CassFile2

Date: 198x
Type: Cassette
Platform(s): TS 1000

One individual’s cassette containing a number of programs. It is a Radio Shack tape labelled “CASSFILE #2” and marked “TS1”, with a handwritten list of programs on each side: games, a voice recognition program, Frits Beniest’s Extended BASIC, two filing programs, a memory editor, programming utilities and a calendar.

Programs on the Tape

Side A

  • 1_ROCKET: the label lists “Lo-Res” first, but this recording holds CASSFILE*1, a BASIC cassette catalogue. It keeps up to ten cassette files, each with a cassette name, normal or ZXLR8 fast-load mode, and up to ten program names with tape-counter positions, and can create, view, revise, delete, print, save and erase them. Its title screen is dated 11-16-84 and initialled “RGS”.
  • 2_KARTIK: referee and scorekeeper for a crossword board game for two to eight players (also #57757 Kartik)
  • 3_VOICER: voice recognition that records voiceprints through the tape port with machine code (also #57759 Voice)
  • 4_EXTBAS: demonstration of Frits Beniest’s Extended BASIC, version 2.1 (also #56677 Extended Basic Demo)
  • 5_EXTBAS: a short copy of Extended BASIC 2.1 with its machine code and welcome message, set to save itself as EXTBASIC; the label’s “Ext Basic”
  • 6_TANK: lay mines in the path of a tank before it runs you down or shoots you (also #57762 Mad Dog Tank Blaster)

Side B

  • 1_RAMPGR: RAMPAGE-R, a machine code memory editor with page, copy, insert and kill commands (also #56707 RAMPager)
  • 2_LinSrc: the label’s “Linear Search”; a free-text file of four-line entries searched by machine code, titled ZX/FILE FINDER on screen (also #57770 ZX Data Finder)
  • 3_ProFl: filing and search program with records managed by machine code (also #51821 ZX Profile)
  • 4_ProUtl: the label’s “2-Byte”; hex-to-decimal, decimal-to-hex and two-byte (low/high) converters starting at line 9000, for merging into other programs (also #57774 Programming Utilities)
  • 6_Cal: perpetual calendar for 1801 to 2399 (also #57776 Calendar)
  • 7_StrTrk: Star Trek on a 5 × 5 sector grid against 15 Klingon cruisers (also #57778 Star Trek)

Side B’s label lists a fifth item, “Computer…”, between 2-Byte and Calendar; it is not in the download, which skips from file 4 to file 6. The download has a TZX file and a plain-text listing (.b81) for each program, with photos of both sides of the cassette.

Content

Calendar

Program

A perpetual calendar covering 1801–2399 that highlights your chosen date in inverse video and uses a clever string-based data store to pack day and month names.

Extended Basic Demo

Cassette

A self-running demo showcases an Extended BASIC cartridge's extra commands—DRAW, FILL, SCROLL, CIRCLE, and more—all driven by a clever machine-code interpreter hidden inside a single REM line.

Kartik

Program

A full referee program for a crossword game, encoding letter identities and point scores together in a single floating-point board array.

Mad Dog Tank Blaster

Program

A ZX81 action game where a mad tank fires wildly in all directions — can you plant your five mines before time, bullets, or the tank itself finish you off?

Programming Utilities

Program

A machine code helper that converts hex, decimal, and two-byte values using clever ZX81 system variable tricks — designed to drop straight into any project.

RAMPager

Program

A full-featured RAM text editor built around a Z80 machine code payload hidden inside a single REM statement — with block-graphics title art and a live command reference screen.

Star Trek

Program

Command the Enterprise across a 5×5 galaxy grid, hunting 15 Klingons with torpedoes, phasers, and impulse drive before time and energy run out.

Voice

Program

A BASIC shell drives embedded machine code to sample spoken words, build voiceprints from eight repetitions, and recognise up to ten stored vocabulary entries.

ZX Data Finder

Program

A searchable free-text file. Each entry is four lines typed in at the keyboard, and you find entries by typing

ZX Profile

Cassette

A machine-code-assisted filing system lets you add, edit, search, and print multi-field records with configurable print formatting and numeric input validation.

Image Gallery

Note: Type-in program listings on this website use ZMAKEBAS notation for graphics characters.

Tags

Downloadable TS 1000 Collection