Timex Sinclair Public Domain Library Tape 1006

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

Tape 1006 of the Timex Sinclair Public Domain Library. Assembled by Tim Ward from many sources. Contains programs 10252–10293: 23 on side A and 19 on side B. Most of the tape is games: maze, landing, puzzle, dice, board and arcade games, plus a text adventure. It also has a mini database, trigonometry and number-base tools, a weather reference and a demo for the Chicago Sinclair Special Interest Group.

Programs on the Tape

Side A

  • 10252 Muncher II: Pac-Man-style maze game by James S. Broaddus (also #57497)
  • 10253 Mini Data Base: mini database held in one string (also #57498)
  • 10254 Yachtzee: Yahtzee for one to four players (also #57499)
  • 10255 Runway: land an aircraft on a runway (also #57500)
  • 10256 Crash: catch a falling ball in one of three lanes (also #57501)
  • 10257 Trigonometry: right-triangle trigonometry calculator (also #57502)
  • 10258 Space Docking: dock with a fuel satellite (also #57503)
  • 10259 Fox at Dusk: two-player board game on an 8 × 8 board (also #57504)
  • 10260 Defender: dodge incoming waves (also #57505)
  • 10261 Towers of Hanoi: Towers of Hanoi with a computer solver (also #57506)
  • 10262 Falling Blocks: catch falling blocks (also #57507)
  • 10263 Invader: falling-object game on a starfield (also #57508)
  • 10264 Super Monzxer: Wumpus-style cave exploration (also #57509)
  • 10265 Fifteen Puzzle: sliding fifteen puzzle (also #57510)
  • 10266 Anti-Aircraft Gunner: shoot at a moving target (also #57511)
  • 10267 Scrolling Bulletin: scrolling news-ticker message (also #57512)
  • 10268 Spinner: rotate groups of tiles into order (also #57513)
  • 10269 Zombies: escape zombies in an arena (also #57514)
  • 10270 Meteor Shower: dodge a meteor shower (also #57515)
  • 10271 Roller Ball: ten-round ball-rolling game (also #57516)
  • 10272 Target Practice: shoot at a scrolling target (also #57517)
  • 10273 Lander: lunar landing game (also #57518)
  • 10274 Space Boy: keep a bouncing figure in flight (also #57519)

Side B

  • 10275 Star Lander: lunar landing simulation (also #57520)
  • 10276 Geiger Counter: find hidden plutonium on a 10 × 10 grid (also #57521)
  • 10277 Tic Tac Toe: two-player noughts and crosses (also #57522)
  • 10278 Slot Machine: slot machine (also #57523)
  • 10279 Weather Forecast: weather forecasting, wind chill and humidity tables (also #57524)
  • 10280 Plot: drawing program with the cursor keys (also #57525)
  • 10281 Cricket: two-team cricket game (also #57526)
  • 10282 Mystery: six-card number-guessing trick (also #57527)
  • 10283 Hex Dec Bin: converts between decimal, hex and binary (also #57528)
  • 10284 Gladiators: two-player gladiator fight (also #57529)
  • 10285 Adventure 2 Phoenix Tower: text adventure in a 15-floor tower (Murky Adventure 2) (also #57530)
  • 10286 Sinclair Special Interest Group: demo for the Chicago Sinclair Special Interest Group (also #57531)
  • 10287 Cave: lead a party through nine caves (also #57532)
  • 10288 Tilt Board: steer across a field of obstacles (also #57533)
  • 10289 Laser 5: space shooter in machine code (also #57534)
  • 10290 Skeletons: escape four skeletons in a random room (also #57535)
  • 10291 Treasure Chase: keep the treasure away from a hound (also #57536)
  • 10292 Dice Game: bet on three dice (also #57537)
  • 10293 Another Dice Game: bet on two dice: under, equal to or over 7 (also #57538)

The download has a TZX file, a plain-text listing (.b81) and screenshots for each program, in tape order by side, with the tape’s contents list (TS PDL 1006.txt) and photos of the cassette and its label. Program names follow that list; where it says “Unknown”, the name of the program’s own page is used.

Content

Adventure 2 Phoenix Tower

Program

Navigate all 15 floors of a procedurally populated dark tower, battling monsters and collecting items — powered by hand-assembled Z80 machine code POKEd at startup.

Another Dice Game

Program

A two-dice under/over-7 casino game where a $50 stake and bets of $1–$6 test your luck against even money odds and a tempting 4-to-1 jackpot.

Anti-Aircraft Gunner

Program

Shoot a sliding target in this gallery game that uses block graphics, random speed changes, and a 20-shot limit to test your reflexes.

Cave

Program

Hire two companions, brave nine treacherous caves, and fight ghosts, trolls, and wolves in this complete BASIC text-adventure with block-graphic cave maps.

Crash

Program

Guide a falling pixel left and right with Z and M to knock it into one of three targets, deflect it back, and rack up points before your lives run out.

Cricket

Program

A two-innings text cricket game with difficulty-controlled ball animation, off-side and on-side batting, and fielding outcomes including caught, dropped, and bowled.

Defender

Program

A wave-dodging arcade game using block-graphic scrolling, a GOSUB scoring trick, and reverse-loop wave progression — all in under 30 lines of BASIC.

Dice Game

Program

A three-dice betting game where you wager your $30 stake, pick a number, and watch each die reveal itself with UDG graphics and inverse-video flair.

Falling Blocks

Program

A fast-paced catching game built entirely with POKE and PEEK into the display file — no sprites, just raw memory manipulation and a ticking countdown.

Fifteen Puzzle

Program

Slide the tiles into order in this complete Fifteen Puzzle implementation, complete with a mathematical solvability check to ensure every random board can actually be solved.

Fox at Dusk

Program

A hidden-fox strategy game where hounds must trap an elusive computer-controlled fox that can leap over pieces and disappear into the dusk.

Geiger Counter

Program

Navigate a 10×10 grid hunting hidden plutonium using a Geiger counter proximity formula — can you find it in the fewest moves?

Gladiators

Program

Two block-graphic gladiators clash in this two-player ZX81 combat game with sprite animation, random hit detection, and death sequences — all in BASIC.

Hex Dec Bin

Program

A 16-bit number base converter that handles hex, decimal, and spaced binary input with subroutines, string arrays, and printer support.

Invader

Program

This game uses a scrolling scene where the player attempts to shoot objects in space.

Lander

Program

Guide a descending spacecraft to a safe touchdown by juggling thrust and burn duration before fuel runs out or you crater the surface.

Laser 5

Program

A complete machine-code space shooter hidden inside REM statements, with a block-graphics title screen and RAND USR launch — all in under 300 lines of BASIC.

Meteor Shower

Program

A one-button dodge game using PEEK-based collision detection and machine code initialization — can you survive the falling asterisk?

Mini Data Base

Program

A complete five-function flat-file database packed into a single string variable, using ASCII delimiters and keyword search with optional printer output.

Muncher II

Program

A Pac-Man clone that stores its entire maze in a string array and uses character-cell indexing for all collision detection.

Mystery

Program

A binary number-guessing trick that uses six cards and a cleverly shared FOR-loop subroutine to deduce any number from 1 to 63.

Plot

Program

A pixel-art drawing tool with orthogonal and diagonal cursor movement, plot/unplot toggle, and trig-based circle drawing using 32-step parametric equations.

Roller Ball

Program

Pick a number from 1 to 100, then watch your ball drift unpredictably across the screen — but can you crack the scoring zones over ten rolls?

Runway

Program

A runway landing game with embedded machine code scrolling, live display-file collision detection, and a two-phase keyboard control system to bring your aircraft safely home.

Scrolling Bulletin

Program

A three-phase scrolling news ticker crawls any message across a single screen row — and even documents its own string length requirements in the demo text.

Sinclair Special Interest Group

Program

A machine-code-heavy ZX81/TS1000 club demo that scrolls inverse-video ticker text, plays display effects, and draws block-graphic logos for a Chicago Sinclair SIG.

Skeletons

Program

A skeleton-chase maze game that moves sprites by POKEing directly into the display file, with enemies that track the player using pure BASIC arithmetic.

Slot Machine

Program

Spin three graphical reels, bet up to $5, and try to hit the jackpot in this block-graphic slot machine with animated win celebrations.

Space Boy

Program

Guide a bouncing astronaut across a randomly drifting platform to clear an elliptically drawn field of objects before your five lives run out.

Space Docking

Program

Guide your inverse-video spaceship upward to dock with a randomly placed fuel satellite, earning points each time — but your fuel supply is counting down.

Spinner

Program

A 4×4 inverse-video tile puzzle, where 16 keyboard keys each rotate a different group of four tiles around the grid — can you solve it?

Star Lander

Program

Guide a lunar lander to a safe touchdown by balancing thrust, fuel, and velocity in this inverse-video ZX81 lander game with a blinking prompt.

Super Monzxer

Program

A fully playable Wumpus-style cave hunt across five dungeon levels, complete with a pixel-art monster intro screen and procedurally generated room networks.

Target Practice

Program

A scrolling-target shooting gallery with three enemy types, a persistent high score, machine-code initialisation, and keys 5, 8, and B to play.

Tic Tac Toe

Program

A compact Tic-Tac-Toe game that drives all board logic through encoded lookup strings — no arrays, no IF chains, just clever string indexing.

Tilt Board

Program

A fast-moving dodgem game that reads the display file directly for collision detection — can you weave through randomly generated barriers without losing your score?

Towers of Hanoi

Program

A full Towers of Hanoi game with pixel-drawn discs, move validation, and a built-in computer solver that uses different peg-cycling strategies for odd and even disc counts.

Treasure Chase

Program

A procedurally generated maze-chase game where you collect coins while a relentless pursuer closes in one step at a time — can you beat your high score?

Trigonometry

Program

A menu-driven right-triangle solver covering all nine sine, cosine, and tangent formulae, with inverse trig functions and degree/radian conversion built in.

Weather Forecast

Program

A four-section weather reference tool that deduces tomorrow's forecast from wind direction and barometer readings using an elaborate chain of Boolean conditions.

Yachtzee

Program

A full multiplayer Yahtzee implementation with up to four players, three-throw turns, and a 12-category scorecard packed into a single layout string.

Zombies

Program

A zombie-chase game where up to 21 enemies hunt you across a bordered arena, with collision detection done by reading characters directly from the display file.

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

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