EDIT This is being typed on WORD SYNC II by Gesang Associates – a word processor for the ZX-81/TS1000 series. Hopefully they’ll produce one shortly for the 2068, this is great. I’m using the large type format as it eats up space faster.
THIS IS:
LARGE TYPE-CAPITALS
large type-lower case
REGULAR UPPER CASE
regular lower case-on the
ZX-81/TS100!!!
See me for address on how to order.
NEW – the best news is that the TIMEX-Sinclair marketplace seems to be settling down a bit with so may 2068 being sold for $99 several companies have decided to hang in there for a while. Many items are available now and in the near future. These include at least three modems, including what was to have been the TIMEX 2050 modem. RS232 and Centronics interfaces are available for the 2068 and the selection of compatible printers is getting a bit confusing. Did I see an interface for the 2068 that would` permit hooking up a Radio Shack COLOR printer?
NEW GAME IN TOWN – thanks to Theo Koranye for the idea, let’s have a CHESS TOURNAMENT BETWEEN COMPUTERS!!!! We can get some help from local chess clubs and make it a competition between various makes! Let’s have a trial run some Saturday in June. I can set it up at my place in Owego. I have plenty of parking, electricity, and table space. I can provide a ZX-81 with TIMEX Chess, a 2068 with TIMEX Chess (Master Chess) and a 2068 with Soft Sync “VOICE CHESS”. I also should point out I don’t play chess-I can move the pieces is about all!!!
So sign up now to participate, help, or just visit. You want some real exposure? Just don’t make it the weekend of “Strawberry Festival”-June 23,I think.
THANKS TO KNIGHTED COMPUTERS for not only their participation in this issue of SINCUS NEWS but also their interest. It helps that one of the partners is an Owego kid! They not only bought the two page ad in this issue, but they also called me to fill me in some other info – specifially, they have a few 2068’s, a few 2040 printers, and lots of other stuff – software, and hardware. I’d like to arrange a Saturday trip – they’re just the other side of Syracuse!! Anyone interested? Call me at [phone number omitted] or [phone number omitted]. And thanks to Ray from Knighted for calling me with the address on where to order the “Technical Manual” send your $25 to:
TIMEX Materials Sales Division
P.O. Box 1378
Little Rock, Arkansas 72203
VERY INTERESTING!! See VIDEO REVIEW,May 1984,page 17 – Clive Sinclair announced his new TV receiver could be incorporated in a color TV set to make a one piece, 1,000 line high density video system that would cost only about $700. That is essentially a satellite receiver!!
Many thanks to Rick Johnson of the Cincinatti Users Group for the information and the tape that he sent. It included the list of users groups that they have, plus some other “goodies”. If you came to the meeting you saw some of them’
Personally, I am very pleased with the resurgance in our group. You know one of my philosophies has always been: “Yeah, though I walk through the valley of BIG BLUE, I shall fear no Peanuts!!!
Out of towners reading this should know SINCUS is based in the original home of IBM!!
Anyway we have spent too much time mourning the potential TIMEX is giving up. As Wes says in TIMEXly Tips – there is much to do. And, in fact, we have more support than we had two years ago! Se I hope you’ll come the meetings much is happening.
FROM THE TRIANGLE TIMEX-SINCLAIR USERS GROUP VIA CINCINATTI USERS
Here’s a way of going through the display file and darkening each dot, then printing everything with [illegible] for a nice dark hard copy image. This phenomenal routine was developed for the TS2068 by Dick Scoville.
Here is the routine in hex addresses and Z80 instructions
F490 LD HL,0058 5800
F493 DEC HL
F494 LD A,H
F495 CP 40 64
F497 RET C
F498 LD A,(HL)
F499 RRA
F49A OR (HL)
F49B LD (HL),A
F49C JR. F5 F493And here is the Hex code, start it at address 62608:
21,00,58,2B,7C,FE,40,D8,7E,1F,B6,77,18, and F5
And here is the BASIC/decimal POKE listing.
10 CLEAR 62607
15 LET a=62608
20 READ n
25 IF n=-1 THEN GO TO 50
30 POKE a,n
35 LET a=a+1
40 GO TO 20
50 STOP
60 DATA 33,0,88,43,124,254,64,216,126,31,182,119,24,245,-1Type it, RUN it, then [illegible] and [illegible] 62608. Behold a darker image. Now [illegible] it on the printer and BEHOLD PURE MAGIC
LATE NOTICE:
Many items are arriving as we go to press. Mail has been held up as a result of the butane RR car accident in Binghamton, so some things arrived too late for inclusion here. Coming to our meeting will insure that you get exposed to all of these things – like the program where the 2068 will play music, or the flag that you can POKE to set capital or lower case.
SO SEE YOU THERE NEXT MONTH!!!