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 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |