| Bank Switching for the TS1000, Part 6 |
Again this month we’ll start by reviewing comments and suggestions made by some of you who are building a stacked RAM bank like the one described in this series. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Banner 1000 |
The purpose of this program is to print out banners on your Timex printer using your ZX81 or T/S 1000. After typing in and running, you will be instructed to “ENTER YOUR MESSAGE TO PRINT”. Now enter your message and press return. Next you will be asked to choose a “bit character”. This is the |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Banner for the TS 2068 |
This is a short program to print long banners featuring large characters on the 2040 printer. Unlike some other banner programs, you do not have to type DATA statements that contain each character’s dot makeup. This program looks directly into the ROM for the dot patterns. The 2068 stores each scan line of dots as |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Book Review: Munchers |
While the subtitle, “The Ultimate T/S Games Book”, is somewhat pretentious, MUNCHERS is a well organized, worthwhile effort, There are three major sections. The first is games for the unadorned T/S 1000, the second is for the 16K machines, and the third is for the T/S 2068. A grand total of 32 programs are presented, |
Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Cassette Loading Hints for Timex Computers |
The most annoying problem I have had with my T/S 1000 is not being able to load programs, If you have tried all the suggestions in the manual and still have problems, try the following techniques. Using them I get a good load on the first try nine times out of ten. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Enter |
We thought we would go out on a limb in this issue and try something new. The result is the institution of the soon-to-be coveted “New Horizon Awards”. These are not material trophies that will be sent out to any of the recipients, but merely a published acknowledgement of contributions made by individuals, organizations, and |
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| First Annual T-S Horizons Awards |
T-S Horizons AWARD OF MERIT Here we recognize the writers who have supported TSH in the last year. Bill Ferrebee, Tex Faucette, Doug Gangi, Gordon Young, Paul Hunter, Ken Lewis, Bill Johnson, Mather White, John Marion, Art Gindin, and all the rest. These people have put in a lot of hours and often their main |
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| From The Cluttered Desk… |
Reader input plus other notes of interest. First of all I would like to thank all of you who have written to congratulate us on our first birthday. I also want to thank those who have written with suggestions and complaints. As we are still an infant publication it helps quite a lot to know |
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| Hardware Review: DK' Tronics Flexible Ribbon Connector |
OK’ Tronics flexible ribbon connector has a 46 pin female connector on one end, for attaching to the back of your ZX/TS computer, about 8″ of 40 strand flexible flat ribbon cable and a male solder plated ZX/TS connector on the other end. One of the primary uses of this type cable is to fit |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Hardware Review: The Suntronics KD-81 Keyboard |
The Suntronics KD-81 is a full sized keyboard made specially for the Timex 1000/Sinclair ZX-81,. It is an excellent keyboard with the Timex legends silk screened in two colors. The keyboard comes with a shielded case into the Timex board fits. There are two oversized SHIFT keys, and oversized ENTER key, and yes, a full-sized |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| In Touch With The World No. 4 |
Hello again, and as you prepare for this festive time of year, I am back to provide you with some information that will help you enjoy your Telecomputing through the Holiday Season. First, let me be among the first to wish you only the happiest of Holidays, May this time of year bring the best |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Merry Christmas from T-S Horizons |
Seasons greeting program. |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| More One-Liners for the 2068 |
The ”2068 Spirograph” routine drew a good bit of response including a letter from Robert Hartung, former writer for SYNC magazine. He informs us that the routine is a variation of one which is at the top of page 472 of Morse, Adamson, Anrep, and Hancock’s Essential Guide To T/S Home Computers. Another variation is |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| More Power to Ya |
How many of you have experienced this situation? You are sitting at your keyboard, typing in the “ultimate” program. You’ve been at it for three hours, and you have two lines left. Suddenly, your wife starts the clothes dryer in the basement… you see a glitch on the screen… POOF!!! Three hours of work down |
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| MTERM II Tutorial |
This will be a short series in the proper use of the MIERM II Telecommunications software package for the Westridge 2050 modem/TS 2068 computer combination. In this series, I hope to unravel the mystery that seems to have arisen since the release of MIERM II. I have been assured by Micro-Systems Software, developer of MIERM |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Odd, Ends, Etc. |
While most of the “survivors” of the recent Great Magazine Showdown, as well the majority of their advertisers, are ignoring our favorite computers, an occasional reference does appear now and then. One recently mentioned a 2800 member “Southwestern Sinclair Users Group”, whose President, John Brown, Jr. is supposed to be running a BBS with a |
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| Program Header Listing |
If you are like me, you like to have backup copies of your T/S programs to use on a regular basis. I put the master copies of my tapes away so that they can’t get damaged. Some programs are easy to backup. If they are completely in BASIC, you simply break the program, and look |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Programming Tips |
Here is an article of immediate practical use if you have ever tried to type in long REM lines for machine code or wanted password protection for your programs. Also included are points on how to reduce SAVE/LOAD time, hidden program lines, PRINTing and COPYing lines 22 and 23, how to find the PRINT coordinates, |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Reviews for the Non-Programmer #6 |
This author has remained a non-programmer for several reasons: It seems like a lot of work. Most problems have been solved and it seemed easier to use someone else’s programs. The programs as written seemed uncomprehensible. However, the temptation has always been there to learn the art and I have actually made some minor modifications |
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| Software Review: The Hobbit |
The Hobbit is a graphics adventure game for the 48K Spectrum. It will run on the Spectrum ROM or a Spectrum Emulator. The program takes about 6 minutes to load (and has a very neat screen string, as pictured with the dragon and mountain). The game is very tough. The best I have done is |
Sinclair ZX Spectrum |
| Software Review: Timegate |
TIMEGATE from Quicksilva is a very fast action space adventure arcade-type game for the TS2068, It was originally written for the SPECTRUM and has been faithfully re-done for the TS2068. According to the info flyer from Quicksilva “a hero is needed to save the universe by fighting the evil Swarm…” The directions for this game |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Software Review: Trivia Machine |
One of my favorite activities, when I am not working at the keyboard, or at my job, is being a “Trivialist”. I love playing Trivial Pursuit, and of the other trivia games available. That’s why when I received TRIVIA MACHINE, by MANX Software, I was anxious to test myself. The program is designed to be |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Software Review: UPLOAD 2000 |
If you’re like me, the TS 2068 was not the first computer you owned. You probably had a ZX81 or TS1000, and probably have plenty of programs to run on it. Now that you’ve moved on to the more sophisticated TS2068, you probably think to build a library for it, you’ll have to start from |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| T-S News |
The QL is coming! We received a very attractive full color booklet from Sinclair Research that tells everything you’ve always wanted to know about the QL-except when it will be available. Much of the information has been published in T-S Horizons before but it does go into more detail on the word processing, database, spreadsheet, |
Sinclair QL |
| T/S Help and Information |
Welcome to the first installment of the T/S Help and Information. This column is designed to answer questions, give advice, and give general information about the Timex Sinclair family of computers. Our first letter is from John Novak of Munster, Indiana. I have a ZX81 and I have been doing some changing of the basic |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Telecommunications: Timex/Sinclair 1000 vs Radio Shack Model 100 |
Editor’s Note: The following article was written by Larry Desch for the newsletter of his local KAYPRO user group in Iowa City, and is reprinted here with the gracious permission of the author. What computer has 16K, expandable to 64K, weighs in at less than 5 pounds and has a small “footprint”? Am I talking |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| User Groups |
Is your group listed? Due to a rather good response to a recently published request for user group information, here is a partial list of T/S Groups. If you don’t see one in your area then look again next month when I will give you some more. This partial listing is due to a lack |
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