SyncWare Co.
Owner(s):
Fred Nachbaur
El Monte, CA 91734
Nachbaur later started SyncWare News and changed his company name to Silicon Mountain Computers.
Products
| Name | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| Baby BBU | NiCad battery backup. 30 minute capacity. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| BBU-1 | Provides up to one hour of power via NiCd batteries. Connects between power supply and computer. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| BBU-2 | Provides more than two hours of power via NiCd batteries. Includes built-in, heavy duty power supply, power indicators and power switch. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Common-Emitter Transistor Amplifier | Design and analysis of common-emitter transistor amplifiers. Biasing, stability, frequency response, input/output resistances, power dissipation, and thermal effects taken into account. Prints schematic and Hybrid-Pi equivalent circuit, stores up to five different transistor spec sheets. 16K. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| Fun and Games I | 5 games: Syncwars, Minotaur, Nim, ContsEntration, and TS Doodle. 2K. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| Games I | Listing, documentation, and cassette of four games. Sync wars: keyboard reaction time; in 1K, 2K and 16K. Guess My Number: Logical deduction. Blackjack: Sheer luck, 16K. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Memotext (RAM-based) | Includes Powell Hargrave’s Super Data Save (SDS) relocated and incorporated for fast load and saves of text. Help screens and a return to BASIC are also included. Requires memory in the 8-16 K block and the Memotech parallel interface. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Miner's Revenge | Get fabulously rich if you crack the motherload. The old miner’s last will, will help you on the way, equipped with a pick-axe, flares, spikes, and a lantern. The 9 markers left by the old miner will guide you to the big vein, but watch out for falls that cause the loss of time and | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| Multiprogram Demo | Tutorial on a technique for storing multiple programs in 16K or more RAM at the same time. No machine language knowledge assumed. Cassette illustrates the technique with four games programs: all programs listable. Games are condensed versions of “Syncwars,” “Minotaur,” and “Blackjack.” 16K. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| NFLX Football | Provides a full-featured football contest for one or two players. Safeties, interceptions, runs, passes, punts, fumbles, and field goals are displayed with machine code graphics. Defensive plays include Blitz, Red Dog, Normal, and Prevent. Includes demo option to continually demonstrate pass and running plays. 16K. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| Storm Lander 3 | Make an emergency landing at Denver’s Stapleton Airport in your commercial airliner, during a thunderstorm. Three screens of graphics show your progress in avoiding storm clouds. other aircraft, mountains, and downtown Denver, while homing in on navigation beams for a safe descent to the runway and finally taxiing to the terminal. 16K. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| Super Slide | You are in the 1988 Olympics bobsled event. Pick up points while avoiding skid-patches, walls, ruts, and the course boundary. If you pass the qualifying run, you compete in two heats. Your score on both runs places your final position in a field of over 80 competitors. You must be very good to win the | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| SyncMath | Math quizzes for three levels of difficulty. Game rewards double as keyboard trainers. 6-16 yrs. 16K. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
Books
| Name | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| SyncWare News Vol. 1 | Reprints of articles from the first year of SyncWare News (June 1983 – June 1984). Many useful tips for ZX81, TS1000 and TS2068 users. Table of Contents | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
Periodicals
| Name | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| SyncWare News | More technical publication that printed many hardware articles. |
Documents
Downloads
| Name | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| Blackjack (1000) | Adapted from a similar game Fred Nachbaur had written earlier for the first TRS-80 Pocket Computer. This is a direct application of Greg Harder’s “SRAM Hi-Res Extended BASIC” (aka SHREB) that demonstrates just a few of the cool things you can do with this package. Runs in a standard 16K ZX81 or equivalent, plus 8K | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Common-Emitter Transistor Amplifier | Design and analysis of common-emitter transistor amplifiers. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Dungeon of Ymir | High resolution, "Dungeons and Dragons" graphic adventure game, Rogue-like. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Fun and Games Tape 1 | Five games/programs for the TS1000: | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Invaders | Fred Nachbaur’s Christmas present to his customers in 1987. This one’s claim to fame is that it used the SHREB package, but most of the program runs in machine-code, demonstrating that the SHREB package is a useful library of graphics routines as well as a BASIC extension. This program has a bug that’s so charming | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Mandelbrot-FPP | This is the classic Mandelbrot set fractal. The program is pretty much self-documenting, its claim to fame is the use of the ZX81’s calculator language directly, to give about a 3x speed increase over straight BASIC. However, it’s still pretty slow… be forewarned. MAND4-FP.P is a quadric Mandelbrot in medium-res dithered greyscale (needs 32K) | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Multiprogram Demo | Demo versions of program that appear on the Fun and Games tape. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Ymir Dungeon Designer | Level designer for Dungeon of Ymir. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| ZX*TERM*80 | SCRAM Board required – 8K in 8->16 K region. Support for Westridge and Byteback Modems. Support for TASMAN TYPE B OR C, AERCO OR OLIGER 2068, OLIGER 1000 (MAPPED FFFF), MEMOTECH CENTRONICS, MEMOTECH RS232, ENER-Z REPORT GENERATOR, EPROM SERVICES C.P.,BYTE-BACK C.P. printer interfaces. 16K Program. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
Articles
| Title | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| Editor Ramblings | Corrections to programs. Timex T/S-1000 computer sweeping the country. Keyboards from data-assette. Memotech RAM packs. Microdrive from SyncWare. Mindware printer delay. Computer judge assigments made by computer in Chicago. What is VU-CALC? | |
| Mini-Reviews: Timex Sinclair User, Nightgunner, more | Reviews of Timex Sinclair User magazine, Multi-Program tape from SyncWare, Nightgunner from Softsync, Key Stroke Management and Truth Tables from 2-Bit Software, Inventory Control and Manufacturing Control from Timex. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| New Product Announcement (Syntax v3 n6) | ZX FORTH, battery back-up units. | Sinclair ZX81 |
| New Products and Services (Syntax v4 n2) | New products from Expense Cutters Products, JPR Software, Biocal, Memotech, R.S. Panwar, Wisconsinc Electronics, Calliope Software, Practical Computer Products, Melear Marketing, SofTek, RAMSTRAP, Syncware,f/22 Press, Hunter, Friendly Computer, M.C. Hoffman, Integrated Data Systems, Softsync. | |
| New Products and Services (Syntax v4 n6) | New products from Daydesign, Compuwiz, G. Russell Electronics, SofTec, DJM Software, Compucraft, DK’tronics, Timeworks, Toptronics, Florida Creations, ZX/TS Software Exchange Club, Busyness, SyncWare, Memotech, Stuart Software. | |
| News on Sinclair Magazines | ||
| To Buy or Not to Buy? Hardware | Reviews of E-Z Keyboard from E-Z Key, Timex 2040 printer, Battery Backup from SyncWare. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
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