Timex Sinclair Public Domain Library Tape 1007

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

Tape 1007 of the Timex Sinclair Public Domain Library. Assembled by Tim Ward from many sources. Contains programs 10294–10335: 21 on side A and 21 on side B. The tape has card, board and arcade games, two adventures, drawing and graphics programs, a Form 1040 tax assistant, and printer and text utilities.

Programs on the Tape

Side A

  • 10294 Draughts: checkers against the computer (16K) (also #56780)
  • 10295 Random Sentences: random nonsense sentences (also #56782)
  • 10296 Fur Trader: fur-trading expedition game (also #56804)
  • 10297 Hothouse Plot: plots a polar rose curve (also #56805)
  • 10298 Side Scrolling Banner: scrolling banner message in machine code (also #56808)
  • 10299 Line Renumber Subroutine: BASIC subroutine that renumbers program lines (also #56809 Line Renumber Routine)
  • 10300 Jackpot Payoff: slot machine drawn in block graphics (also #56810)
  • 10301 Blackjack: Blackjack with betting, insurance, doubling and splitting (also #56811)
  • 10302 Slalom Course: slalom skiing (also #56812)
  • 10303 Sketch: drawing program (also #56813)
  • 10304 Random Plot: draws 25 random lines (also #56814)
  • 10305 1040 Form: US Form 1040 and Schedule A tax assistant with tape storage (also #56815)
  • 10306 Quilter: draws points and repeating patterns (also #56817)
  • 10307 Horse Race: five-horse race (also #56818)
  • 10308 5 Card Showdown Poker: deals a five-card poker hand (also #56819)
  • 10309 Edge: symmetry of a random four-node graph (also #56820)
  • 10310 Ski: catch falling objects (also #56821)
  • 10311 Scrambled Words: two-player unscramble-the-word game (also #56822)
  • 10312 City Bomb: bomb a city before the bomb lands (also #56823)
  • 10313 Cosmos Landing: land the starship Astron (also #56824)
  • 10314 Poker Game: draw poker against the computer (also #56825)

Side B

  • 10315 Bowling: ten-pin bowling scores (also #56826)
  • 10316 Star Trek: Star Trek strategy game on a 10 × 10 grid (also #56848)
  • 10317 Chase: escape a pursuing point (also #56849)
  • 10318 Clock: analogue clock (also #56850)
  • 10319 ZX Man: move around a walled grid (also #56851)
  • 10320 Curse of the Aztec Tomb: explore an Aztec tomb (text adventure) (also #56852)
  • 10321 Block Art: random rectangle in block characters (also #56853)
  • 10322 Random Boxes: random boxes drawn by machine code (also #56854)
  • 10323 Bat-and-Ball: bat-and-ball game (also #56855)
  • 10324 Micro Mouse: a cursor wanders to a goal through random obstacles (also #56856)
  • 10325 Slot Machine: three-reel fruit machine (also #56857)
  • 10326 Psychology Test: joke psychology test (also #56858)
  • 10327 Birds Flying South: birds flying across the screen (also #56859)
  • 10328 Asteroid Field: hit asteroids with a moving cursor row (also #56860)
  • 10329 Name and Address Program: index of projects and magazine references (also #56861 Magazine Index)
  • 10330 Checkers: checkers (also #56862)
  • 10331 Earthquake: escape a collapsing pyramid (also #56863)
  • 10332 Lprint: prints text with a custom character set through machine code (also #56864)
  • 10333 Battle Ship: Battleships against the computer (also #56865)
  • 10334 Big Message: prints text in large letters from the character ROM (also #56866)
  • 10335 Gold Rush: collect the gold on each sheet against a shrinking time bar, with three lives and faster sheets as you go

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 1007.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

1040 Form

Program

A two-form income tax calculator with 107 individually labelled line entries, menu-driven navigation, and tape-based data storage — all in BASIC.

5 Card Showdown Poker

Program

Deal five cards from a virtual 52-card deck and keep drawing from the same deck or reset it — a compact BASIC card engine worth examining closely.

Asteroid Field

Program

This radar game uses direct display-file manipulation and INKEY$ steering to hunt randomly scattered asteroids across 10 passes — can you beat your high score?

Bat-and-Ball

Program

A minimalist bat-and-ball game where a bouncing block and a player-controlled paddle face off using nothing but BASIC and inverse-video characters.

Battle Ship

Program

A fully playable Battleships game with a computer opponent that uses multi-stage directional search logic to hunt down your fleet after scoring a hit.

Big Message

Program

Enter any message and watch it explode into huge block letters, drawn pixel-by-pixel straight from the character ROM font data.

Birds Flying South

Program

A flock of migrating birds is scattered randomly across the screen before a scrolling club credit loops endlessly — all in just 100 lines of BASIC.

Blackjack

Program

A full Blackjack game with betting, insurance, splits, doubles, and a built-in card-counting tool that calculates the live tens ratio from the remaining deck.

Block Art

Program

A self-contained rectangle generator that picks random dimensions, fills the interior with a character derived from its own height, and redraws on every keypress.

Bowling

Program

A randomised ten-pin bowling simulator that tracks frame scores, detects strikes, and keeps a running high score across multiple games — all in under 50 lines of BASIC.

Chase

Program

A minimalist chase game where you dodge a relentless pursuer across a plotted screen — survive 499 moves or face GAME OVER.

Checkers

Program

A draughts game that stores its entire board state directly in display memory, using PEEK and POKE to move pieces and hunt for captures automatically.

City Bomb

Program

Drop bombs on a randomly generated city skyline before you crash — collision detection done the hard way, by reading directly from display memory.

Clock

Program

A fully animated analogue clock that draws hour markers trigonometrically and moves its hands using a hand-coded Bresenham line algorithm — all in BASIC.

Cosmos Landing

Program

Guide radio-controlled drones onto a moving landing platform across ten attempts, with three difficulty speeds and a pilot-rating system to judge your performance.

Curse of the Aztec Tomb

Program

Dodge boulders, survive a collapsing drawbridge, and outwit a lowering ceiling trap in this action-adventure game set inside a cursed Aztec pyramid.

Draughts

Program

A complete checkers game with capture logic, king promotion, and a computer opponent that tries to avoid leaving its pieces vulnerable — all in BASIC.

Earthquake

Program

Escape a collapsing pyramid before time runs out or falling blocks seal you in — a tense survival game with a subtle bug hiding in its trap-detection logic.

Edge

Program

A curious graph-theory experiment generates random binary state sequences and classifies their edges by symmetry — with surprisingly deep combinatorial logic packed into a handful of BASIC lines.

Fur Trader

Program

Manage hunger, rest, and a pack-horse fortune in this fur-trading survival game where bandits, bed bugs, and starvation all threaten your wealth.

Horse Race

Program

A pixel-based horse race simulation picks a random winner from five horses, each crawling across the screen one dot at a time — place your bets!

Hothouse Plot

Program

A mesmerising polar rose with 456 petals is pre-calculated into arrays and continuously redrawn — see how parametric maths produces intricate floral geometry.

Jackpot Payoff

Program

Drop a coin, pull the handle, and watch the reels spin in this BASIC slot machine with seven symbol types, cascading payouts up to $200, and animated win effects.

Line Renumber Routine

Program

A pure-BASIC line renumbering subroutine that directly manipulates memory headers to reassign line numbers across any range of your program — no machine code needed.

Lprint

Program

A machine code printer driver copies a custom character set into RAM and patches it live before sending your typed text to the line printer.

Magazine Index

Program

A five-record magazine project database with menu-driven entry, search, field-level editing, and tape save — all in BASIC with clever computed GOTO dispatch.

Micro Mouse

Program

A randomly built maze and a roaming cursor that sniffs out blank cells by peeking directly at display RAM — watch it hunt for the exit and count every step.

Poker Game

Program

A complete five-card draw poker game with computer AI betting, bluffing, card replacement, and full hand evaluation from nothing up to royal flush.

Psychology Test

Program

A tongue-in-cheek personality test displays five abstract ASCII designs and delivers a blunt psychological analysis based on how you interpret each one.

Quilter

Program

Navigate a cursor with diagonal and cardinal keys to stamp repeating dot-grid patterns or erase them — a surprisingly capable lo-res drawing tool in under 40 lines of BASIC.

Random Boxes

Program

Machine language program that prints random sized boxes with random character fills.

Random Plot

Program

A pure-BASIC implementation of Bresenham's line algorithm draws 25 random lines across the screen — no machine code required, all eight octants handled correctly.

Random Sentences

Program

A quirky random sentence generator picks subjects, verbs, objects, and predicates from comma-delimited lists to produce an endless stream of absurd sentences.

Scrambled Words

Program

A two-player anagram game with a live countdown timer where speed matters — the faster you unscramble a five-letter word, the more points you earn.

Side Scrolling Banner

Program

Enter any message and watch it scroll endlessly across the screen, driven by a compact Z80 machine code routine hidden inside a REM statement.

Sketch

Program

A keyboard-driven pixel sketching tool that lets you plot and move a cursor around the screen, lift the pen, and save your artwork — all with single-key presses.

Ski

Program

A minimalist falling-object game uses direct display-file PEEKs for collision detection — move left and right to catch (or dodge) descending targets across 50 rounds.

Slalom Course

Program

Navigate a lone pixel through a hand-crafted slalom course using just two keys — but can you thread every gate before the finish line?

Slot Machine

Program

A three-reel fruit machine with lemons, oranges, plums, bells, and cherries — spin it and watch your coin balance rise or fall with every play.

Star Trek

Program

A grid-based space combat game with scanning, movement, and firing commands — can you hunt down alien ships before your energy banks run dry?

ZXMAN

Program

Guide your character around a walled grid, dodge a random ghost, and survive until time runs out — all driven by clever character-code arithmetic.

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

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