| A Trip to the ZX-Team Land | The Fifth Annual (“Jubilee”) ZX-TEAM meeting was held in Dietges, Germany March 2nd through 4th and I was there! I’ve always wanted to attend a ZX-TEAM meeting, and this year, after getting a preliminary “okay” from the Director of Finance (my wife), I sent an inquiry to Peter Liebert-Adelt, who organizes the meeting each year. | |
| Graphics Procedures for HiSoft Pascal | The following HiSoft Pascal source code augments and provides some alternative methods to the graphic functions and procedures provided in the Turtle Graphics package that is supplied with HiSoft’s Pascal Version 1.7M compiler for the ZX Spectrum. Most of the procedures work by calling the appropriate ZX Spectrum ROM subroutines. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Input/Output | Letters from Paul Anderson, David Lassov, John Caylor, Stephen Beals, Peter Liebert, William McBrine, Luke Perry, Louis Fornit, Johnny Red, Tim Swenson, John Donaldson, Bob Swoger, Jay Shepard, Dane Stegman, David Solly | |
| Producing Flashy Listings | It is not widely known that ZX Spectrum and T/S 2068 listings can incorporate colour commands (and indeed FLASH and BRIGHT) as well as inverse video. This feature is probably a happy accident of the machine’s logical structure but it allows you to produce pretty listings. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Setting and Resetting Caps Lock | It is sometimes useful to be able to switch the ZX Spectrum keyboard’s cap mode on and off so as to control the keys for which a program is testing. Caps mode is controlled by the system variable FLAGS2 at location 23658 (#5C6A). | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
