This is our current list of UG swappers, we are always interested in hearing from new folks.
T/S Users Group, PO BOX 7274, Station A
Toronto,ONT MSW 1X9 CANADA
LIST, PO Box 438, Centerport, NY 11721
CATS UG. PO BOX 725, Bladensburg,
Maryland 20710
T/S UG of Las Vegas, 2405 Howard Dr.
Las Vegas, NV 89104
CCATS UG,1419 1/2 7th St. Oregon City,
Oregon 97045
Triangle UG 206 James St. CARRBORO,
North Carolina 27510
SLUG, 9800 Mary Dell Ln, Louisville,
Kentucky 40291
South Bay TSUG, PO Box 4133, Santa Clara
California 95054
S/TUG of BCS, 284 Great Rd, APt D-5,
Acton, MA 01720
T/SUG of Cincinnati, 11 Funston Ln,
Cincinnati, OH 45216
John Kuhn, [address omitted] JAcksonville,
Florida
We have mailed out over the past 2 months over 25 of our newsletters in trying to expand our swap network (one response to date) -either the rest are no longer publishing or didn’t get our newsletter for one reason or another.
The following are “clippings” from other newsletters th[illegible] this info we gather be made known to all our readers:
From CATS: Sinclair in England has released the Spectrum 4. It is enclosed in a QL size keyboard….
Next from SUM Magazine Problems with TS 2050 modem and power strip?? “We hear from our customers that they have a problem loading the software tape that comes with the Westridge modem. If you are using a power strip move your plug on the recorder to another outlet and it should work. Does anyone want to comment on that??” (PH note:60Hz hum??).
FromTIMELINEZ (SBTSUG) from TS Users of Cincinnati, by Gary Szekeres: The BUG in Vu Calc(2068) LINE 3200 should be:
3200 CLEAR 29327:DIM b$(100):DIM c$(20): etc.rest of statement intact. The CLEAR 29327 is missing and cause the clear work sheet routine not to work. to get back into VuCalc GOTO 3200(ENTER). …from Charles R. Byler, Cpt US Army, [address omitted]…”TS1000/ZX81 owners to load and stop auto run machine code program, enter as a direct command FAST, then RAND USR 836. Play the program. Program will load and stop with a report code C/0. ..from CATS the area in RAM used for Bank switching starts at 25365 and contains 323 bytes. This space can be used for MC so long as bank switching isn’t being used. Unused fixed addresses are located in the system variable area at 23681, 23728-9 and 23747. Thanks to Bruce Nickel of CATS.
FROM SINCUS thanks Stan Livingston
FOR THE ZX81/TS1000/1500
5 REM HEX > DEC
10 POKE 30000,1
20 POKE 30003,201
30 LET X= 30001
40 LET A$=""
50 IF A$=""THEN INPUT A$
60 PRINT A$;
70 IF A$ =" "THEN GOTO 120
80 POKE X,16*CODE A$+CODE A$(2)-476
90 LET X=X+1
100 LET A$=A$(3 TO )
110 GOTO 50
120 PRINT " ";PEEK (X-2)*256+PEEK(X-1)Run it and ENTER a hex number “FFFF” and it will print 65535
Jim Webb, our newest SINCUS member gave this tip on the ZX81 TS1000 machine. To clear up TV reception, Jim drilled small holes in the plastic body and improved the grounding by installing small metal wood screws, wrap copper wire from ground strap to screw head, also did likewise to the 16K RAM pac.
Anyone have problems getting “INVALID COLOR” when you aren’t even using color? Happens when I use the INVERSE VIDEO every now and then haven’t been able to make it happen. Anyone else? I’ve gotten a flashing letter in the listings be SHIFT GRAPHICS in extended mode once and cannot cause it to happen again!!!