| 6 Keyboards Compared: Which is the one for you? |
Add-on keyboards are available for your T/S — but which one should you buy? |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Aliens earn top marks (3D-Orbiter) |
This space invaders game has superb visual effects that possess almost a three-dimensional quality. To defend yourself (and Earth) you must guard an area two screen-widths across using sophisticated tracking devices including forward radar, a proximity meter and an altimeter. The alien ships grow and display increasingly fine detail as they approach, and explode with |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Also from Timex: a new printer |
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| Binomial Distribution |
Display shows a ball falling through a triangular matrix of pegs. When the ball hits one of the pegs, it rebounds to the left or right, entirely at random. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| British prices fall again |
Sinclair Research in Britain maintained its reputation when, with no more than a brief press statement, announced a massive cut in the prices of the two versions of Spectrum. |
Sinclair ZX Spectrum |
| Bulletins |
Updates from Hawg Wild, Silicon Valley North, Daydesign, T-S Systems, Intercomputer, Mindware, Micro Developments, DK’tronics, MicroSync, Florida Creations, Len Harmon, Filesixty, Data-assette. |
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| Circuit training helps to build good characters |
Expansion to allow user-defined characters. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Comdex '83 |
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| Computerized Filing Cabinet |
ZX-DATA FINDER is a storage and retrieval program with some very advanced title and word search features. It is unique because you don’t have to set file sizes before you begin. Any length of file can be stored in the same program with no loss of precious memory. Computer magazines advertise quite a few different |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Deja-vu (ZX Scramble) |
The object is to hit enemy installations before they hit you, while simultaneously maneuvering to avoid crashing into treacherous terrain. Unfortunately, the game moves very slowly, and the terrain repeats itself like a chase scene in a poorly animated cartoon. The enemy, seemingly unaware of your presence, fires haphazardly; though I made no effort to |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Dice |
Simple program to roll six-sided dice. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Eat the dots ... (GULP) |
In this maze game you move around any one of six mazes at any one of nine speeds while a hunter tries to capture you. Though the mazes take time to master and contain some difficult passageways, the game can be played at reasonably fast speeds. You may find the cursor keys difficult to use |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Fast Aliens (Galaxia) |
Another alien invasion. You must protect the planet from hostile Thargon forces. The game features a high-score display, dive- bombing aliens, continuous play, smooth action, fast response, and good graphics. Each time you clear the screen the aliens are replaced, until you deplete your three lives. The game is not easy to beat — the |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Flash Card |
Program to make flash cards into a game. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Glimpse of the Series 2000 |
To give you a head start on the Timex Sinclair 2000-series color computer, Fred Blechman explains how to use the keyboard of its prototype, the Spectrum from Sinclair. |
Timex/Sinclair 2000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Hot under the Microchip |
Has your T/S1000 ever crashed? If so, chances are it was due to overheating – probabyl the most common cause. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Kingdom |
Manage a rural realm, attempt to increase personal wealth and protect your people from flood, famine and the depredations of the ruthless local banditry. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Let this software help you run your home |
Reviews and compares four programs specifically designed to help manage money; one to set home files straight (birthdays, recipes, phone numbers, and so on) and one full 16K program just for all those bonus coupons that accumulate. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Letters |
ON U.K. IMPORTS I need some assistance! It concerns all these helpful books written by the English for the English, then sold to unsuspecting Americans — like me. It seems no one has bothered to edit these programs to be useful to Americans. I hope your experts will warn us of software which is useful |
Sinclair ZX81 |
| Microdrives for T/S Machines? |
Sinclair Research is close to announcing the launch date for the Microdrive. |
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| Minotaurs |
Maze game: avoid the hungry minotaur. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| More than Electronic Babysitting |
The man behind the camp program at Wesleyan College in Fort Worth, doesn’t like to make predictions. But one fact in the future of education Dr. Mark Wasicsko is sure of: computers. “I’m convinced education is going in that direction,” he says “Every state in the country has passed a resolution to aim for computer |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Now in Canada |
TX Computers Canada (the official name of Timex Computers in Canada) will be launching the TS1000 in Canada this summer. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Sharp Shooter |
You are the black-hatted villain confronting a posse of lily-livered bounty hunters. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Simple ways of sorting data |
How to program and comparison of sorts: bubble and shell. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Sleeper (Demolisher) |
A mass of blocks grows beneath you; points are gained by dropping bombs on particular blocks, and lost by missing. The game ends when the mass of blocks reaches the demolisher. As you have little to do but drop bombs, this game is definitely a sleeper. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Software Blues |
The program loads. 0/0 appears on the screen. The printed instructions tell us to type GO to 1 to start: not the most elegant beginning, but acceptable. Then we are asked level? but nowhere told how to enter it. Finally logic impels us to press 1, and the screen turns gray and stays that way, |
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| Software Spooks |
You choose the number (from one to four) of ghosts you wish to evade — the difficulty increases with each additional ghost, and they pursue you with increasing speed in each subsequent play. Though the maze is not adjustable, it is well-constructed and features complicated turns and passages. The keys that control movement (6, 7, |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Squashed |
Variation on Breakout. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Star Gates |
Guide each ship through star gates to escape the impending super nova. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| T/S Goes To Camp |
Computing is fast becoming the latest thing in both day and overnight camps, and many camps across the country already include it among some of their activities. Ah, summer camp. The smell of wood smoke at dusk, the tender-tight feel of a sunburnt nose and tiFed paddling muscles, the sounds of shouts and splashes from |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| The 2040: Efficient, Fast and Affordable |
Review of the printer. |
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| Timex introduces the 1500 |
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Timex/Sinclair 1500 |
| Timex responds |
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| Tips for Beginners |
Warning: using a T/S1000 can be habit-forming. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Usborne books are delightful & fun |
I have a friend who suffers from computer-phobia — fear of the chip. Whenever I try to interest him in a programming career, he replies, “I can’t learn that stuff. It’s too complicated.” Recently, I invited Dean to my home, gave him Understanding the Micro and a cold beer, and left him at the dining |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Useful programming tips |
Review of The ZX81/Timex Pocket Book by Trevor Toms. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
