New Products and Services (Syntax v4 n4)

Publication: Syntax
Pub Details: Syntax/Syntax ZX80 v4 n4 (Volume 4, Issue 4)
Date: April 1983
Pages: 2-3

Easy Eye Filter gives yellow screen on b/w TV or monitor. Comes with stick-on fasteners, 10″ x 12″ trimmable to smaller sizes, special order larger sizes. $12.95 plus $2 P&H. Strap Down is a pre-cut and punched strap to hold your ZX/TS and RAM pack. Includes cable clamp to organize cables, $5.95 plus $1 P&H. Artisan Electronics, POB 6631, Portsmouth, VA 23793.

Individual instruction packs on ZX/TS video, keyboard, loading and saving, and memory packs. Covers trouble shooting, tips and hints. $7 each, Spectra Computer Products, POB 41795, Tucson, AZ 85717.

Free membership to Timex Computer Club and monthly newsletter. Timex Computer Club, Margot Murphy, POB 2655, Waterbury, CT 06725.

ZX/TS bulletin board free, $15 one-time membership fee activates special features–in Nashua, NH. Call 300/1200 baud data-line 603-888-6999. Chuck Oropallo is SYSOP, 6 April Dr., Nashua, NH 03060. Leave messages on-line for user 10053 or mail to Jim Giddings, 77 Ives St. #305, Providence, RI 02906.

16K Mail Master program has edit and search routines. Options are: add names, list, edit, inform, search/view, and search/print. Supports ZX/TS-compatible printers. 16K Data Master has full edit and search routines. 16K Chart Master generates and analyzes bar charts. Tape with manual $6.95 each. Free catalog available. L. Harmon, 4909 Clearlake Dr., Metairie LA 70002.

CFASTDATA utility lets you write data to tape from strings, arrays or memory locations. Helps translate BASIC programs with WRITE and INPUT statements. Needs 16K or more, $20 plus $1.50 P&H. CFASTDUET has two utilities, CFASTLOAD and CFASTDATA. Use together to write and load quicker. Needs 16K, $27.50 plus $1.50 P&H. Cosmonics, POB 10358, San Jose, CA 95157.

Memotext word processor with editing features puts 32-character lines on screen. Memopak Assembler codes, edits Z80 source programs and assembles into MC. $49.95 each, Memotech, 7550 W. Yale Ave., Denver, CO 80227, 800/662-0949.

ZX/TS XFORTH language uses a simple one word call to return to BASIC. Needs 16K, leaves 10K for user code and dictionary enhancement. Also has extra utilities such as PLOT, CLS, RAND. Pre-publication release offer until April 23, $14 plus $1 P&H. Hawg Wild Software, 7575 Cantrell/21, Little Rock, AR 72207.

New free catalog of computer interference control products (#831) helps cut out interference on your ZX/TS. Electronic Specialists, Inc., 171 South Main St., Natick, MA 01760, 617/655-1532.

Z-TOOLS machine code utilities include: MERGE combines two BASIC programs; RENUM renumbers selected lines, includes numbered GOTOs and GOSUBs and flags those with expressions; COPY and DELETE selected blocks of lines; VERIFY checks tape contents against memory. Two 16K versions: one addressed to 14-16K, and to 8-10K. $14.95, Sinware, Box 8032, Santa Fe, NM 87504.

Reverse Video Module converts characters to white on dark backround. Module with instructions, $8.95. 16K Easy Graph converts data into bar graph, $9.95. 16K ACZ General Ledger records ledger transactions, handles up to 400 entries, $29.95. Cottage Technology, 5720 W. Little York, Suite 178, Houston, TX 77091.

Z-XLR8 tape storage system SAVEs and LOADs files 6-10x faster than standard LOAD/SAVE. Error checking insures proper program loading. Cassette tape version can relocate between 8-32K, needs 16K, $11 ppd. EPROM version resides between 14-16K, $21 ppd. Advanced Interface Designs, POB 1350, State College, PA 16801, 814/237-9268.

Sunbelt Conference on Educational Computing, June 1-4, offers ZX/TS instruction for both novices and advanced users. Films, exhibits, demonstration lab, and public domain software exchange also included. Dr. Jerry Willis, c/o College of Education, Box 4560, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, 806/742-2381.

16K Biorythm/Compatibility program computes emotional, physical and intellectual cycles for any month. Gives degree of compatibility between two people based on biorythmic cycles. Tape $9.95 plus $1.50 P&H. Software Unlimited, POB 147, Grandview, MO 64030.