Downloadable Software for the ZX81, TS-1000 and TS-1500

A good introduction to chess. Full graphic representation of the chess board is included. Single level of play. Does not accept castling or en-passant moves. Source code was published as a series of articles in Your Computer.
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An interesting little program by Gregory C. Harder. Adapted to ZX81 from an article in Creative Computing. Hardware Requirements You will need a ZX81 (or TS1500) with “64K” RAM (RAM from 16K to 64K). You also have to have 8K of static RAM, mapped 8-16K, for the high-res display file and associated data. The program was
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In this machine code program you find yourself stranded on an alien planet. On this planet you will meet various hazards, including aliens, little green men, some natural – some not. Your aim is to escape this planet by finding your captured and disabled space ship. You really are the commander of your computer. Also
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In this adventure you find yourself in South America in the jungle, near an as-yet-undisturbed Inca temple. Inside this temple you will find lots of treasure, your aim is to get out with as much treasure as you can. Beware, do not let greed be your downfall. Your adventure is complete when you have returned
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While on reconnaissance in space, your ship has been drawn by a graviton beam towards an alien cruiser. Fred, your pet android, informs you that the cruiser is on a humanoid slave mission. Its mission is to seek out humanoid planets from which the inhabitants are taken as slaves and their brains replaced by micro-chips!
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You have to survive an engine failure while flying over an apparently uninhabited island in the South Atlantic. Learn to treat the natives with respect, avoid capture and have the enemy and return with the island secret.
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Find the greatest common denominator, solve the roots of a quadratic equation and linear equations in up to 10 unknowns. 2K.
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Several sorts implemented for the 1000: bubble, float, shell and quick sorts.
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Plug-in replacement ROM for Sinclair Basic. Redefines hardware and transforms it into an assembly language programming unit. ROM appears at 3000h-4000h. Offers: According to Chris Johnson, the developer, โ€œWe had a lot of TS1000 customers for ASZMIC, since it was mentioned in Sol Libes’ column in Byte magazine.โ€œ The name is an abbreviation of โ€Assembler
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Great for beginning players. If one player tries to perform an illegal move, the screen prints out an explanation of why it is illegal. Columns are marked with letters, beginning at A on the upper right. It has four levels and a doubling cube. 16K.
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Learn to write your own computer games. Screen display, keyboard input, moving graphics, loops, editing and other programming techniques. Includes program tape, workbook and blank tape. 2K.
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Catch the egg and put the bat in the cage. Then fight off the other bats trying to rescue the caged bat. 36 levels of play. 2K.
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This is a demonstration of a WRX16 display option. The 8K hi-res display file is divided into two 4K chunks, which are displayed on alternate frames to give a neat overlay effect. The lower six lines are standard low-res.
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Adapted from a similar game Fred Nachbaur had written earlier for the first TRS-80 Pocket Computer. This is a direct application of Greg Harder’s “SRAM Hi-Res Extended BASIC” (aka SHREB) that demonstrates just a few of the cool things you can do with this package. Runs in a standard 16K ZX81 or equivalent, plus 8K
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Adapted from a Spectrum program, it is an interesting game in the “puzzle” genre.
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“Year-at-a-Glance” calculates any given year, showing the whole year on a single screen. Press “M” to give the “month” legends, “D” for day-of-the-week. Move the cursor around the calendar to highlight any date, then press ENTER – you’re shown your appointments or other significant events for that date. Move the cursor to a non-date field,
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Balance your checkbook and gather data for tax purposes. Deposits are loaded by date, amount, and source. Checks are issued by date, amount, payee and classification. A balance is provided after each transaction. Printer and data files are fully supported. 16K.
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All legal moves including castling and en passant. High resolution graphics and 6 levels of play are supported. Special feature lets you set-up the board to study chess strategy. 16K.
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Zaxxon for the ZX81/TS1000. Evil Xon and his forces are on a ridgetop encircling a valley full of his subjects. In this isometric shooter you control a craft moving it up or down, and the aim is to destroy as many of Xon’s armaments as you can to reach Xon himself and bring him to
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Likely Colditz Castle, published in Computers & Video Games magazine, Nov 83. 16K.
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Design and analysis of common-emitter transistor amplifiers. Biasing, stability, frequency response, input/output resistances, power dissipation, and thermal effects taken into account. Prints schematic and Hybrid-Pi equivalent circuit, stores up to five different transistor spec sheets. 16K.
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Design and analysis of common-emitter transistor amplifiers. Biasing, stability, frequency response, input/output resistances, power dissipation, and thermal effects taken into account. Prints schematic and Hybrid-Pi equivalent circuit, stores up to five different transistor spec sheets. 16K.
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Electronic worksheet with an almost unlimited range of applications. 16K.
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Teaches the fundamentals of a computer system, its hardware, software and peripherals. Self-instruction cassette allows you to learn at your own pace. 16K.
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Teaches basic useful words and phrases of German. Over 240 words and 50 phrases available. 16K.
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Track of those coupons showing what they are for, where they are offered, and starting and ending dates. You can list them by store or type and bring the computer age into your household, saving time and effort. 16K.
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Allows identification of critical activities in a project, and scheduling of events for efficiency and economy. Management applications include design and engineering projects, routine in emergency maintenance, product marketing, industrial design, or any project involving many phases. Personal uses include home construction tasks, scheduling activities, or developing long-range projects. Computer does a tabular analysis and
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Solve the cube on your computer. The cube can be displayed in three views: solid: two-dimensional (unfolded); and see-thru cube (3-D). You can start with the cube solved, set it up any way you like, or pick up from a previous session. 16K.
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Article describes implementing a smaller operating system, with CP/M as the starting point, on the Sinclair ZX81/TS 1000.
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Port of DITHERPAINT99 (for the TI99/4A with EXTENDED BASIC) that has been optimized for the Sinclair ZX81/Timex 1000 computers. Changes make use of the unique limitations and features that are part of the ZX81. Developed using a modern text editor, tested on the EightyOne emulator, compiled using MCODER and tested on real hardware.
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The classic fractal dragons program, written by Greg Harder. Runs in 16K, but 32K recommended for larger dragons.
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High resolution, “Dungeons and Dragons” graphic adventure game, Rogue-like. Travel to the ninth level of the Dungeon of Ymir to retrieve the Sword of Kaslo and save your village from certain doom. The dungeon is crawling with 16 types of monsters, 124 in all. Some are easy to vanquish, some are mean. A wide range
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Aid for electronic engineers and students in the field of designing filters. Provides information on bandpass, low-pass, or high-pass filters using a menu-driven approach. Plots of all your design criteria are available. 16K.
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Calculate the energy usage of appliances and electric devices. 16K.
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EPROM demonstrators intended for use in stores as selling tools. EPROM contains a BASIC demonstration program that starts on power up. It includes graphics and interactive examples of what the computer could do. A description of the kiosk retailers could purchase that used this demonstrator is in the Timex Price List 1983. The E. Arthur
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A Bizarre Freeware Program For the 64K ZX/TS with 8K SRAM By Fred Nachbaur INTRODUCTION F-SCAPES is a menu-driven “toy” program for the ZX81. By “toy” I mean that it has no immediate application other than sheer enjoyment. Well, OK; it may have educational potential, and might even form the basis for an actual application.
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Syntax commissioned a custom program, written by David Ornstein, to convert your existing programs for the 2068 or 48K Spectrums. This program translates input bytes from ZX/TS tapes to an equal number of output bytes in your 2068 that you must edit, and then save. Codes & program control structures differ in the two designs,
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Entry for the SyncWare News display program contest.
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Full controls, instrumentation and a view of the horizon. Use the radio beams and radio compass to navigate. Avoid hazards near the landing field. Promotes an understanding of air flight. 16K.
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Various high-res fonts developed by Fred Nachbaur and Greg Harder, including San-serif Bold, Olden, Olden Bold, Machine Bold, Fancy, a general-purpose lower-case-only set, even a proportional character set that looks like the “Sinclair” logo.
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You are commander of a fleet of spaceships. Your mission is to rid the galaxy of the dreaded alien, Zorlac. 16K.
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Input the data points of any waveform (assumed repetitive) and it computes the Fourier transform. Or give it the transform (Fourier co-efficients) and it computes the wave. You can even do two independent waveforms, plotted X vs Y (such as Lissajous figures). Sample run contains such an X-Y plot in the shape of Mickey Mouse;
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5 games: Syncwars, Minotaur, Nim, ContsEntration, and TS Doodle. 2K.
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A progressive series of drill, practice and review sessions. Graded. 80% score promotes the student to the next level. Up to 8 levels. For grades 1 through 8. 16K.
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Dogfight with a fleet of enemy ships. Destroy as many as you can in the limited time. Misprinted as “Atlantic Gunner” in Ramblings n4. 16K.
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An excellent version of the classic space game. Protect your seven lives against fleets of hostile invaders, who swoop down and attack quickly. This version is an excellent demonstration of the capabilities of the ZX81 or TS1000 to entertain and excite for hours. 16K.
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Four games. Kamikaze Fly: A dexterity game in which Freda the Frog tries to eat dinner. Sketchpad: An easy to use screen drawing program. Navajo Rugs: Generates kaleidoscopic patterns randomly. Biorhythm: Plots your mental, physical, and emotional states on any given day. 2K.
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Multi-level graphics adventure that is not limited in its scope. Each level can contain up to 9 rooms, 8 passages, as well as monsters, food, gold, traps, phantoms. 16K.
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Can you find your way through the maze? The exit is there somewhere … but so is a T. REX. Written in machine code, the 3D Monster Maze has been rated among the finest ZX81 and T/S 1000 games available. 16K.
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Find the area of a polygon. Solve the unknown given 3 parts of a triangle. Convert radians to degrees and back. 2K.
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You are chased around a maze by ghosts. If you can eat some magic food you have a chance of stopping the ghosts. This is a superb realization of this exciting game for the ZX81 and TS1000 computer. Written in machine code, with excellent graphics, there is also a personalized โ€˜high-scoreโ€™. 16K.
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You are chased around a maze by ghosts. If you can eat some magic food you have a chance of stopping the ghosts. This is a superb realization of this exciting game for the ZX81 and TS1000 computer. Written in machine code, with excellent graphics, there is also a personalized โ€˜high-scoreโ€™. 16K.
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Store/ retrieve WRX16 graphics screens. “Upload” transfers existing high-res screen into program for saving, “Download” transfers from loaded program into high-res display file for viewing.
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22 machine code routines: draw/undraw, foreground on/off, border/unborder, fill, reverse, etc. 16K.
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Grimm’s Fairy Trails is a Pac-Man takeoff with six speed variations. By pressing the arrow keys, you control the movements of Prince Billy, who is being pursued by two dwellers, Murph and Drago. To finally defeat them, you must move about the maze collecting dots to get 250 B-Lers (life crystals) to make the maze
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Covers the fundamentals of the guitar such as string and finger positions. Ideal for the beginner who wants to learn to play the guitar as well as the advanced student who needs additional practice to improve his or her techniques. 16K.
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Calculates energy costs, lets you evaluate potential savings from adding insulation or completely changing your heating system (i.e., gas to oil). 16K.
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The classic Psion Chess game, with actual chess pieces on an actual board! Fred stretched Wilf’s routine to give 26 display rows… 24 for the board, and 2 for the input lines, so you have to key your moves in blind… not too much of a handicap, if you’ve played the original. To exit, press
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Lowercase on screen, full cursor movement. Prints 64 characters per line sideways on 2040 printer in upper and lower case. Also supports 80 column printers.
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Blackjack program written in SRAM HI-RES Extended BASIC. The game logic was adapted from a similar game Fred had written earlier for the first “TRS-80 Pocket Computer.”
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Program to implement the Mandelbrot Set using SRAM HI-RES Extended BASIC. 16K.
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Z80 disassembler. Includes versions for 16K, 64K RAM.
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Linecheck generates checksums for programs, making it easier to ensure they are typed in correctly.
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Organize and catalog your possessions. Information stored includes item description, serial number, cost, purchase date, store where purchased, and location of item. Items can be recalled by any of these categories. 16K.
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Three part self-paced course in the basics of chemistry. First two programs include lessons, review of key terms, and self tests. The third program supplements the first two with adictionary and a review of 103 elements. 16K.
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Fred Nachbaur’s Christmas present to his customers in 1987. This one’s claim to fame is that it used the SHREB package, but most of the program runs in machine-code, demonstrating that the SHREB package is a useful library of graphics routines as well as a BASIC extension. This program has a bug that’s so charming
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Shoot down the marching aliens with your rapid fire laser cannon before they take over the planet forever. Shields are provided to help protect you from the bombs of the marching aliens. Ten levels of play, from easy to suicidal. 16K.
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The huge mothership hovers above your base raining missiles and bombs down onto you. Blast through its force field and destroy it before you are disintegrated … but donโ€™t hit the reconstruction zones or all the damage you did to the mothership is instantly rebuilt! Fast paced machine code action. 16K.
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Track up to 150 items. Automatic overstock/understock detection, search for an item, delete, add a new item, input a new inventory list. 16K.
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LOAD and SAVE programs up to six times faster. Catalog feature lists programs and memory usage. Package includes 2 programs: Keyboard Monitor and Fast Loader. Both reside at RAMTOP. Fast loader can be used in front of any fast saved tape to enable it to be fast loaded thus there is no need to load
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You are set on a small island kingdom as a ruler of a hungry group of peasants. You must contend with untrustworthy neighbors, crop failures, industrialization, education, pollution, and an occasional tidal wave. 16K.
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This is the Julia set equivalent to “Mandelbrot FFP”.
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Like the real thing. Dice visible at all times, multiple bets possible. 16K.
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Variation of Chinese lottery. Player picks 10 numbers from a set of 81, dealer picks 20. Player wins if he matches 5 or more of the 20.
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Perform numerical computations, much like a hand calculatorโ€” but considerably more powerful and it’s easier to use. It can be used for statistical, scientific, engineering or financial calculations. 2K.
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A journey beneath the Enchanted Forest in search of the missing keys of Gondrun the Wizard. Can you stay alive and discover the keys? Map the caves as you travel through them, but beware of the nasties lurking there! Program features real-time monster fights at 6 skill levels. There are alternative responses to give a
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L-Systems is a type of fractal using rules of generation to produce self-similar space-filling curves. This implementation by Greg Harder is true to the original specification, and it’s recommended that you look up the reference provided in the program. It uses a “QUIK” display mode, a hybrid between FAST and SLOW.
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For grades four through 12. Designed to help improve scores on standardized achievement tests. Records on work done, helps identify troublesome areas. 16K.
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Program that lets you create drawings and enter text on the drawings.
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Per Fred Nachbaur, “Greg Harder was a real master at adapting program listings in magazine into our High-Res BASIC environment. This Life simulation is an example. The zipfile contains both a 16K and a 32K version, the 32K version saves the screen in high memory for improved speed and more options.”
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Adapted by Gregory C. Harder from the Spectrum program by Toni Baker. High resolution version of Conway’s Game of Life. Programmed in SRAM HI*RES Extended BASIC. 16K.
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This is the classic Mandelbrot set fractal. The program is pretty much self-documenting, its claim to fame is the use of the ZX81’s calculator language directly, to give about a 3x speed increase over straight BASIC. However, it’s still pretty slow… be forewarned. MAND4-FP.P is a quadric Mandelbrot in medium-res dithered greyscale (needs 32K)
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Comprehensive manufacturing system that lets you analyze labor and material costs for up to 150 products. Ideal for small businesses manufacturing a number of different lines. You can improve your planning and financial control by closely watching all stages of the job from order to shipment. Monitor cost factors, track work in progress, keeps a
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Your ZX81 becomes the command console as a diver descends to the sunken submarine Nautilus to rescue as many of the stranded crew as possible. Itโ€™s a race against time as your oxygen supply must be replenished. Itโ€™s also a constant battle against marauding sharks which you can attempt to blast with your laser. 16K.
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Create elaborate drawings with over 2,000 different graphics characters and backgrounds. 16K.
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Four opportunities to beat the computer. Tic Tac Toe I and II: Basic and advanced variations of the classic game of strategy. Chocolate Truffles: Makes you plan ahead to “take away” the last luscious truffle. Superspy: Gives you a chance to decode secret messages smuggled out from behind the “silicon” curtain.
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Get fabulously rich if you crack the motherload. The old miner’s last will, will help you on the way, equipped with a pick-axe, flares, spikes, and a lantern. The 9 markers left by the old miner will guide you to the big vein, but watch out for falls that cause the loss of time and
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Maze game: avoid the hungry minotaur.
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Offers three games: a bingo number generator, Robot Wars, and bowling. Robot Wars is a computerized adaptation of Mastermind, the board game classic. The object here is to guess a four-digit number within 10 tries, through the process of elimination. Fail, and your robot is demolished. In bowling, the player presses two keys to control
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Memory Magic, Concentration, Supermind. Memory Magic: Try your skill and improve your memory. Concentration: Remember the locations of characters the computer shows. Supermind: Decipher the sequence of graphical characters. Five-levels of play. 2K.
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Blitz, Rat’s Nest, Snake, Sketch Pad, Cross the Road. Bomb targets (Blitz), trap your opponent (Rat’s Nest) and more. 2K.
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Two programs: Savings, Loans. Savings: Analyze your savings plan, establish goals, and determine how best to attain them. Loans: Figure out loan repayments instantly, for both one-time and monthly repayment schedules. 2K.
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Three programs: depreciation, present worth, and rate of return calculations. Depreciation: A quick program for depreciation by three alternative methods: Straight Line, Sum-Of-The-Years-Digits, and Declining Balance. Present Worth Comparison helps you make buying decisions by comparing the present value of your alternatives. Rate of Return helps you make investment decisions by calculating the rate of
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Manage home expenses.
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Look at the stars in your own personal planetarium with programs that allow you to observe the apparent movement of the stars, planets, and meteor showers. Written in Basic and ready to be entered on your TS 1000.
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Roam around the screen, trying to lure the Murgatroyds into traps. 16K.
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The fiendish Murgatroyds are on the warpath again. You must fight off their attack with mines, superglue, decoys, and more. 16K.
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Excellent starting point for learning the notes of the scale. Shows name and timing of notes with plenty of graphical output. A unique addition to formal training. 16K.
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Arcade game; four waves of invaders. 16K.
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Provides a full-featured football contest for one or two players. Safeties, interceptions, runs, passes, punts, fumbles, and field goals are displayed with machine code graphics. Defensive plays include Blitz, Red Dog, Normal, and Prevent. Includes demo option to continually demonstrate pass and running plays. 16K.
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You peer into the inky black sky from your position as tail gunner in a bomber plane, searching for enemy aircraft. A fighter plane swoops down, you swing your gun into position, line up your sights and fire. Each round gets faster and harder. Features on-screen scoring, high score and ammunition count as well as
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Few who enter ever return. Can you outwit the demons and sorcerers who haunt the dreaded Nightmare Park? Confronted by all sorts of ‘happenings’, you’ll be taken to your wits end. 16K.
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A two-player Nim game for the 2K TS1000. Demonstrates what’s possible in just 2K of RAM, using only standard Sinclair BASIC. Because it uses the characteristics of the compressed display file, if you want to run it in a 16K ZX81 or emulator, you first have to POKE 16389, 72 then NEW before loading.
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Program to print a note at a random spot on the musical scale; user names the note.
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Subset of Pascal for the ZX81/TS 1000. Includes if, then, else, case, of, otherwise, while, do, repeat, until, for, to, downto, begin and end for program control; read, readln, write, writeln, reset, rewrite, eoln, eof, inkey and text for input and output; +, *, div, mod, abs, chr, odd, ord, pred, succ and sqr for
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PCLS 1000 is a handy tool for managing the display file. It allows the user clear all or any portion of the screen with either background, white or black, almost instantly.
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Perform calculations, finance a house, or a car, keep savings accounts, repay loans and calculate an amortization schedule which can be generated for any of the financial programs. 16K.
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High-scoring, fast-paced pinball game includes shooting the ball, bumper action, nudge for those good bounces and flip-action flippers. Free ball is awarded at 10,000 points. High scores “light-up” the scoreboard. 16K.
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Pluri-Forth is both an operating system and a programming language, replacing the Sinclair ROM entirely. FORTH programs were compiled and ran about 10 times faster than interpreter BASIC. Pluri-Forth offered multitasking, a feature not available in Basic. When used with the Sinclair ROM, the channel 2/3 switch is wired to the Pluri-Forth board to select
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Program performs minimum risk and market sensitivity calculations for a portfolio composed from a set of stocks. A portfolio is found which gives the minimum amount of non-market risk for a given level of sensitivity. 16K.
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Calculator, bar graph generator, banner and polynomial equation grapher. 2K.
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Memorize the Presidents of the United States. Two options of review are available: Presidents are presented and you must provide the term(s) or terms are presented and you must provide the president. 16K.
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Utility for the merging and renumbering of Basic programs. Renumbering routine can be used on its own.
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Program to play tunes via the television speaker.
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You are the budding entrepreneur of a lemonade stand, trying to outsell your rivals and lay the foundations of a fast food empire.
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London Bridge calls for nerve, thought and luck. The display is a graphic representation of the bridge, seen from above. The roadway is made up of a random mix of numbers 1 to 5, representing five types of flagstone. You must cross to the other bank but as you would expect, the bridge is falling
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Remarkable graphics effects are the striking feature of Phasor for the 16K TS1000, ZX81. You are an infamous space pirate travelling home through hyperspace after a hard day’s murder and mayhem.
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Poisson’s formula is a method of calculating the possibilities of recurrence of an event, based on a number of occurrences in the past. This program implements the formula.
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Rear Gunner is a program included specifically for the computer novice, to demonstrate the use of graphics mode and the maneuvering of a display under cursor control.
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Ram other runners without running into an obstacle. 26 levels of play. 16K.
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Provides the user with two different investment strategies. The first selection allows the user to choose between renting or buying the real estate. The second selection consists of a detailed analysis of the rental investment property.
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Data acquisition and control module with Centronics printer interface. Supports LPRINT, LLIST and COPY. CMOS real time clock calendar with battery backup. 8 bit parallel I/O ports. CMOS A/D converter. Bus connector for RAM pack.
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Each player has three submarines. Higher scores result in more hostile features, including submarines, warships and helicopters. One or two players.
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Drawing program with many features, brushes and patterns. Uses a 48×64 pixel “window” to the 256×192 image.
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Terminal program supplied with TS 2050 modem. Side A is for the TS1000/TS1500 and Side B is for the TS2068.
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Written in a subset of Sinclair BASIC, then compiled, by a professional comedian named Steve North. He wrote these for his own amusement in 1983, then licensed them to Fred Nachbaur for distribution in 1985. LOAD “SNORTH”; the loader gives you the option to load one of four games: “NFLX Football,” “Miner’s Revenge,” “Super Slide,”
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Four spelling quiz programs for grades 1-12. 16K.
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A cool graphics program adapted from a magazine article by Greg Harder. This one simulates the popular “Spirograph” toy, you define the sizes of the gears and the program does the rest. Includes yet another method of kinda- seeing the display while drawing in FAST mode
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This is the full SHREB package, written by Fred Nachbaur and Greg Harder. Fred wrote the core routines (parser, tape routines, that sort of stuff) and Greg specialized in the cool graphics commands. Contains the latest version of the core only, plus a couple demos.
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Thirty-eight new commands extend graphic capabilities of ZX81/TS 1000 in 4K machine-code routine package. Features include upper/lower case, 64-column mode, user-defined graphics, sprites, plotting commands, windows and faster tape speeds/load. Incorporates Wilf Rigter’s WRX16 routines. Requires 8K RAM in the 8-16K region.
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Inventory up to 600 Scott numbers in a single session showing quantity on hand, by major classification. Program is completely menu-driven and was designed by a well-known stamp column writer. 16K.
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In “Starblasters” you must defend a sector of space from the invading alien spaceships. Your weapon is a powerful ion beam. But beware! The aliens can fire back. They can blow up your ship or even overrun your sector. Although you have five excellent ships in your fleet, you must be quick, skillful, and sometimes
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Play the market, win if you accumulate $50,000. This realistic simulation lets you analyze information, buy and sell stocks, take out and pay off loans and win. 16K.
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Ideal for stock technicians. Plots up and downside trends of stock price movement. The stock analysis and plotted graphs can be used to plot trends as a guide to your buy/sell transactions. Was Nooter Stock Program. 16K.
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Evaluate stock options quickly. Output includes an unexercised ROI, annual ROI, and net worth. 16K.
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Plots prices and volumes for the prior 26 weeks. The 1000 version holds 19 stocks and the 2068 version holds 100 stocks.
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Make an emergency landing at Denver’s Stapleton Airport in your commercial airliner, during a thunderstorm. Three screens of graphics show your progress in avoiding storm clouds. other aircraft, mountains, and downtown Denver, while homing in on navigation beams for a safe descent to the runway and finally taxiing to the terminal. 16K.
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Strategy football is an exciting challenge for all. Features safeties, QB sacks, interceptions, points, field goals, big plays and losses, and kickoff return. Five-offensive and four-defensive plays are offered. 16K.
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Drills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with 5 levels of difficulty. 16K.
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You are in the 1988 Olympics bobsled event. Pick up points while avoiding skid-patches, walls, ruts, and the course boundary. If you pass the qualifying run, you compete in two heats. Your score on both runs places your final position in a field of over 80 competitors. You must be very good to win the
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Navigate your way through a 3D maze with trap doors, gold bars, marker stones and a compass. Ten separate mazes, with up to four options each. 16K.
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Game where the goal is to surround your opponent before they surround you. Uses PEEK to read the keyboard.
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In any other time or galaxy, the dust ball of the world called Tai would have been quite unimportant. Time changes and the entire civilization will be betrayed. You have been chosen to defend Tai. The galactic future depends on you. 16K.
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Full 78-card Tarot deck, graphic representation of the 22 major arcana cards. Computer reads and explains each card of your fortune. 16K.
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Tracks actual vs. budgeted expenditures and computes the difference. Up to 18 categories of expenses can be recorded for a full year’s budget. Bar graph shows how well you’re doing. Printer capability and geographical analysis make this program an asset to your household. 16K.
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Track of car usage by driver, destination, and date. Rider data can be input and time of departure logged. Checking is done to ensure drivers are not in conflict with themselves (going two places at once). 16K.
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In Amazer, enter the maze from the top and work your way down to the bottom without being captured by one of the robots. 10 levels of player ability. In Tic-Tac-Toe, match your skill with the computer. Mislisted as “Challenger II” in the special order form in Ramblings n4. 2K.
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Combination blackjack and slot machine game. In blackjack, cards are dealt on a table. The hole card is concealed while the others are clearly displayed. Blackjack shuffles the cards at the beginning of the game, and again when there are only a few cards left. Your winnings, or losses, are displayed on the screen. In
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A home inventory program that can be invaluable in case of fire or theft. Records date of purchase, place of purchase, description, price, serial number and model number. Optionally yields total value of all assets. 16K.
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Calculate the materials and cost of various home improvement projects at the touch of a few keys. Separate options let you plan the painting of a room or the entire outside of the house. Save the interior and exterior dimensions of your house on cassette and use them when you are faced with future home
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Determine the net effect of your IRA planning. Periodic contributions, inflation adjustments, interest earned and a host of other variables are established and your retirement amount is calculated in both inflationary and current dollars. 16K.
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Mailing List and Phone Book. Mailing List tracks personal or business mailing lists of up to 115 names by name, address and zip code. Phone Book tracks personal or business numbers for up to 180 names. 16K.
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Compare the cost of loans from different banks. 16K.
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Timex repackage of VU-FILE.
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Inversion takes a minimum of 250 moves to solve. Double Inversion is twice as difficult. 16K.
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Life, Maths and Averages. 2K.
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A stimulating and intriguing adventure game. You’ll marvel at the many hidden dangers, concealed aids, and possible timely escapes. 16K. Zip file containing the program files and hints from George Green on how to solve the game.
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15-tile game for the ZX81. Instead of numbered tiles, it uses letters. Press the letter to move any tile toward the blank space; you can push multiple tiles at once. The program goes into FAST mode briefly while it calculates the tile move, so don’t panic if the screen flashes.
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A high speed arcade-type game in which you can test your reflexes and see how many bouncing balls you can catch in the trap. The more you catch the harder it is to catch more. Easy to learn but difficult to master. 16K.
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Votem Data Acquisition – Hi-Res. Written VOTEM, a simple voltage-to-frequency converter, designed for single-channel analog data acquisition. Allows multi-screen acquisition, variable scale and timebase. Without the VOTEM, it was useful for frequency measurement, via the tape input jack. 16K.
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Votem Data Acquisition – Hi-res. Written for the Votem, a simple voltage-to-frequency converter designed for single-channel analog data acquisition using the ZX81. Fred’s implementation allows multi-screen acquisition, variable scale and timebase. 
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Adapted by Greg Harder from a ZX81 program in a British magazine. It’s a cool little adventure game, that nicely shows off his SHREB sprites, among other things. Requires 32K of RAM, but no need to poke RAMTOP higher; it only uses high memory for data storage.
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Construct and generate, calculate large tables for budget sheets, financial analysis, and projections. 16K.
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High-speed storage and retrieval program. Access personal or business files almost instantly. Design or format files to suit specific needs and update/query them. Also published as The Organizer by Timex. 16K.
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Based on a Computer Recreations piece in Scientific American. It’s a predator vs. prey simulator, kind of like “Life”: you have to populate a planet with fish and sharks. The idea is to keep both species alive on a long-term basis. This uses Nissim Elmaleh’s “SHR” for the cover screen and graphing routines.
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Ecology simulation program which first appeared in Oct โ€™84 issue of Scientific American. WA-TOR recreates the ecology of 3 independent species. You can experiment by changing populations, feed cycles, reproduction, etc. Watch generations pass on the TV screen. Generate HI-RES population curves on the 2040 printer. Uses Nissim Elmaleh‘s “SHR” for the cover screen and
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You command the German invasion of Russia to take Moscow. As commander of the German forces you must launch a surprise invasion of Russia, capture and hold Moscow before the weather and the Red Army overwhelms you. Effects of terrain, weather and fuel supply. Eleven types of divisions and brigades. Available for the TS 1000
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Word processor with extended features. 42 characters per line, upper and lower case plus punctuation and 20 special characters. Full screen editing, auto repeat on all keys. 8,000 characters with 16K RAM, expandable for larger RAM packs. Requires 16k and TS2040 or Alphacom 32 printer. 16-64K.
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Year-at-a-Glance calculates any year between 1800-2099, showing the whole year on a single screen. Press “M” to give the month legends, “D” for day-of-the-week. Move the cursor around the calendar to highlight any date, then press ENTER: you’re shown your appointments or other significant events for that date. Move the cursor to a non-date field,
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Level designer for Dungeon of Ymir.
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Terminal software for the ZX81/TS1000 for use with the Byte-Back MD2 modem.
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In Sword Of Peace, free yourself from a dungeon to prove yourself worthy of becoming the Monarch of Oz. Zombies: Stranded on an island, your only hope to avoid the Zombies is to lure them into potholes. 16K.
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Unlimited vocabulary including: words, letters, symbols and numbers. Talking is as simple as typing “TESTING 1 2 3”. Requires 16K RAM.
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Machine code program occupies 7K of memory and locates itself at the top of memory. The program is a full Editor/Assembler and Monitor. Labels may be used instead of any string. The features include Line Insertion/Delete, Insert Characters, Auto Repeat on all keys. The monitor has facilities to inspect memory, registers and run machine code
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Machine code monitor and disassembler. ZXBUG is a powerful tool for machine language programming. It is 4K long and uses memory from 71E0h to the top memory. ZX BUG works in hexadecimal (base 16), not decimal, so all addresses are a maximum of 4 hex bits long. Provides a total of 28 commands. 16K.
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A challenging chess program, written in machine language, designed to operate in the ZX81 fast mode. ZX Chess allows you to select from 6 levels of play, choose either black or white, and enables castling and en-passant moves. Unique self-running feature: you start the tape and when the chess board appears on the screen, start
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All the features of ZX Chess I, plus more. Has a book of 32 opening moves. Can play at 7 levels, four of which play within competition time limits. A move is suggested by the computer if requested. 16K.
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ZX Galaxia is a good adaption to the ZX81 of the popular arcade game. You are being attacked in deep space by formations of hostile Galaxians, and it is your mission to prevent them from attacking Earth by zapping them with your laser gun as they break out of formation and hurtle towards you. 16K.
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Machine language database with multi-word search, ordered displays, definable printer functions. Flexible file size, instant file access. 59 page manual and updates via newsletter. Available on ROM from ROMPAK. 16-64K.
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Pilot your spacecraft through a fast moving, complex space maze. Watch out for missiles being fired from all directions. You can shoot back or evade them.
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Full implementation of FORTH for the ZX81/TS1000. Runs up to 10 times faster than Basic. ZX-FORTH complies with the FORTH-79 standard, with the exceptions of replacing the # sign with the British pound symbol, the @ sign with a question mark, the exclamation point with *, an apostrophe with the word “tick”, and “[” and
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Full-featured graphics-design program for the ZX81 or T/S 1000/1500. A minimum of 32K RAM plus either a SCRAM Board, Delta Device (32K NVM) or a modified Hunter Board is required. Includes 12 page manual.
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Terminal program that offers 40, 60 and 80-column mode on the ZX81/TS 1000. Supports data transfers, full ASCII support, printer support and more. Requires M1 NOT adapter. 32K or more RAM recommended. Also available on EPROM for use with the IF/Firmware Card.
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Depends on the Byte-Back or Timex/Westridge modem.
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Two-pass assembler that supports symbolic expressions. Initially available separately. Available on EPROM.
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Learn and program in machine code the easy way with this powerful Z80 assembler, commissioned specially for the ZX80 & ZX81. Standard Z80 mnemonics are simply written into REM statements within your BASIC program. The assembly listings, together with addresses and assembled codes are displayed on the screen when assembled. The assembled code is executed
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The perfect complement to ZXAS assembler, ZXDB is a complete combined machine code disassembler and debugging program. May be used in conjunction with your own program. Additional features include Single Step, Block, Search, Transfer and Fill, Hex Loader, Register Display and more. Executed by single keyboard entry. The combination of ZXAS/ZXDB plus one of our
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