| Ask Chuck |
Chuck gives advice on MS-DOS questions. |
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| Fairware News |
THE PURGE So who’s left? Did you get a MAC II for Christmas? I’m updating my mailing list. If you want to remain on it, please say so. NEW CATALOG I’m not budgeted to do mass-mailings of my catalog. It gets revised frequently. Whenever you want the latest FAIRWARE catalog, please send $1.00 and a |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| JRT Pascal - Programming Language |
I said that last time we might actually begin writting a program in PASCAL using the JRT PASCAL system for CP/M and the AERCO RP/M disk system. What I am going to do is to actually “walk” you through a demo program, and a very simple one, that will show you what actually takes place |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Meeting Notes - January (FW) |
The meeting convened in MEETING ROOM ‘A* of the Fort worth Public Library at 300 Taylor Street in downtown Fort Worth. The next meeting is scheduled for MARCH 12, 1988 in MEETING ROOM “A”. The meetings are on the second Saturday of every month from 1:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. The meetings are open to |
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| More AERCO RP/M Utilities: SUBREN |
Have you even wondered how other computer owners get their machines to do something when they do not have BASIC in the ROM like the Sinclair and Timex does. Where do you put the command line? The answer is by using a utility like SUBREN. All this does is chain a number of programs or |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| More Customized MScript Versions Planned |
Customized MScript Version 6 is still in the works. In some, ways it’ll be a whole new program. I’m in the process of totally re-writing the Mscript machine code… not an easy task. I hope to find and correct some of the quirks and inconsistencies that have existed in Mscript since the beginning. |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Notes from the Editor |
This has been a fairly exhausting month. There has been so much going on that I really do not know where to start. I finally got BOTH the December and January newsletters out. That was a job in itself. The December newsletter, if you remember, was late because my disk interface needed to be repaired |
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| Overloader ver 1.2 (AERCO) |
In the December issue of the newsletter, John Battey, my CO-EDITOR, came up with an exceptional program called OVERLOADER. When you download an ASCII file that is longer that the 15500 bytes that will comfortably fit in an MSCRIPT file, you must divide that file. John came up with an appropriate program to allow the |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Relocating Machine Code Programs in the TS-2068 |
Why would one want to relocate machine code? Many M/C programs written for the 2068 are located in the same area of RAM. Sometimes one might want to use both if they can be used that way. If you relocate one, you may be able to use both. I had previously purchased the ZEAL disassembler |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| RP/M Telecommunicating with MODEM7 |
Since getting a corrected version of MODEM7 to work with the AERCO disk system with RP/M and the 2050 modem, I have done a great deal of downloading Public Domain programs. If you thought that MTERM II was confusing at times, that is nothing compared to MODEM7. I also thought that Specterm-64 took some time |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| RP/M Utilities: PRMPIP |
You should always make a back-up or archive copy of your favorite or most-often-used programs. I know that, after a few times of having to do the programs all over again, I now am making back-up copies to everything that I record or write. “Once burned” is enough of a lesson for me to learn. |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Screen Splitter - Continued |
Utility routine that enables you to save a SCREEN$ in one of 30 different ways, combinations of top pixels, middle pixels, bottom pixels, and attributes. |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Special Timex Notes from CATUG |
Ron Havlen (Editor of the Zebra FDD Newsletter) has adapted two CP/M telecommunications terminal programs to the Zebra FDD system (CP/M mode only). This allows the Zebra FDD users to download and use public domain CP/M software with their systems. |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| T/S 1000 Corner |
I wrote this program one day while trying to figure out how to read the TS 1000 display file. The point of this program is to figure out what is on the screen at a particular print position. It’s a game of driving a jeep through a minefield. Use arrow keys to avoid the mines. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Telecommunications on the QL |
The QL, for all its power and versatility, is limited in telecommunicating at 300 baud without a hardware link between the serial port and the modem. Michael Mitchell submitted the following. It will get you on line at 300 (or even 1200) baud with a Hayes compatible modem. |
Sinclair QL |
| The Organizer |
Type in this program for the 48K Spectrum and save it as SAVE “ORGANISER” LINE 1. But do not forget that this program goes along with the SCREEN SPLITTER program. |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
