The Sinc Times (2)

For MS-DOS programmers that never programmed on a Sinclair QL.

Introduction to advantages of compiled BASIC and MCODER.

Description/introduction to Forth and short review of ZX Forth.

Description/introduction to LOGO and short review of Tiny Logo.

Description of Pascal and introduction to Semper Software’s Partial Pascal.

Review of Mike de Sosa’s book.

Discussion of checksum programs as a program type-in aid.

Continues discussing checksums and Stan Lemke’s CK Type.

Series of articles about programming.

Continuing article in programming.

Discussion of checksum programs.

Short program to calculate loan payments.

Column for CP/M and AERCO RP/M users.

Listing of CP/M commands, continued from article in previous issue.

Overview of the TS scene and the issue.

User group news; Winterfest announcement.

Welcome to the first issue of the user group’s newsletter.

Introduction to writing a program to implement the Hazen/Williams formula for calculating water flow in pipe.

Program to calculate water flow variables using the Hazen/Williams formula.

One user’s experience with the computer.

Continues reviewing experiences with the computer.

Fix the minimally-decoded Kempston adapter to with more limited IO range. Only one address line (A5) is decoded in the Kempston; this fix adds A6 and A7 to limit its range of IO ports.

Program and connection instructions for a security alarm.

Short program to demonstrate trigonometric functions.

Continues discussing modems and online services.

Discussion of modems and online services.

Three Christmas songs as performed by the TS 2068.

Programming hints and tips for TS 1000 and TS 2068 users.

Review of Update Magazine, published by Bill Jones.

Review of the system.

Reprinted from the first issue.

Introduction to the file format, explanation of where to find and view them. Jack Dohany has written an encoder/decoder program.

Program to display the flag and play the song.

Short news bits.

Notice of upcoming meeting, listing vendors and activities.

Announcement of the event, held March 4-6, 1988 in Orlando, Fla. Organized by the Northeast Florida T/S Users Group.

Tips and updates for TS owners.

Introduction from a new machine language programmer.

Short review of the book.

Tips for users and programmers.

Short review of Timex Sinclair BASIC Primer with Graphics by Waite and Chapnick.

Short article and schematic for UPS.