Articles (158)
| Title | Author(s) | Publication | Date |
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| “Miz.B4” (A Mizzery Saver) Converts an in-memory machine language program into a BASIC loader, with machine program stored as decimal numbers in DATA statements. | Update Magazine | July 1989 | |
| A 2068 Newsletter Announcement for UPDATE Magazine. | The Plotter | September 1987 | |
| A Break Through DOS for the TS-2068 MAX DOS: combining Oliger DOS and Larken DOS. | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| A Cheap and Excellent Twin Disk Drive You can get the Amdisk III for $49.95. | Update Magazine | January 1988 | |
| A Code File Printer MS-TAS is a utility to peek and print out Mscript and Tasword CODE files. | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| A Fist Full of LKDOS Tools | Update Magazine | July 1989 | |
| A Fist Full of LKDOS Tools | Sinc-Link | July/August 1989 | |
| A Menagerie of Opinions and Some Programming Tips Tips about disks and disk systems; a short program to print labels. | Update Magazine | April 1991 | |
| A Print Wheel Problem Reader problems distinguishing characters from the print wheel used to produce the newsletter. | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| A QL Printing Primer Here is a little tutorial for setting up the QL to print to paper “without a word processor”. It does... | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| A Save Nothing File Save a blank “CODE” file that can later be used to clear a machine code program. | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| A TOS (Zebra) Disk Newsletter Ron Havlen started FDD Express, a resumption of the defunct TOPS Newsletter. | Bill Jones | Update Magazine | July 1988 |
| A Utility that uses System Variables The following utility really should be in the EXTRA MEMORY section, because It Is so useful be able to MOVE... | April 1988 | ||
| About Disk Drives There are many types of disk drives available. Commodore introduced a 3 1/2 inch drive with their Amiga computer. Now... | Update Magazine | October 1987 | |
| About TS-2068 Safe Disk Up-Date TS-2068 SAFE DISK UP-DATE is a general publication to support TS-2068 Users. SDU is orientated to those serious users who... | Update Magazine | October 1987 | |
| About your Editor, plus Nostalgia Short autobiography of Bill Jones. | Update Magazine | October 1987 | |
| Addendum to Article in January Update “Dock Bank Memory, 20 Cents” Corrected diagram. | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| Amateur Programming Support Call for tips, articles from readers. | Update Magazine | April 1991 | |
| Announcements Quantum Levels magazines ending publishing. New issue disks. | Update Magazine | July 1989 | |
| Announcing “Gulf Micro Electronic” A company for Bill Jones’ software. | Update Magazine | July 1990 | |
| Basic Programming with DEF FN() and Boolean Logic Program that converts between binary, decimal and hexadecimal numbers and performs math operations across them. | Update Magazine | July 1991 | |
| Be Seein You Letter from former editor. | Update Magazine | July 1990 | |
| Beginner’s Programming, All Computers | Update Magazine | October 1990 | |
| Bill’s Letter | ZX-Appeal | April 1988 | |
| Bits & Bytes | The Plotter | December 1987 | |
| Bits & Pieces | ZX-Appeal | Summer 1990 | |
| Cambridge Z88 NewsNotes When UPDATE purchased the Z88 back in January 1989 three issues of “News Notes” were received. NewsNotes is a very... | Update Magazine | July 1989 | |
| Check the VARS Area VARS_DIS is a utility to MERGE to any BASIC program to give you a disassembly of the entire VARS area. | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| Circuit Cellar Feedback: Multitasking Timex Letter from Bill Jones noting that he’d built a Timex 1000 and wanted to build another to make a multi-tasking... | Byte | May 1985 | |
| Copy Screens with “scopy.B6” Program to print screen files to printer. | Update Magazine | July 1990 | |
| Correspondence | The Plotter | April 1988 | |
| Creating Export Data Files With PSION Software (Abacus/Quill) Then Importing Them to Quill How to export files from Abacus and read them into Quill. | Update Magazine | January 1989 | |
| CTM Magazine Quits Chet Lambert, owner/publisher of CTM Magazine, announced in the June issue that he is quitting. CTM supported amateur radio operators... | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| D.base-1 DBASE-1 makes maximum use of the computer’s free memory, and coordinates disk drive to manage data base files. The sorting... | Update Magazine | July 1989 | |
| Daisy Be Good – I Series of articles dealing with Bill Jones’ suite of word processing programs. | ZXir QLive Alive! | Winter 1994 | |
| Daisy Be Good – II | ZXir QLive Alive! | Spring 1995 | |
| Daisy Be Good – III | ZXir QLive Alive! | Summer 1995 | |
| Daisy Be Good – IV | ZXir QLive Alive! | Autumn 1995 | |
| Daisy Be Good – IX | ZXir QLive Alive! | Winter 1996 | |
| Daisy Be Good – V | ZXir QLive Alive! | Winter 1995 | |
| Daisy Be Good – VI | ZXir QLive Alive! | Spring 1996 | |
| Daisy Be Good – VII | ZXir QLive Alive! | Summer 1996 | |
| Daisy Be Good – VIII | ZXir QLive Alive! | Autumn 1996 | |
| Daisy Be Good – X | ZXir QLive Alive! | Spring 1997 | |
| Daisy Be Good – XI | ZXir QLive Alive! | Summer 1997 | |
| Daisy Be Good Update, Part 1 | ZXir QLive Alive! | Winter 1994 | |
| Dbase1 Evolution History of Dbase1 and updates. | Update Magazine | July 1990 | |
| Dear Editor Everyone knows that Sinclair Timex computers are dead now that Timex quit, right? Well, I’m always the last to get... | Syntax | May 1984 | |
| Dear Editor TS2068 version of Dave Wood’s High Line Numbers; maintaining the ZX81; questions about TS2040, TS2068 and TS1500. | Syntax | January 1984 | |
| Dear Editor Complaints over proposed magazine price increase; altering Westridge modem software; retain memory contents after crash; bugs in JRC assembler/compiler. InfoWorld’s... | Syntax | August 1984 | |
| Dense Pack BASIC | June - July 1987 | ||
| Dense Pack Basic, and the use of Logical Operators There has been a considerable amount of questions and interest about Dense Pack programming techniques andt the use of Boolean... | July 1988 | ||
| Disjointed Programming Tips Short descriptions of available DOSes and utilities. | Update Magazine | April 1991 | |
| Disk Drives, the Repair thereof, and analogies Disk drive repair cost exceeds new replacement cost, by way of an analogy about Lincoln cars. | Update Magazine | January 1989 | |
| Editorial This issue has several useful utilities plus two major programs. The second program “SDOS MAIL MERGE” is outstanding in its... | Update Magazine | October 1987 | |
| Editorials and Announcements Bill Cable is QL editor; advertising dropped, magazine is cooperative effort; seeking volunteers to publish Update. | Update Magazine | October 1989 | |
| Enthusiastic 2068ers I wish that I could print the dozens of enthusiastic and supportive letters that I have received from dedicated 2068ers.... | Update Magazine | October 1987 | |
| Exploring Def FN and FN Programming math formulas using DEF FN. | Update Magazine | July 1991 | |
| Extra Memory A TS-2068 that has twenty times the maximum capacity of a IBM XT! Do pictures and proof schematics lie? An... | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| Extra Memory Programming Most of us can visualize the computer's "regular" memory. We know that the ROM part of memory has "fixed" machine... | Update Magazine | January 1988 | |
| Eye Burn From Computer Monitors Computer monitors have introducted a damaging phenomenon, “monitor burn.” Monitor burn is similar in effect to suburn. One’s eyes can... | Update Magazine | October 1987 | |
| Good News Travels | VISTA Newsletter | ||
| Help with the Aerco FD-68 Aerco FD-68 DOS lacks the ability to save character arrays. A solution is proposed. | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| How Goes It, Update? MAX DOS vs MS DOS vs QL DOS; SPDOS for Oliger; TS-2068 and Sinclair QL issue disks and micro drive... | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| How Goes It? SDU intends to cover ALL TS-2068 Disk Drive Systems. These are: The Oliger Safe Disk, The Aerco FD-68, The Larkin,... | Update Magazine | October 1987 | |
| Hybiscus: A TS-2068 Software System Five Major Softwares Coordinated A cohesive set of applications for database management and word processing. | Update Magazine | January 1991 | |
| Is This It? | SMUG Bytes | March 1990 | |
| Is This It? I Guess Not! | SMUG Bytes | April 1990 | |
| J-Util Listing Disassembler, poke a decimal table, poke a hex table, convert Hex-Dec-BIN, Mixed Math, Binary Table. | Update Magazine | October 1987 | |
| Jan 1988 Editorial Up-Date provides support for disk drive users; Winter Fest in Orlando; Filing Up-Date pages; New software; Up-Date BBS. | Update Magazine | January 1988 | |
| Larken Tip Recommendation for LKDOS users to subscribe to SINC LINK. | Update Magazine | January 1989 | |
| LDOS Version 3 One can upgrade to version 3 by ordering a new EPROM for LKDOS. It provides a raft of great improvements. | Update Magazine | January 1989 | |
| Letter about Z88 | ZX-Appeal | March 1990 | |
| LKDOS “Didja Knows” | Sinc-Link | May/June 1990 | |
| LKDOS Off Switch (For MAX DOS Operation) Add an off switch to resolve conflicts with Oliger NMI functions. | Update Magazine | January 1989 | |
| LKDOS Tools by the Half Dozen | Sinc-Link | July/August 1989 | |
| Mailing List The program is written entirely in BASIC language. It stores from 100 to 425 NAMES, ADDRESSES, and PHONE NUMBERS; lists... | T-S Horizons | May/June 1986 | |
| MAX DOS: A Study of DUAL DOS in the TS-2068 For several weeks UPDATE has been testing two simultaneous disk operating systems in the TS-2068: the Oliger SAFE DOS and... | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| More About Daisy Smart Text | Update Magazine | January 1992 | |
| More on Printers and Printer Buffers | Update Magazine | January 1989 | |
| MS-TAS Documentation: A Tutor in Basic Programming Techniques Program to view MSCRIPT and TASWORD files. | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| MSDOS for the Sinclair QL MS-DOS emultors for the QL. | Update Magazine | January 1990 | |
| Musings | Update Magazine | October 1989 | |
| New 2068 Magazine | CATS Newsletter | January 1988 | |
| New 2068 Magazine Announcement for TS-2068 Update. | The Data Expansion | November 1987 | |
| New Newsletter | Sincus News | September - October 1987 | |
| New Newsletter? | LISTing Newsletter | September 1987 | |
| New, News, Views and Reviews | Sincus News | January - February 1987 | |
| Notice Order his programs through Update; 50% of proceeds support the newsletter. | Update Magazine | April 1991 | |
| ON ERR Programming The TS-2068 remembers ON ERR and the line number in an ON ERR statement well after the program line that... | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| Printers and Printer Control The genesis of this work-up goes back to my early work with the Sinclair ZX-81, a computer designed “not to... | Update Magazine | October 1989 | |
| Printing and Formatting: Commanding the Printer This is one of many selected Daisy.B6 program routines that will be excerpted and given to Public Domain. These routines... | Update Magazine | October 1989 | |
| Printing Macros Short routines for setting printer styles. | Update Magazine | July 1990 | |
| Product/Dealer News Larry Kenny of LARKEN ELECTRONICS told TDM about the plans for the 256K RAMdisk for the TS2068. It will use... | Time Designs Magazine | July/August 1987 | |
| Programming Tips (all computers): Exploring Def FN an FN How to set up and use user-defined functions. | Update Magazine | January 1991 | |
| Psion Develops Three New Computers Overview of Psion MC-200, MC-400 and MC-600 mobil computers. | Update Magazine | April 1990 | |
| Public Domain Libraries | Update Magazine | October 1989 | |
| Publishing Data Update has more than 400 subscribers. | Update Magazine | January 1989 | |
| QL Characteristics About half of the subscribers to UP-DATE are owners of both the TS-2068 and tlie Sinclair QL, the latest member... | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| QL Repair Sources/TS-2068 Repair Sources Dan Elliott and Tom Bent are recommended for QL. Elliot also repairs TS-2068. | Update Magazine | January 1989 | |
| QZX Friends Notes about renewals. Bill Jones is starting a T/S 2068 magazine. | QZX | April 1988 | |
| READer INPUT More controversy over anti-abortion ad in #17. | T-S Horizons | July-August 1986 | |
| Remember Time Designs? Short plug for Update magazine. | Timelinez | July - December 1990 | |
| SAFE Disk Up-Date | Nite-Times News | December 1987 | |
| Screen Macros: The “macro.b6” Program Program to create SCREEN$ and save/load them to/from disk. | Update Magazine | July 1990 | |
| SDOS Mail Merge for Oliger Disk | LISTing Newsletter | February - March 1988 | |
| Setting up Quill for Printers | Update Magazine | April 1990 | |
| Sinclair Publications: Quantum Levels Still Kicking Quantum Levels will continue publishing and will absorb Syncware News. | Update Magazine | January 1989 | |
| Sinclair Timex Publishing Picture Last year I offered “Update magazine on a platter” to SNUG, I am publicly renewing this offer to SNUG for... | Update Magazine | January 1990 | |
| Slave CPU Processing: Applicable to ANY Host Computer Discusses how to apply techniques described in “Interfacing to S-100/IEEE 696 Microcomputers” by Sol Libes and Mark Garatz to the... | Update Magazine | January 1990 | |
| Smart Text TS-2068 Many programs may be evaluated and either reviewed or rejected in a single session at the keyboard. This IS NOT... | T-S Horizons | July-August 1986 | |
| Telecomputing, Where We Stand Ham radio operators and computer communication via packet radio. | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| The “PEEK VARS” Utility The PEEK VARS utility is designed to be MERGED to a Basic program either under construction, or one that is... | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| The Aerco prcode, and possible Problems There are at least four versions of the Aerco printer code and each of these may have three variations of... | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| The Budget Software, Part II This software began in the April issue. Some repetition is included for convenience of reading. There are several ways of... | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| The Cable Column This featured column, by Bill Cable, starts with this issue. | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| The Cambridge Z88 Discussion of features and capabilities. | Update Magazine | October 1989 | |
| The Cambridge Z88 Computer A Sinclair portable from England: a first impression mini review. | Update Magazine | April 1989 | |
| The Extra Memory Section We can use the DOCK BANK for programs and the HOME BANK for DATA. We can put a 64K program... | Update Magazine | January 1988 | |
| The Index Printer Last issue we gave an index printing program for the TS-2068. This time I was determined to make the QL... | Update Magazine | January 1989 | |
| The J-Utilities How can one name a program that has six diverse functions? J-Util combines most “number functions” needed in computing. | Update Magazine | October 1987 | |
| The July/April Issue Disk Consolidated into One The July and April Issue Diskettes have been consolodated into one giant assemblage of programs and utilities. The consolodation was... | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| The Key-In Projects The two programs in this issue are long and complex but worth the effort to key in. | Update Magazine | October 1987 | |
| The Last Issue of your Subscription UP-DATE begin in October 1987 with 40 subscribers and climbed to 220. | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| The Lonesome Dock To date little information has been published about how dock cartridge programs, home bank memory and disk drives can be... | Update Magazine | October 1987 | |
| The MAX DOS Saga Some are having problems with conflicts. LKDOS users should use RANDOMIZE USR 100 instead of PRINT #4, which conflicts with... | Update Magazine | January 1989 | |
| The Mscript File Printer that printed the above Article Refers to the DOS-64 review by Pete Fischer. Discusses switching between 32 and 64 column modes in OS-64 and code... | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| The October and January Issue Disk The OCTOBER 87 and JANUARY 88 Issue disks are now available for three Disk Operating Systems; Oliger DOS, Larken DOS,... | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| The Oliger TS-2068 SAFE DISK System Review of the hardware and DOS. | Update Magazine | January 1988 | |
| The Printer Revolution Commentary about printer prices dropping. | Update Magazine | April 1989 | |
| The Programs for This Issue SDOS Mail Merge and Outline, a database. | Update Magazine | October 1987 | |
| The QL Beginner Course If you have dug around as I have between the four sections in the back of the QL manual, you... | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| The QL Beginner’s Column: “Software Dependant” Software Confused title? Nope! We need to understand that the bread and butter for QL computing are the many new softwares,... | Update Magazine | January 1989 | |
| The Round-Up: An Update Programming Tutorial This is a program designed for UPDATE to demonstrate several abilities of dealing with numbers. FIRST, the “INT” function “ROUNDS... | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| The Sinclair Z88: Considerations for Peripheral Design Since the Z88 uses the Z-80 CPU, some of our better interfaces for the TS-2068 offer the prospects for easy... | Update Magazine | January 1990 | |
| The Universal Code Data Printer This neat program will work with any TS-2068 configuration, Including cassette, or disk systems (with modifications). The program is designed... | Update Magazine | July 1989 | |
| This JULY UP-DATE Issue- New Programs and New Utilities Challenges in compiling disks for the various operating system are described. | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| Toronto Timex-Sinclair Users Club and SINC-LINK The Toronto Sinclair User Club is one of the most active clubs in North America. | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| TS 2068 VARS Save and Reload: TOS Disk System Version Modification to work with TOS. | Update Magazine | April 1989 | |
| TS-2068 Activities There are now three predominent disk systems for the TS-2068. Their order of usage is: LKDOS, Oliger SAFE DOS, TOS,... | Update Magazine | January 1990 | |
| TS-2068 Data Input – a utility for: data base generation, keyboard reading, character concatenation, screen display, full editing This is an audacious attack upon the most famous weaknesses of the TS-2068, slow data input and poor screen editing.... | Update Magazine | April 1989 | |
| TS-2068 Extra Memory Recap In January 1988, UPDATE began a series about extra memory. The first objective was to explore the ways and means... | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| TS-2068 Power Warning As more devices are hung on the I/O port, the rated output of the voltage regulator is stretched to the... | Update Magazine | January 1989 | |
| TS-2068 Program “Dbx.B6” A software for RECORD Keeping | Update Magazine | July 1990 | |
| TS-2068 Programming In The Abstract Manipulating the stack from BASIC. | Update Magazine | April 1990 | |
| TS-2068 Super Calc Multifunction calculator program. | Update Magazine | October 1991 | |
| TS-2068 Tool to Convert Chr Strings Program to convert two dimensional character arrays to three dimensional arrays. | Update Magazine | July 1991 | |
| TS-2068 VARS Save and Re-Load Program find and save VARS for Larken DOS or cassette. | Update Magazine | January 1989 | |
| TS2068 Up-Date I am just back from the Orlando Winter Fest where all TS-2068 and QL products were selling like hot-cakes. Even... | Bill Jones | The Data Expansion | April 1988 |
| Two Magazines Depart With Class Quantum_Levels and SyncWare News cease publication with the vol 2 num 6 of Quantum_Levels. List of back issues (incl articles)... | Update Magazine | January 1990 | |
| Update Changes Publisher Frank Davis will take over publishing with the October 1990 issue. | Update Magazine | April 1990 | |
| Update Lives | Sinclair Timex User Group Newsletter | March 1990 | |
| Update! Magazine | The Plotter | June 1990 | |
| User Group Update | Time Designs Magazine | July/August 1987 | |
| Using STR$ to Modify Disk Program Titles Solution for printing a number of files sequentially with Smart Text. | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| Utilities “INIT” and “Cclear Code” The “INIT” utilities for the three Disk Operating Systems are slightly different. Each listing may be used to pick up... | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| Z88 Battery Replacement Bill Jones discovers that the Z88 retains programs/data even when the batteries die. | Update Magazine | July 1989 | |
| Z88 to Sinclair Transfer Link Review of program/cable to transfer files from Z88 to/from QL. | Update Magazine | April 1989 |
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| Title | Type | Company | Download |
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| Smart Text V3 | Program | Gulf Micro Electronics | Download |
| Smart Text V4 | Program | Gulf Micro Electronics | Download |