MScript (FD68)

Machine language word processor developed exclusively for the Timex 2068 by Micro Systems Software, Inc.

The download also holds a Customized MScript V5.5 for the Oliger disk (“Home Menu MS V5.5O”), Jack Dohany’s customised MScript, from the Print Factory GRAPHICS3 disk. It adds drive keys 0 to 3, disk FORMAT, ERASE and catalog commands, and a choice of AERCO, Tasman, A&J or TS2040 printer interface. It is not converted for tape: it needs a TS2068 with the Oliger (JLO SAFE) disk system. The folder holds the MS5.5 BASIC and machine code as a TAP, with MScript’s text buffer cleared (it still held a document when the disk copy was saved), and a README. A JLO state save of the same program on the disk is not included.

The CMS V5 reference folder holds Jack Dohany’s full documentation for Customized MScript Version 5 (March 1986), converted to plain text from the MScript textfiles INTRO, ANN, BILL and CARL on one of Don Lambert’s Oliger disks. INTRO is the introduction sheet (see Introduction to Customized MScript version 5). ANN, BILL and CARL are Dohany’s alphabetical reference, from ADD TEXT to VIEW MEMORY, giving the BASIC line and memory locations behind each command and option of all four varieties (cassette, A&J wafer, AERCO and Zebra disk). MScript’s formatting lines were dropped, and Dohany’s street address and phone number were left out.

Customized MScript 5L5 (Larken)

The download now also has the Larken version of Customized MScript, “Version 5L5” (12 April 1989), from the TTSUC Larken library disk L-51, in its own folder. Bob Mitchell adapted Jack Dohany’s Customized MScript 5.5 for the Larken disk system; the folder has his build ms5l5 with its help screens, his own variant ms5l5m, his adaptation of Dohany’s introduction, and the three-part reference manual (annie, billie and carla) as text. It needs the Larken interface and is not converted.

Customized MScript V5Z (Zebra disk edition)

The download now also has the Zebra disk edition of Customized MScript, from the Zebra Bonus Disk, in the folder “Customized MScript V5Z Zebra edition”. ms5z (REM “MS5Z”, screen “MSCRIPT V5Z © MICRO SYSTEMS”) and ms5z.cod (35439, 9,500 bytes) use the TOS disk commands of the Zebra/Timex FDD drives (CAT *, LOAD *, SAVE *, ERASE *, FORMAT *). It is a different build from the MS5D file above. The disk’s INTRO, ANN, BILL and CARL documents are the CMS V5 reference already in this download. It is not converted for tape and has not been tested; it needs the FDD drive, or FUSE with the FDD3000 interface (fdd3000e).