Games for Your Timex-Sinclair 2000
Dell Publishing Company, Inc.,1983
124 pp., softcover, $5.95
Games for Your Timex-Sinclair 2000 by Peter Shaw is a collection of 23 games that utilize both the sound and the high-resolution graphic capabilities of the Timex computer. Even if you aren’t a “video Junkie”, some of the programming techniques used by Shaw are worth looking into for use in other programs.
Shaw has successfully translated some favorite arcade games (sorry, no “Pac-Man”!) for the Timex computer. “Frogger”, “Lunar Lander”, and “Death Race 2000” come to mind as I look through the table of contents for this book.
Through the use of UDGs (User-Defined Graphics), the games take on a very realistic look; not the blurry blobs we have been accustomed to in many other home computer games.
I do have a few suggestions on how to make entering the listings in this book easier and more enjoyable. First, type in the lines from 9000 to the end of the program you are entering, and RUN them. This generates the UDGs described above for that particular program. Then enter the remainder of the program.
Next, since the Timex-Sinclair has built-in joystick ports, why not use them? By replacing the INKEY$ commands with appropriate STICK commands, the playability of each game improves greatly. The User Manual included with the computer details the STICK command very well.