Articles (101)
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| AIR DEFENSE Stop bombs before they reach the city! 5 levels of play, each increasing in difficulty. In the first 4 levels,... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | October 1986 |
| Airship I This program is another animation program like ROCKETS (FALL 88). Mr. Zarembka has once again out done himself with this... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Winter 1989 |
| Aliens Can you survive in space surrounded by bezerk aliens. They don’t know what they’re doing. Careful not to crash into... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | September 1986 |
| AMAZING Can you find your way through a 9X9X9 maze? The computer will generate a maze then choose at random the... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | October 1986 |
| Better Programming This month we will talk about the envelope generator. To enable the generator you must put the value 16 to... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | September 1986 |
| Better Programming! As promised in Chapter 2 of SOUND EFFECTS, I will talk about the Noise channels for this month. The Noise... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | October 1986 |
| BETTER PROGRAMMING! Let’s talk about sound effects in programs. It is very important in a game to have good sound effects as... | Eric Boisvert Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | August 1986 |
| Better Programming! Last month we thought we were finished with the SOUND EFFECTS but we found a method of creating a simulated... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Spring 1987 |
| Better Programming! First this month we are going to talk about how to get the SOUND when using the SPECTRUM rom on... | Kristian Boisvert Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1987 |
| Better Programming! This month I will talk about the ‘REAL ECHO’. This one is a little more complicated than the ‘FALSE ECHO’... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | December 1986/January 1987 |
| Better Programming! This month I will show you how to make an echo while playing a music. I call this echo ‘THE... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | November 1986 |
| Bits & Bytes Talk This new features lets you the reader express yourself about the Timex world. If you have something you’d like to... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Spring 1987 |
| Bits & Bytes Talk This new features lets you the reader express yourself about the Timex world. If you have something you’d like to... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1987 |
| Bubloid Try to pick up as many crystals as you can while avoiding energy sucking plants and the Electric Bubloid. The... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | November 1986 |
| Byte Power Review of Byte Power magazine (on tape). | T-S Horizons | December 1986 | |
| Checkbook Accounts When running this program, you will be asked to enter the original balance then the number of checks to be... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1987 |
| Checkbook Balancer Enter your statement balance, your checkbook balance, the checks that are not cleared yet and the deposits that haven’t been... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | November 1986 |
| CHECKERS Well, you probably know this game, so enjoy it! The computer is not very ‘bright’ but should keep you entertained... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | October 1986 |
| Classic Moments of Music This program will play one of 6 tunes. You can play one music at a time or have the computer... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | December 1986/January 1987 |
| Clock Radio This program is simply a clock! It will display a clock radio but cannot play music or have an alarm... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | May 1988 |
| Color-Pad Color-Pad is somewhat the complement of SMALL SCREEN PAINTER. It will allow you to paint the screen. It features INK,... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | September 1986 |
| Construx Can you help a family get to their home? See, they’re trapped on the side of a mountain and some... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | September 1986 |
| COPY ENTIRE DISK This LKDOS utility will allow you to make up to 4 backup copies of a disk at a time. The... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1988 |
| DATA MAKER This program will allow you to transform codes into DATA statements in a BASIC program. This is particularly useful for... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1988 |
| Decision Maker This program can be used for a wide variety of decisions… It will help you choose the best stereo, help... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Spring 1987 |
| Derby Up to 5 players can play. You may bet on 1 of the 5 horses up to $200. Four kinds... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | November 1986 |
| Disk Analyzer This Larken utility will allow to see some information about your disks. It will give you the number of tracks... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Winter 1989 |
| Editor’s Note Well another issue again… Some neat stuff as always… We have AIRSHIP I: an animation program from Robert Zarembka, EXTENDED... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Winter 1989 |
| Editor’s Note Lots of stuff again this month!! Our best program ever CONFLICT is in the line up this month… then there... | Eric Boisvert Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1988 |
| Editor’s Note Hi there in computerland! Again, another issue packed with great programs! Future Hero, a superb platform game! Renumber II, a... | Eric Boisvert Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | May 1988 |
| Editor’s Note At last BYTE POWER is now SPECTRUM compatible!!! Yes it is now ready. You will find it on side B... | Eric Boisvert Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Spring 1987 |
| Editor’s Note Well, this is the 6th issue of BYTE POWER! Cause for celebration? Nah! We’ll wait for the 12th issue! As... | Kristian Boisvert Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1987 |
| Editor’s Note Some time ago we asked for program ideas for the magazine, we received a lot of neat ideas. We can’t... | Kristian Boisvert Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | December 1986/January 1987 |
| Editor’s Note HO! HO! HO! Looks like it’s Christmas time! We would like to take this moment to wish all of you... | Kristian Boisvert Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | November 1986 |
| Editor’s Notes Happy Halloween! Yes, it’s almost time for the ghouls, ghosts and other spirits to roam our streets and come to... | Eric Boisvert Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1988 |
| Editors’ Note We think that the best thing to say right now is “WELCOME” to the first issue of BYTE POWER! BYTE... | Eric Boisvert Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | August 1986 |
| Editors’ Note Hi there! Welcome back to BYTE POWER Magazine! Subscriptions to the magazine are coming in regularly, which is very encouraging... | Eric Boisvert Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | October 1986 |
| Editors’ Note Well, it’s time for our second issue of BYTE POWER! We must say that we were quite surprised by the... | Eric Boisvert Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | September 1986 |
| Extended Plot Extended Plot is a new operating system for the PLOT function… All you need to add in your BASIC programs... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Winter 1989 |
| Extended Plot Demo This program is a demo for EX PLOT. I encourage you to BREAK the program and look around in the... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Winter 1989 |
| FANCY CLEAR SCREEN This utility contains 6 clear screen routines that will give your programs that special something they’re missing… To select a... | Kristian Boisvert Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1987 |
| Fixing Up “JUST ANOTHER SPREADSHEET!” A few weeks ago Rusty Townsend of Richmond, B.C., let us know about a BUG in the spreadsheet we published... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1987 |
| Format Disk This program is a replacement for the original Larken Format program. All you need to do is load the ORIGINAL... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Winter 1989 |
| FORTRESS You are attacked by Indians and must defend the Fortress. There are 400 Indians on each of the 4 sides... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | October 1986 |
| Ghost Hunters No! This game is not at all a ‘PAC-MAN’ style of game! This game is divided into 4 parts: First,... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | December 1986/January 1987 |
| Grafix This program will create six screens. It has no real use but it is entertaining. It is a good example... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | December 1986/January 1987 |
| GRAFIX II This program will simply create screens… Just sit back and enjoy! Loading name GRAFIX IIProgram type Graphic entertainmentWritten by Kristian... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1987 |
| GRAND PRIX A race against time! Careful not to let the engine overheat! Watch out for those hairpin turns they wearout your... | Eric Boisvert Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | August 1986 |
| HELLO! This utility is used as a boot program for the LARKEN LKDOS cartridge (ALL CARTRIDGES!) To transfer the program to... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1988 |
| INKEY$ This short routine will let you press as many keys as you wish! Full instructions in program. | Kristian Boisvert Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Spring 1987 |
| INTEREST CALCULATION This program will help you figure out the amount of the interest on your loans… The Menu 1- Calculate interest... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1987 |
| Inventory This program will keep track of what is valuable in your house. Up to 60 items, their value, how many... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1987 |
| Island After a violent storm you find yourself on an Island. Can you survive through the night? Be careful your decisions... | Kristian Boisvert Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | December 1986/January 1987 |
| Just Another Spreadsheet This little goodie will let you create formulas with all mathematical functions found on the TS2068 + 2 special functions,... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1987 |
| LARKEN Disk Interface A few months ago, Larry Kenny of LARKEN ELECTRONICS called us to let us know about his new disk interface.... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1988 |
| Lost in 3D Find your friend in a giant maze! Features a split screen displaying the two players as the work their way... | Kristian Boisvert Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1987 |
| LOTTO This program will choose random number selections. You can define how many numbers in a selections and between what numbers.... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1988 |
| Map Out Bad Blocks This LARKEN LKDOS utility will read a disk and take all the bad blocks out of the catalog, then save... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | May 1988 |
| Memory Kids will love this one! Match all 8 pictures, the lower your score the better. To see a picture press... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | November 1986 |
| Mister Butterfly Mister Butterfly is looking for his 5 children, can you help him find them? They were playing with their balloons... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Spring 1987 |
| MUSIC DEMO This program will play 5 musics. Just press A-E to select the music. Break the program and look around in... | Eric Boisvert Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1988 |
| Navy This game is similar to the ever popular “BATTLESHIP”. First, you will be asked to place your ships. The coordinates... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | December 1986/January 1987 |
| ON ERROR This utility is mostly used for error trapping on the Spectrum but can be used on a TS2068 also. It... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | May 1988 |
| PACHIZEE The object of the game is to move all 4 of your pieces to the safety zone. The game is... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1988 |
| Phone Bok In this program, you can store up to 255 names, addresses and phone numbers. You can search through a file... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | September 1986 |
| QUIZOMANIA This program was an idea of one of our subscribers, Ronald M. Cavin II of Columbus, Ohio. This program will... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1987 |
| Renumber II This utility will allow you to renumber any BASIC programs. It will renumber GOTO, GOSUB, RUN, LIST, DELETE, LLIST, RESTORE,... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | May 1988 |
| Review: ARTWORX version 1.1 Artworx is a program that allows you to draw pictures using Brushes, Spray, Fill, Zoom, Circle, Arc, Oval, Line, Ray,... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | October 1986 |
| Review: Critical Mass Program Type: Arcade Game From: DURELL Critical Mass is a very fast action game with SUPERB graphics. The goal of... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | September 1986 |
| Review: Larken MAXCOM MAXCOM is 300/1200 baud Terminal/Remote BBS software… It is 2 programs in one meant to be used with the LKDOS... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Winter 1989 |
| Review: Speech Development System For TS2068 (HS68) Total DISAPPOINTMENT! This Hardware and Software package lets you digitize your own library of words. But frankly for 39.95$, it... | Kristian Boisvert Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | November 1986 |
| Review: Thanatos This program you take control of a dragon called ‘THANATOS The Destroyer’. You must find ‘Eros’, a beautiful young enchantress... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Spring 1987 |
| Review: THE SACRED ARMOUR OF ANTIRIAD In this excellent game you are TAL, mankind’s last hope against the invaders. (Where did I here that before?!?) First,... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1987 |
| REVIEW: The Wafadrive The Wafadrive is a dual-drive storage device. It’s an all in one system! It has two 128K drives, a RS232... | Eric Boisvert Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | August 1986 |
| Review: The Worx! First, I was a little disappointed by this program, it was a little confusing the way it worked. Still can’t... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1987 |
| Review: Tomahawk This newly adapted game for the TS2068 from D. K. Marshall (DIGITAL INTEGRATION) is a heck of a lot better... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | December 1986/January 1987 |
| Screen Manipulator This program contains 24 screen utilities! You can choose any one of them and save it for later use. You... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Winter 1989 |
| SCUBA DIVER The idea of the game is to collect as many pieces of the treasure as you can in a sunken... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1987 |
| SHOOTER! Year 2986, equipped with the most powerful computer ever known on Earth, a TS2068, a spaceship is launched into deep... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | August 1986 |
| Shrinker This utility will convert all numbers to VAL “number”. This saves a lot of memory and may be a blessing... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | May 1988 |
| SKY DIVER How long will you wait to open your parachute?… Can you land on a moving target? Let’s find out the... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1987 |
| SOLITAIRE The object of the game is to clear the board leaving only one piece in the center. You move pieces... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1988 |
| Some of the Best Programming Around Eric and Kris Boisvert of BYTE POWER have put together ten issues of their electronic magazine on cassette, which adds... | Time Designs Magazine | March/April 1988 | |
| Spreadsheet II You will find this program to be a great improvement over the ‘JUST ANOTHER SPREADSHEET!’. It has more file space,... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1988 |
| Standard Screen Copier This program will allow you to print screens on any dot matrix printer, even the Gorilla Banana or other less-than-8-pin... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Winter 1989 |
| Super Budget This program lets you enter your expenditures for every months and also the estimated spendings (budget). It will tell you... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | November 1986 |
| Super Marbles In this program you are a Marble which wanders around caves and platforms, up vaccum tubes and elevators, on a... | Kristian Boisvert Eric Boisvert Michael Kemper | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1987 |
| Tape Corrector | ZX-Appeal | May 1989 | |
| TAPE CORRECTOR You know how those tape to tape backup routines usually only work on “good” original copies, but what about a... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1988 |
| Text Printer This program will allow you to print old BYTE POWER mags (AUG 86 to NOV 86) on either the TS2040... | Kristian Boisvert Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1987 |
| The Day You Were Born You enter your date of birth and the computer will tell you on what day of the week you were... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | September 1986 |
| The Desk This program will store up to 100 appointments and 39 phone numbers/addresses. It also features a NOTE-PAD. When the program... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | December 1986/January 1987 |
| THE MINOTAUR You are lost in a maze and you must find the exit. Sounds easy, but what if I told you... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | August 1986 |
| The Qualifier This program will let you analyse the range of homes you can afford depending on the data given to the... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Spring 1987 |
| The Sounds Of Christmas This program will play 5 Christmas musics. It is a bit late but this IS the Winter 89 issue! So,... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Winter 1989 |
| The Tune Player This program will play 5 different musics. Just sit back and enjoy! Note: The Spectrum version only works on an... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Winter 1989 |
| Towers of Hanoi Move a certain amount of disks from one tower to another, making sure you never put a large disk on... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | November 1986 |
| Tune Box This program will play 5 popular tunes. I will not reveal the titles of the tunes, you will have to... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | September 1986 |
| TUNE BOX volume 2 Tune Box vol.2 will play 5 different musics, such as FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN (CAN’T HELP IT), THEME FROM RUNAWAY... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | October 1986 |
| Tycoon Try to pump as much oil out of the ground as possible to make the most money… Full instructions in... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Spring 1987 |
| Z-row Gravity In this game you must destroy Aliens, Satellites, Galaxies and Robots. They keep spinning around and if you are not... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Spring 1987 |
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| Timex Sinclair Online User Group Meeting January 18, 2026 Chris Boisvert, one of the original creators of Byte Power 1st Class Magazine, joined us. He explained how he and... | January 18, 2026 |