Timex Sinclair Public Domain Library Tape 1005

Developer(s): Tim Ward
Date: 198x
Type: Cassette
Platform(s): TS 1000

Tape 1005 of the Timex Sinclair Public Domain Library. Assembled by Tim Ward from many sources. Contains programs 10211–10251: 24 on side A and 17 on side B. Side A has a Dungeons & Dragons combat tracker, strategy games including two versions of Star Trek, and a run of small arcade games. Side B has machine code tools, a text editor, music, maths and weather programs, and more games.

Programs on the Tape

Side A

  • 10211 Combined Track Tab (D&D): Dungeons & Dragons combat tracker (also #57410)
  • 10212 Trap: move through a walled playfield without touching the walls (also #57411)
  • 10213 Towers: Tower of Hanoi with up to seven discs (also #57412)
  • 10214 Killer Robots: lure robots into electrified walls (also #57413)
  • 10215 Space Station: run a space station: oxygen, food and money (also #57414)
  • 10216 Star Trek: Star Trek strategy game on a 10 × 10 grid (also #57415)
  • 10217 Star Trek 3.5: Star Trek, version 3.5 (also #57416)
  • 10218 Surge: steer up through a scrolling field of obstacles (also #57417)
  • 10219 Survive: maze avoidance game (from SYNC, volume 3, issue 5) (also #57418)
  • 10220 VU-File Patch: add-on lines to be merged into VU-FILE (also #57419)
  • 10221 Math Test: 20-question multiplication test (also #57420)
  • 10222 Swarm: dodge falling asterisks (also #57421)
  • 10223 Racer: steer a car along a winding road (also #57422 Racer 2)
  • 10224 Galaxian: Galaxian-style shooting game (also #57423)
  • 10225 Jack Rabbit: jumping game on a 5 × 5 grid (also #57424)
  • 10226 Inducto: guess a number from 1 to 20 (also #57425)
  • 10227 Moon Lander: text Moon landing game (also #57426)
  • 10228 Zap: shoot down incoming missiles (also #57427)
  • 10229 Slalom: ski through six slalom gates (also #57428)
  • 10230 Snake Winder: catch falling blocks (also #57429)
  • 10231 Bowling Alley: ten-pin bowling (also #57430)
  • 10232 Invasion: shoot falling invaders (also #57431)
  • 10233 Alien Gunner: shoot aliens at random positions (also #57432)
  • 10234 Mini-Invaders: small Space Invaders game (also #57433)

Side B

  • 10235 Machine Code Editor: machine code editor held in a REM line (also #57434)
  • 10236 Ball: bouncing ball in machine code (also #57435)
  • 10237 Bounce: bouncing ball animation in machine code (also #57436)
  • 10238 Keyboard List: hex loader and memory editor (HEXLD3) (also #57437 Hex Editor)
  • 10239 Music Maker: compose and play tunes measure by measure (also #57438)
  • 10240 Basketball: basketball coaching simulation (Strategy Basketball) (also #57439)
  • 10241 Math: maths toolkit: GCD, LCM, prime factors, quadratics and more (also #57440)
  • 10242 3D Cube Animation: wireframe cube animated with machine code (also #57441)
  • 10243 Weather Analysis: logs and analyses weather observations (also #57442)
  • 10244 Zed Text: text editor with command macros (also #57443)
  • 10245 Hex Code Memory Loader: enters hex machine code above RAMTOP (also #57444)
  • 10246 Decimal Code Poker: POKEs machine code bytes into memory (also #57445)
  • 10247 Squash – Basic: squash game in BASIC (also #57446)
  • 10248 Squash – MC: squash game, machine code version (also #57447)
  • 10249 Design: random screen designs that can be recorded and rebuilt (also #57448)
  • 10250 Antenna Comp: dipole and vertical antenna lengths for any frequency (also #57449)
  • 10251 Escape: first-person 3-D maze escape (also #57450 3-D Escape)

The download has a TZX file, a plain-text listing (.b81) and screenshots for each program, in tape order by side, with the tape’s contents list (TS PDL 1005.txt) and photos of the cassette and its label. Program names follow that list; where it says “Unknown”, the name of the program’s own page is used.

Content

3-D Escape

Program

Navigate a randomly generated first-person 3-D maze in pure BASIC, racing against a dwindling oxygen supply before the walls close in forever.

3D Cube Animation

Program

A 3D wireframe cube is drawn vertex-by-vertex in BASIC, then a hex-encoded Z80 machine code routine takes over for the finale — all in under 100 lines.

Alien Gunner

Program

A 15-shot arcade gallery game uses a computed GOSUB to award row-dependent scores — the higher the alien, the bigger the points prize.

Antenna Comp

Program

Enter any frequency in MHz and this antenna calculator instantly returns half-wave dipole and quarter-wave vertical dimensions in both feet and metres.

Ball

Program

A pure machine code ball-bouncing demo hidden inside a REM statement — with a clever trick to break looping patterns using the frame counter.

Basketball

Program

A two-half basketball coaching sim where your shot selection and defensive strategy are tested against weighted random outcomes — including overtime if the score is tied.

Bounce

Program

A self-contained bouncing ball demo driven entirely by hand-crafted Z80 machine code hidden inside REM statements — no BASIC graphics commands involved at all.

Bowling Alley

Program

A ten-frame bowling simulator that renders a triangular pin layout using CHR$ codes and tracks your highest score across multiple games.

Combined Track Tab (D&D)

Program

A full RPG combat tracker handles hit points, damage, healing, regeneration, and attack tables for multiple creatures at once — all in BASIC.

Decimal Code Poker

Program

A hex machine code entry tool that zero-fills a memory region, then POKEs your opcodes byte-by-byte using a clever character-code decoding trick.

Design

Program

A random mosaic generator that lets you record and reconstruct screen-filling graphic patterns by tracking just six character codes.

Galaxian

Program

A one-screen BASIC shoot-'em-up where you dodge descending aliens and fire back — all rendered with block graphics and a surprisingly compact loop structure.

Hex Code Memory Loader

Program

A full interactive hex editor lets you enter, navigate, and execute Z80 machine code directly in reserved RAM, complete with relative-jump calculation and a tape-loader downloader.

Hex Editor

Program

A hex-entry machine code editor lurks inside REM statements, letting you write, insert, and delete bytes anywhere in memory with two-character hex input.

Inducto

Program

A number-guessing game with a twist: instead of "higher/lower," you get a mathematical clue — the square root of how far off your guess was.

Invasion

Program

Guide your block-graphic gun base to intercept falling aliens before five slip through — each alien type scores differently, and one key teleports you across the screen.

Jack Rabbit

Program

A tiny jumping puzzle uses a 25-cell grid, a random step selector, and a move counter to track how long your marker survives before leaping off the edge.

Killer Robots

Program

Navigate a lethal maze while killer robots close in — one wrong step into an electric wall ends the game for you or, ideally, for them.

Machine Code Editor

Program

A self-contained machine code development tool hides hundreds of Z80 opcodes inside a single REM statement, launched with just three lines of BASIC.

Math

Program

A complete eight-topic maths toolkit packed into one program, featuring Euclidean GCD, bisection zero-finding, Horner polynomial evaluation, and a coordinate-scaled function plotter.

Math Test

Program

A 20-question multiplication quiz that picks random number pairs, checks your answers, tallies your score, and loops endlessly — can you beat your high score?

Mini-Invaders

Program

A pocket-sized Space Invaders clone fires alien-row scrolling, player movement, and a shooting mechanic into under 30 lines of BASIC — with a few surprises inside.

Moon Lander

Program

Guide your spacecraft to a soft lunar touchdown by managing thrust and fuel in this physics-based lander game with a moving altitude display.

Music Maker

Program

Enter a melody note by note, then replay it with machine-code sound output — this composer program stores pitch and duration arrays and drives audio via direct memory POKEs.

Racer 2

Program

Guide your car along a randomly weaving road using two keys — one wrong move and a clever display-file PEEK ends the race instantly.

Slalom

Program

Guide a moving dot through six randomly placed gates using just two keys — one missed gap ends the run instantly in this compact slalom game.

Snake Winder

Program

A scrolling catch game with a clever three-step delay chain — can you intercept the falling block before racking up ten misses?

Space Station

Program

Manage oxygen, food, and credits aboard a threatened space station where alien raiders and dwindling supplies spell doom in this turn-based resource sim.

Squash - Basic

Program

A bouncing-ball Squash game where you control a bat with two keys, racing the computer to score 10 points — built entirely in BASIC with block-graphic court walls.

Squash - MC

Program

A bouncing-ball Squash game where you control a bat with two keys, racing the computer to score 10 points — built entirely in machine code with block-graphic court walls.

Star Trek

Program

Command a starship across a 10×10 grid, hunting alien fleets with limited energy — but one wrong move sends the Enterprise to its doom.

Star Trek 3.5

Program

Command the Enterprise in this text-based galaxy battle where Klingons can warp away when outgunned and torpedo spreads follow realistic angular dispersion — can you save the Federation in time?

Surge

Program

A tiny machine-code collision detector hidden in a REM statement powers this scrolling one-button arcade game — how high can you surge?

Survive

Program

Navigate a lone "U" across a minefield grid, collecting points while a deadly timer counts down and a flashing hazard hunts your position — can you survive?

Swarm

Program

Dodge a swarm of falling asterisks with Z and M keys as this minimalist scrolling shooter demo races through its BASIC game loop.

Towers

Program

Can you solve the Tower of Hanoi in the minimum number of moves? This BASIC puzzle tracks every move and flashes a warning when you try something illegal.

Trap

Program

Guide your cursor through a bordered trap using four directional keys — but one wrong move into the wall ends the game and reveals your score.

VU-File Patch

Program

A drop-in extension for the VU-FILE database adds printer formatting, page headers, margins, and field layouts through direct memory patching and machine code hooks.

Weather Analysis

Program

A rule-based weather station logger and forecaster that packs barometric pressure, wind, temperature, and precipitation into fixed-width string array records — then predicts tomorrow's weather.

Zap

Program

Guide your ground cannon through 20 incoming missiles using live INKEY$ controls — can you intercept them all before they land?

Zed Text

Program

A complete text editor hidden inside a single-string variable — with cursor movement, justification, paging, and tape save, all driven by a letter-based macro interpreter.

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Note: Type-in program listings on this website use ZMAKEBAS notation for graphics characters.

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