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# A Header Program for ZX81 & TS1000

When I got my TS-2068 I thought one of the marvellous things about it was a Header program by which one could get the name of a program displayed on-screen a few seconds after it started loading. If only the ZX-81 had that feature it would be marvellous, I thought. Where have I been all this time?

I have only just discovered there is a program to do practically the same thing. It is to be found in Mike Lord’s book “Explorers guide to the ZX-81”. How I ever spotted it I will never know.

With the thought there must be many in the same position as myself, I would like to present this practical program.