ROMPAK
8206 Blackburn Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90048
ROMPAK produced circuit boards that could hold a 24-pin (1K-4K)or 28-pin (8K-16K) EPROM and offered several programs on EPROM for use with its board.
Products
| Name | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| Action-Pak | Time Blasters and Mazeball on ROM. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Black-Jack-Pak | Up to four players. Split, double-down, insurance, 5-card Charlie on ROM. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Blank ROM Cartridge | Cartridge for ROMPAK ROMs. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Financial-Pak | “Money Matters”: wise counsel on interest rates, loans, mortgages, net worth, more. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Galactic Pak | 16K. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Graphix Pak | Utility routines. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Hex Pak | Machine code monitor/editor. 16K. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Mini-Pak | “Ski-Bum” and “Galaxon” arcade games. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Muse-Pak | “Haiku” composes poetry. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Party-Pak | Wordmaster has baffling vocabulary; Insight reveals secrets by asking innocent questions. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Quickload Cartridge | Saves/loads programs fifteen times faster. Stores megabyte on one cassette. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 1500, Downloadable |
| Sci-Pak | A full range of math functions. Graphing, curve fitting, simultaneous equations, polar coordinates, more. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Textwriter 1000 | Word processor. Capabilities include insert/delete, text compression/realignment and buffer memory for saving portions of text to use elsewhere. Also includes tabulation, logically formatted display, text save, and printer control. Also available on ROM from ROMPAK. 16K. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| Virtuoso | Music synthesis program. 10 octave range, whole to 32nd and dotted notes and rests. Self performs songs at any tempo; SAVE for later use. Hear through TV, amplifier, AM radio, or record. Instructions include coding from written music for non-musicians. Length expanded to 1 50 notes.Songs may be saved for future use. Also available on | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| ZX Pro/File | Machine language database with multi-word search, ordered displays, definable printer functions. Flexible file size, instant file access. 59 page manual and updates via newsletter. Available on ROM from ROMPAK. 16-64K. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
Books
Periodicals
Documents
Downloads
| Name | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| ZX Profile and Quickload | Thomas Wood’s ZX Profile and ROMPACK’s Quickload. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
Articles
| Title | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| HOW To Use The ROMPAK TS1000 PRO/FILE | My old pal, Floyd Cox, writes, “How do I use the Rompak Quickload and Pro/File cartridge on my TS1000?” Answer: The Quickload Pro/File cartridge which was manufactured by Rompak, and is still being sold by Sunset Electronics in San Francisco, plugs into the back of your computer. When you power the computer up, the “K” | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| New Product News, Old Product Offers | Updates on products from Budget Robotics and Computing, ROMPAK, Hunter, Oliger, Compusa, Softmark, W. T. Associates, Markel Software, D. Lipinski, Siriusware and Ace Software. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| New Products and Services (Syntax v4 n10) | New products from UAS, John Carson, A. Rodriguez, Williamware, ROMPAK, Intercomputer, Micro-Load, Soft Magic Corp., Larimar Inc., Robotec, Simulsion. | |
| New Products and Services (Syntax v5 n3) | Updates and new products from Thomas B. Woods, ROMPAK, JRC Software, Games to Learn By. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Resources (Sync v4 n1) | Listing of new user groups, books and other resources. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| ROMPack | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| ROMPack | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| ROMPAK | The Rompak cartridge can instantly load programs, such as games or utilities, into memory. The cartridge is memory mapped in the unused 8 to 16k block of memory, and it has an expansion connector out the back, so it can be used with the T/S printer or ram pack. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| ROMPAK ROM Card | ROMPAK permits you to use many programs instantly—cartridges in the rough. An adaptor plugs onto your ZX/TS and provides a socket to contain the program ROM. A simple machine code routine in the ROM moves the program into RAM in under a second, and you’re ready to go. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Support | A & J Microdrive offers microdrives; Heath Computer Services has business programs; ROMPAK has Pro/File, Textwriter and others on ROM. | |
| The ROMPAK System | Review of a expansion board that supports EPROMs in the 8-16K block; board uses a ZIF socket. The company had several programs on EPROM. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |