lander

Program

Guide your lunar lander across five hand-crafted moonscapes, juggling thrust, rotation, and fuel while dodging meteors and sticking every landing pad.

Poker

Program

A fully playable five-card draw poker game pits you against a bluffing computer dealer, complete with betting, drawing, hand evaluation, and a watch-pawning emergency fund.

Saturn Lander

Program

Guide a spacecraft down through Saturn's rings and land safely on the rocky surface — this BASIC lander game packs machine code routines, UDG graphics, and pixel-perfect collision detection.

Saucers

Program

Pilot a crosshair cursor across a defended landscape and blast alien saucers before they land ten times and build a city on Earth.

Saucers

Program

Guide a crosshair, fire at descending alien saucers, and prevent ten landings before the invaders build their city and doom mankind to become toothpicks.

Sheep Dog Trials

Program

Guide your sheepdog through four increasingly complex stages, herding sheep past ponds, fences, and obstacles — all driven by SCREEN$-based collision detection.

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.

Spacman

Program

A Pac-Man clone stores its entire maze in a string array and uses custom UDG sprites to animate a chomping character hunted by two independently moving ghosts.

Submarine

Program

Hunt an invisible enemy submarine with depth charges, sonar pings, and evasive maneuvers — all while the sub fires back at you.

Swarm

Program

Guide a rocket launcher crosshair across a nighttime skyline and shoot down an advancing swarm of bees before they wipe out the city's population.

Tennis

Program

A two-player tennis game with perspective title art, direct port keyboard reading, and UDG paddle graphics that change shape based on forehand or backhand stance.

Tic Tac Toe

Program

A two-player Tic-Tac-Toe game with a pixel-drawn board, graphical X and O markers, running score tracking, and a final session winner summary.

Work Simulation

Program

Run a factory, manage workers, survive union strikes and flash floods, and try to turn a profit in this randomized business management simulation.

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Downloadable SINCUS TS 2068 Collection