COUPON MAGIC
BILL’S COUPON MAGIC is a program written by Bill Erickson of Decatur, GA for the T/S 2068. He sells his own program through HD SOFTWARE, for $14.95 + $1.50 for postage. His address is: 1445 Oldfield Road, Decatur, GA 30030.
This program is a lot more than it first appeared. Actually, there are three differenct functions. The first one is a shopping list that you can enter your items in categories and include the estimated cost of each item. When you are finished, it will give you the estimated amount of money you need to take with you to the store. There is an example provided for easy reference. The second feature is the coupon manager. It is very comprehensive and allows you to store up to 99 coupons with a description apiece. Then you can add coupons to the file or delete old expired ones with the search option Finally, the third function is an all purpose list manager for anything that suits your fancy.
All of the lists can be sent to the 2040 Printer. You can also save all your data on tape. The program comes with very good documentation.
COUPON MAGIC is an attempt at a useful program. At first, I had visions of sitting down and clipping coupons and tediously entering each one into the computer. This seems like it would be a time consuming chore. I feel this program has a lot more potential being a list manager.
Mr. Erickson has programmed some very nice screen displays for this program, and I really liked the “women with shopping carts” design. All in all this is a nice software package.
THE DEALER’S DEN
THE DEALER’S DEN is a card game program written by Timothy Kessler for the T/S 2068. It is sold exclusively by WMJ DATA SYSTEMS, 4 Butterfly Drive, Hauppauge, New York 11788. It sells for $19.95 ppd. and there is also a version available for the Commodore 64.
On side one of the cassette tape, is the main program THE DEALER’S DEN. You play four hands of Poker against the dealers one hand. You can throw away unwanted cards once for each hand. You can also select a bet. At the beginning of the program is a table that shows what combination of cards get what value.
I am not exaggerating when I say that THE DEALER’S DEN is genuine fun. Although, I must admit that I am a card game fanatic. When I started playing this one, they couldn’t tear me away from the screen!
On side two is another game called DRAW POKER. It is just like the first game, only this time you play only one hand against the dealers hand. It is easier to play, but much harder to win. I preferred the first game.
The graphics for these programs are very good. About the best I have seen for card games on the Sinclair. There is even a little animated card-shuffling sequence while the program is loading. I would recommend that you do use a quality monitor, due to the high resolution of some of the cards and suits are hard to tell apart sometimes.
If you want to pass some time away playing a challenging game of Poker, do yourself a favour and pick up a copy of THE DEALER’S DEN.