Timex Sinclair Public Domain Library Tape 2003

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

The third in a numbered series of public domain library tapes compiled by Tony Willing, containing programs 20083 to 20120: songs arranged for the sound chip with chords and lyrics, a chord library, a mortgage calculator, a mail-merge program, a clock and a few games.

The download has 14 programs, each as a TAP with a text listing (the files with no extension). Bio-graph.tap is in fact a TZX file. The site also links twelve programs from CATS Library Tape 8 to this tape, which are not in the download: Caloriburn (#55184), Attr Table (#54562), MULTIFILE+ (#54576), Copycat (#54568), Multi Tape (#54577), Binary (#54564), FILE 1 (#54570), Cassette Label (#54566), 2068 Disassembler and Monitor (#54569), Streams and Channels (#54573), Sound Effects (#54581), Varslist (#55013).

Programs on the Tape

  • 3-D: draw curves in 3-D with six direction keys, then replay or randomise them (also #55957 3-D)
  • Battle: a board game of diagonal captures against the computer (also #55958 Battle)
  • Beethoven: “Ode to Joy” with chords and lyrics (also #55960 Beethoven)
  • Bio-graph: biorhythm curves for a chosen month (Fred Blechman) (also #55963 Bio-Graph)
  • Chordize: a chord library that adds three-voice triads to BEEP melodies (also #55965 Chordizer)
  • EndlessLove: “Endless Love” with chords and lyrics on the sound chip (also #55967 Endless Love)
  • Espanola: a medley of four Latin songs with chord accompaniment (also #55969 Espanola)
  • Evergreen: “Evergreen” with scrolling lyrics and chords (also #55971 Evergreen)
  • Merge1: Merge 1: builds letters from a template and a data file (also #55947 Merge 1)
  • Mortgage: monthly payments, maximum home price and affordability (also #55973 Mortgage)
  • Nightfall: bomb and dodge through a rainstorm (Tim Hartnell) (also #55975 Nightfall)
  • StarBlast: a joystick space shooter (also #55977 Star Blast)
  • TheRose: “The Rose” with lyrics and three-voice chords (also #55979 The Rose)
  • W5GAAClock: a UTC digital clock timed by BASIC loops and BEEPs (Frank H. Bouldin, W5GAA) (also #55981 W5GAA Clock)

Content

2068 Disassembler and Monitor

Program

A full Z80 disassembler and machine code monitor that decodes every opcode prefix, supports symbol tables loaded from tape, and outputs to screen or printer.

3-D

Program

Draw freehand curves in 3D space with six-direction keyboard control, then replay or randomize your sketches with a perspective projection engine built entirely in BASIC.

Attr Table

Program

A handy on-screen reference table renders all 64 paper and ink color combinations, showing their attribute byte values styled in the actual colors they represent.

Battle

Program

A board game where you and the computer trade diagonal captures on a block-graphic grid — enter coordinates to move, and race to six captures first.

Beethoven

Program

A full choral arrangement of "Ode to Joy" plays syllable by syllable, with melody, named chord accompaniment, and pitch-proportional lyric positioning all driven from a single DATA loop.

Binary

Program

Watch each bit light up in color as this educational tool converts any decimal number from 0 to 255 into its 8-bit binary representation, with an animated auto-demo mode.

Bio-Graph

Program

Enter your birthday and a target month to watch three sinusoidal biorhythm curves — Physical, Sensitivity, and Intellectual — plotted live across the screen.

Caloriburn

Program

Enter an activity number and exercise duration to instantly calculate calories burned and the equivalent weight loss in both kilograms and pounds.

Cassette Label

Program

Enter two tape titles and this program prints a ready-to-fold cassette case label complete with cut lines, fold guides, and fitting instructions.

Chordizer

Program

A chord library that wraps plain BEEP melodies in full three-voice triads using raw sound-chip register values — transcribe sheet music with harmony in minutes.

Copycat

Program

A tape copier and Z80 assembler in one package — copy tapes with or without headers, and assemble Z80 machine code with full instruction set support, symbol table, and forward reference resolution.

Endless Love

Program

A three-channel chip music rendition of "Endless Love" plays syllable by syllable, each word paired with chord voicings and precise beat durations stored in DATA statements.

Espanola

Program

A four-song Latin music medley — Granada, Perfidia, Brazil, and Solamente Una Vez — plays melody and live chord accompaniment simultaneously from a menu-driven BASIC program.

Evergreen

Program

A BASIC rendition of "Evergreen" that synchronizes scrolling lyrics with melody and live three-voice chord accompaniment using AY sound chip register programming.

FILE 1

Program

A complete menu-driven database system lets you design custom record layouts, sort, search, edit, and archive data to tape using embedded machine code routines.

Merge 1

Program

A tape-based mail-merge utility uses an embedded machine code block-copy routine to assemble personalized letters from a template and data file.

Mortgage

Program

A three-mode mortgage calculator that computes monthly payments, maximum home prices, and affordability checks from income — all built around shared BASIC subroutines.

Multi Tape

Program

A tape cataloging utility that POKEs machine code to read raw cassette headers and stores up to 400 program entries across searchable arrays.

MULTIFILE+

Program

A full-featured string database manager with Quicksort, multi-field search, record deletion, and tape save — all packed into a single BASIC program.

Nightfall

Program

Guide your craft through a torrential rainfall, dropping bombs and dodging collisions in this arcade game that uses custom graphics and display-file collision detection.

Sound Effects

Program

A six-option sound demo lets you trigger bomb, gunshot, and explosion effects, play "America the Beautiful," or perform on a fully interactive on-screen piano keyboard.

Star Blast

Program

Blast scrolling star fields with a custom-drawn cannon in this joystick-controlled space shooter that gets faster and more crowded with every wave.

Streams and Channels

Program

Peek inside the streams and channels tables live in RAM — this diagnostic tool decodes every address, routine pointer, and device specifier byte on screen.

The Rose

Program

A fully data-driven BASIC program plays "The Rose" note by note, synchronizing split syllable lyrics with three-voice harmony chords from the AY sound chip.

Varslist

Program

A 173-byte machine code utility reveals every BASIC variable currently in memory — just call it with RANDOMIZE USR to inspect your program's state.

W5GAA Clock

Program

A precision UTC digital clock that encodes the current time directly in BASIC loop counters, using block-graphic digits and carefully tuned BEEP durations to keep accurate time.

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Downloadable TS 2068 Collection