S.N.U.G. is gearing up, they have a charter from the state of Florida, the members have selected nominees for offices and now the officers are being voted on. Results to follow in next issue.
CAPITALFEST- May 5, 6 and 7, 1989 at the Howard Johnson Motor Inn, Route 450 and the Beltway (Eastside-around Washington D.C.)New Carrollton, MD. Contact C.A.T.S. CAPITALFEST, PO BOX 24, Garrett Park, Maryland 20896-0024 tele:(301)439-8756 and HURRY! Make plans, make those reservations NOW. This ought to be a well attended show because it is in the most heavily populated section of this country. By the way if this is your first trip to the Capital stay a least three more days to catch just some of the highlights of this fanatasic place! There are enough TS computer nuts hanging around here to really have a great time- put faces on names you have heard of, bump into hundreds of other members of the TS community, just plain folks who help others at the drop of a byte. See new and old stuff, learn, listen and maybe meet new friends, hear new ideas and enjoy.
CATSUG(Chicago) Nite-Times News-reprinted from ZX-Appeal, a plan on how to install a line busy indicator diode and another for a voltage regulator to stabilize modem output.
Sir Clive may be getting married pretty soon, from the Harrisburg Area TSUG via a member in England.
MAXCOM-from Larken. A terminal program for Larken Disc and cartridge users. A choice of 300 or 1200 baud receiving program, and a BBS program for your 2068. I have only tried the terminal package (on disc). It is in 64 columns in the terminal mode. It also allows you to load your buffer with whatever you want, and when the buffer is full, it automatically dumps to the disc. Note Oliger disc users must remove the B’ board while the program is in use. The phone dialing system is called auto dialing, but it is set up for one number and one try. A simple loop added to the program could allow a try until answer system. One could also probably think up some way to add a page of numbers to elimanate the entering of numbers. Between the flu and local BBSs being down, I have only had time to try the terminal program, and I like the 64 characters across the screen. I had so much trouble with the local BBSs, that I thought the new MAXCOM had possibly screwed them up. Phew, was I glad to learn the problem was something else. You can get the MAXCOM from LARKEN, RMG and Ed Gray for $25 plus shipping.
Time Designs- where are you? Have read of sightings of the Sep/Oct issue, but none locally. This cannot help renewals. Maybe a merge of all forces into one mag may be the only way the TS community can support a healthy publication.
SMUG Bytes, POB 101, Butler WS 53007; Has an article and listing for a 2068 multitasking routine. It is copyrighted. We have on our swap disc a Sprite program written by Wes Brzozowski a couple years ago. This one has a smiling face bouncing all over the place, thru a listing or thru another program.
With much thanks to Ray Byler, a corresponding member from Ft Riley, KS we are now in possession of the product of much effort, a TS2068 and Spectrum ROM call listing, but listed both alphabetically and by address by both machines, with corresponding listing in the other machine. Ray sent a laser copy of the printout, some 10 pages both sides. We are going to reproduce this as part of the SINCUS NEWS CAPITALFEST Issue, which will be part of your May/June issue. To support the cost of this give away we will be selling copies of Computus Interruptus and Clone and some of our surplus TS1000s and other material.