Fort Worth TS2068 Club Library Tape

A massive compilation of programs from members of the Timex/Sinclair Users Group of Fort Worth, including contributions from Robert Burton, David Baulch, Frank Bouldin, Chuck Dawson, Ryan Gray, and Ben Jackson.

The tape holds 38 files, 28 on side A and 10 on side B; several files contain more than one program. Most were written by club members, and their REM lines carry the authors’ names and dates from 1983 to 1985. Ben H. Jackson contributed programs for maths, science and record keeping, Frank Bouldin (W5GAA) music, graphics and amateur radio programs, Ryan Gray a banner printer, a UDG editor and a pie chart program, and Chuck Dawson a flight planner and a code relocator. The rest are short teaching programs about the hardware (beeper, keyboard, sound chip, screen layout, tape headers, binary), games and the club’s own mailing list program.

Side A

  • BANNER: prints large banner lettering on a printer, built from the ROM character set, with adjustable width and height (REM: Ryan Gray, 11/22/84) (also #60842 Banner)
  • beep: installs a 43-byte machine code routine above RAMTOP that sounds the beeper (also #60844 Beep)
  • binary: shows any number from 0 to 255 as eight coloured bit columns, with a demonstration mode (also #54564 Binary)
  • BOLD: a subroutine to add to your own programs that switches printing to a bold character set (REM: F. Bouldin and Ben Jackson, 7-12-85) (also #56281 “BOLD” Character Subroutine)
  • bounce: a point bouncing around the screen with a beep at each wall, for a chosen number of bounces (also #56282 Bounce)
  • breakout: a demolition game, dropping a ball onto rows of coloured blocks (also #56283 Breakout)
  • CALENDAR: prints a month’s calendar for any month from 1752 on (also #56284 Calendar)
  • calig: displays a large calligraphic alphabet, drawn by a 6,361-byte code block olde at 54000 (REM: Ben H. Jackson, 1/31/85) (also #60848 Calligraphy Font)
  • clipart: a menu of ten line drawings (flower, bee, cake, church, valentine and others) that can be layered on one screen (also #56289 Clip Art)
  • code mover: relocates a block of machine code and patches its absolute addresses (REM: Chuck Dawson, 1985) (also #60850 Code Mover)
  • datab: a seven-field family database of up to 250 records, with two machine code modules, findv and create (REM: Ben H. Jackson, 6/28/85) (also #60855 Database)
  • digitclock: a digital clock that counts on from a time you enter and chimes the quarter hours (also #56290 Clock)
  • disassymbl: a Z80 disassembler in BASIC that prints to the screen and the printer (REM: Ben H. Jackson, 1985) (also #64536 Disassymbl)
  • FORTH: Robert Burton’s fig-FORTH, a BASIC loader followed by an 8,500-byte code block at 31744 and a 10,240-byte RAM block (also #56327 figForth v1.0)
  • FUDGE: the Friendly User Defined Graphics Editor, a joystick-driven UDG editor with pull-down menus (REM: Ryan Gray, 8/24/84) (also #64542 FUDGE)
  • header: reads a tape header with a short machine code routine and shows the file’s type, name, length and start address (also #56296 Header)
  • hydrology1 and hydrology2: a hydrology toolkit in two programs; the first covers slope, watershed map drawing and unit hydrographs, the second rainfall, flood hydrographs and rates (also #56297 Hydrology)
  • julian: converts between calendar dates and Julian Day Numbers, based on a TI-59 program by Charles Kluepfel (REM: Ben H. Jackson, 1984) (also #64544 Julian Day)
  • keyboard: a 25-byte machine code routine that reports which of two keys are held down (also #56301 KeyScan)
  • mail list: a mailing list manager for a user group, with label printing and a 1,111-byte printer routine pr (also #64540 Mail List)
  • MENUGRADE: a teacher’s menu-driven grade averaging program for a six-week grading period (REM: Joan Kealy, 1985) (also #64548 Menu-Driven Grade Averaging)
  • MONITOR: a machine code monitor to examine, enter, save and run code, in decimal or hex (also #56303 Machine Code Monitor)
  • PIE CHART: draws a labelled pie chart, with slices that can be pulled out, using TASWIDE for 64-column text (REM: Ryan Gray, 9/30/84) (also #64557 Pie Chart)
  • planner: a flight planner that works out courses, wind correction, ground speed and fuel for each leg over a map of the USA (REM: Chuck Dawson, 1985) (also #64538 Flight Planner)
  • psg: shows and edits the 15 registers of the AY sound chip in binary and decimal (also #56311 PSG Register)
  • screen: fills the display and attribute memory with values you choose, to show how the screen is laid out (also #56315 Screen Layout Examination)
  • temp-dec: charts Fort Worth’s December temperatures, with averages, records and a chosen year’s daily highs and lows (REM: Ben H. Jackson, 1984) (also #64534 Fort Worth Temp for December)
  • utility: checks electric, gas, water and telephone bills against rate tables kept in DATA (also #64561 Utility Bill Audit)

Side B

  • 2068art: two bouncing points trace changing line patterns; F. Bouldin’s adaptation of a program by David Kulp from SyncWare News (also #55026 2068 Art)
  • CALENDAR: a perpetual Gregorian calendar from November 1582 to December 9999, adapted by F. Bouldin from a program by I. Auersbacher in the April 1985 Vancouver Sinclair Users Group newsletter (no separate page)
  • coll: one 36,837-byte program holding a menu of small games picked by initial letter, among them Shift It, Zebra, 31, Jumble, Pegboard, Mancala, Nine Men’s Morris, the L game, Fallout and Abba (also #60852 Game Collection)
  • DIGICLOK 2: a precision clock in large block digits, timed by BASIC loops (REM: Frank Bouldin, 10/23/85) (also #60857 DigiClock 2)
  • DISA Z: a Z80 disassembler in BASIC that prints to the printer (REM: “COPYRIGHT 1983 KINGSLEY”) (also #57134 DISA-Z Disassembler)
  • muzik: Muzik Master, a two-octave on-screen keyboard played from the computer keys, with a demonstration tune (REM: Frank Bouldin, W5GAA, 11-25-83) (also #64551 Muzik Master)
  • oscar-ten: tracks the OSCAR 10 amateur radio satellite, with world maps, azimuth and elevation, and Doppler shift (also #64553 OSCAR-TEN)
  • poly, poly 1, poly and N-POLYGONS: Frank Bouldin’s polygon drawings (9-sided and 15-sided versions from June 1984) and N-POLYGONS, which joins every pair of corners of a regular polygon with 3 to 30 sides (also #56307 NPolygons)
  • SCRAMBLE: lists every arrangement of the letters of a word of three to seven letters (REM: F. Bouldin, 8/7/85) (also #64558 Scramble)
  • simuleqns, integ-w, integ-s and plot: Ben H. Jackson’s 1984 maths programs, solving simultaneous equations with real coefficients, numerical integration by Weddle’s rule and by Simpson’s rule, and PLOT 2040, which graphs a function on the TS2040 printer with machine code (no separate pages)

About the Files

The programs are in folders for side A and side B, as TAP files with a text listing of each. side A/screen.tap is really a TZX file with the wrong extension; it loads in emulators that read TZX, and its contents match the other copies of the screen layout program.

Content

"BOLD" Character Subroutine

Program

A two-author machine code hack from 1985 that rewrites the system font in RAM to produce genuinely bold characters — toggled on or off at runtime with a single POKE.

2068 Art

Program

Two bouncing points trace 200 lines across the screen in an ever-changing geometric art display, then clear and restart with a new pattern.

Banner

Program

This banner generator reads ROM font bitmaps directly, decoding each bit to scale any message into giant printer text with adjustable width and height.

Beep

Program

A self-installing machine code beeper routine that carves its own RAM space, pokes 43 bytes of Z80, and plays a tone on every keypress via USR.

Binary

Program

Watch each bit light up in color as this educational tool converts any decimal number from 0 to 255 into its 8-bit binary representation, with an animated auto-demo mode.

Bounce

Program

Enter a bounce count and watch a pixel ricochet across the full screen, with distinct beeps at each wall — stopping exactly when you say.

Breakout

Program

A Breakout-style demolition game that drops a ball through coloured brick rows, complete with splash damage, a high score, and direct font manipulation for the scoreboard.

Calendar

Program

A calendar generator using Zeller's congruence calculates the correct starting weekday for any month from 1752 onward, with clever PEEK tricks to manage column-based layout.

Calligraphy Font

Program

A complete calligraphic bitmap font renderer that places custom 24×24 and 24×30 pixel letters anywhere on screen using pixel-precise coordinates and machine code.

Clip Art

Program

A ten-image clip-art menu lets you PLOT, DRAW, and CIRCLE flowers, bees, valentines, and more — even layering multiple images on one screen.

Clock

Program

A self-advancing digital clock that chimes every quarter-hour with distinct melodies and renders digits by bit-reading the ROM font with PEEK.

Code Mover

Program

A BASIC tool that relocates Z80 machine code to a new address and automatically patches every internal absolute address so nothing breaks.

Database

Program

A full seven-field contact database for a church department, driven by machine-code modules that patch RESTORE addresses on the fly to navigate records stored in DATA statements.

DigiClock 2

Program

A pure-BASIC precision clock uses nested timing loops, BEEP-based calibration, and indirect GO SUB calls via stored line numbers to display large block-graphic digits.

DISA-Z Disassembler

Program

A full Z80 disassembler in BASIC that decodes every prefix, resolves relative jump targets, and prints annotated mnemonics — with a single flag to switch between two character sets.

Disassymbl

Program

A BASIC-coded Z80 disassembler decodes opcodes from any memory address, handles CB and ED prefixes, and sends formatted mnemonics to both screen and printer.

figForth v1.0

Program

A complete fig-FORTH built specifically for the TS2068 — bank switching, Timex printer, extended memory and all — and released into the public domain.

Flight Planner

Program

A complete flight-planning calculator that plots your route over a hand-drawn map of the USA, computing wind correction, ground speed, and fuel burn for each leg.

Fort Worth Temp for December

Program

A hand-crafted Fort Worth December temperature chart plots record highs, record lows, historical averages, and a chosen year's daily readings — all with PLOT and DRAW.

FUDGE

Program

FUDGE is a complete joystick-driven UDG editor with pull-down menus, pixel grid editing, flip, rotate, shift, animate, and tape save/load for all 21 user-defined graphics.

Game Collection

Program

A seventeen-game collection packed into one BASIC program, with a single-keypress menu that dispatches players to puzzles, strategy games, and word challenges.

Header

Program

A machine code–assisted tool that intercepts and decodes tape header blocks, revealing file type, filename, length, and start address for any loaded tape.

Hydrology

Program

A menu-driven hydrology suite that calculates watershed slopes, draws drainage maps, prepares unit hydrographs, and fits lognormal distributions — all with embedded machine code.

Julian Day

Program

A two-way Julian Day Number converter that handles BC dates, century corrections, and day-of-week calculation via a clever shared subroutine.

KeyScan

Program

A tiny 25-byte machine code routine slots itself just above RAMTOP and returns real-time two-key keyboard state — callable from BASIC with a single USR expression.

Linear Optimization By Simplex Method

Program

A full Simplex Method solver that handles mixed constraints, artificial variables, and Big-M penalties — printing the complete tableau at every iteration until the optimal solution is found.

Machine Code Monitor

Program

A full machine code monitor lets you examine, edit, enter, save, and run memory—complete with hex/decimal toggle and Z80 scroll routines POKEd in at startup.

Mail List

Program

A complete tape-based mailing-list manager for a T/S user group, with member records, label printing, and a machine-code printer patch all bundled together.

Menu-Driven Grade Averaging

Program

A four-mode teacher's grade book that calculates weighted averages across a six-week period and prints formatted report cards directly to a 2040 printer.

Muzik Master

Program

A playable two-octave piano keyboard with flashing key animations, sharp/flat labels, and a built-in melody demo hidden behind a single keypress.

NPolygons

Program

Enter any number from 3 to 30 and watch every vertex pair of a regular polygon get connected, revealing intricate geometric star patterns built from pure BASIC trigonometry.

OSCAR-TEN

Program

A complete OSCAR-10 satellite tracker that plots world maps, calculates Doppler shifts, and displays live azimuth/elevation for 18 cities worldwide.

Pie Chart

Program

A fully interactive pie chart generator that pulls individual slices, labels them with trigonometry, and relies on TASWIDE for wide text output.

PSG Register

Program

An interactive PSG register editor that reads, displays, and writes all 15 sound chip registers live — showing binary and decimal values simultaneously.

Scramble

Program

Type in any 3–7 letter word and this BASIC program systematically generates every possible permutation, with factorial counts and real-time progress on screen.

Screen Layout Examination

Program

Enter any byte value and watch it fill every pixel and every colour cell on screen — a hands-on tool for understanding display memory layout.

Utility Bill Audit

Program

A complete household utility auditor that handles three-tier electric, gas, water, and shared phone bills — all driven by editable DATA statements.

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