CATS Library Tape 1

Date: 1988
Type: Cassette
Platform(s): TS 2068

A 21-program collection from the Capital Area Timex Sinclair User Group featuring games, utilities, and a cartridge. Developed by George Mockridge and Mark Fisher.

Content

Blackjack

Program

A fully featured Blackjack game deals graphical playing cards from a shuffled 52-card deck, with aces, blackjacks, five-card tricks, and variable betting all handled correctly.

Brick-Yard Bill

Program

Guide Bill through a brick-filled yard using cursor keys — but if every neighboring cell gets blocked, the game's over and your percentage score is tallied.

Bridge Builder

Program

Drop bridge sections with split-second timing, survive near misses with a rescue helicopter, and fight for a spot on the scrolling high-score table in this action game.

Cribbage

Program

A fully playable Cribbage game with a computer AI opponent, complete with pegging, hand counting, a crib board display, and an optional muggins rule.

Death Race

Program

A timed car-chase game with custom UDG sprites, SCREEN$-based collision detection, and a randomly wandering enemy that you must hunt down before the clock runs out.

Demolition

Program

A configurable-speed Breakout clone uses SCREEN$ collision detection and custom UDG sprites to smash colored brick rows with a bouncing ball.

Egg Savior

Program

Guide your character through laser-cannon fire to rescue eggs one by one, depositing each safely before lives run out in this joystick-driven arcade game.

Hell's Angels

Program

Your unenviable task to once again defend the Earth from the alien hordes - this time in the shape of angels from Hell and then by a number of demons.

HIDDENWORD

Program

This BASIC puzzle generator hides your chosen words in a grid across eight directions, fills blank cells with random letters, and sends the result to screen or printer.

HUNCHY

Program

Guide a hunchback hero across castle ramparts through five unique screens, dodging snipers and swinging on ropes to rescue Esmeralda in this joystick-driven action game.

Keno

Program

Pick 10 numbers from a field of 81 in this casino-style Keno game, where matching all 10 pays out at one-million-to-one odds.

MINOTAUR

Program

Navigate a first-person 3D maze, collect three hidden weapons, and survive a wandering enemy in this text-and-graphics dungeon crawler.

Moon Lander

Program

Guide a lunar lander to a safe touchdown using thrust and rotation controls, with machine code sprites and collision detection driving the action.

Poker

Program

A fully playable five-card draw poker game pits you against a bluffing computer dealer, complete with betting, drawing, hand evaluation, and a watch-pawning emergency fund.

QBert

Cartridge

Guide your hero diagonally across a hazardous board, collecting eggs and dodging two enemies, in this faithful arcade conversion with joystick support and a high-score table.

Space War

Program

A two-player space duel with proximity-fused missiles, joystick control, and clever state-packing inside a string array — all in BASIC.

Star Trek

Program

A fully playable Star Trek game with custom sprite graphics, synthesized sound effects, procedural galaxy generation, and a mid-game save feature awaits your command.

Tag

Program

Can you catch a randomly wandering target using just four keys before it slips away again in this quick block-graphics chase game?

Tic Tac Toe

Program

A two-player Tic-Tac-Toe game with a pixel-drawn board, graphical X and O markers, running score tracking, and a final session winner summary.

Train

Program

Guide trains across a scrolling track, using collision detection and sound effects, before the next locomotive arrives — can you beat your score?

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

Tags

Archived Media Capital Area Timex Sinclair Users Group Downloadable TS 2068 Collection