Syd Wyncoop

Location: Oregon

Articles (57)

TitleAuthor(s)PublicationDate
2068 Large Printer Screen Dump
As many of you will recall, prior to moving from Portland in May, I was teaching MC to several CCATS...
The PlotterFebruary 1989
2068/Spectrum Wares
First of all, some user correspondence: Bob Welburn of Lake Worth, FL writes, “I purchased an emulator from Jack Keene,...
Time Designs MagazineSeptember/October 1985
A Review of a Aerco FD-68 Utilities Program Disk
This is a nifty set of disk utilities for the Aerco FD-68.
Update MagazineApril 1988
A Review of Tech Draw Jr.ZX-AppealSummer 1987
A Study In Numbers
Tutorial on numbering systems common with computers.
Time Designs MagazineMay/June 1987
Beginning Z80 Machine Code Part Eleven
The last instructions we have to discuss are the group that deal with interrupts. This will of necessity be a...
Time Designs MagazineNovember/December 1987
Beginning Z80 Machine Code, Lesson 1
First in a series of articles about programming Z80 machine code on the 1000 and 2068.
Time Designs MagazineMarch/April 1986
Beginning Z80 Machine Code, Lesson 10
The subject this time is the Z-80 Block instructions. There are block instructions for I/O, search (compare), and transfer (assignment)....
Time Designs MagazineSeptember/October 1987
Beginning Z80 Machine Code, Lesson 2
Last issue we discussed Hexidecimal (Hex) numbers and I left you with a machine code (MC) hex loader. You should...
Time Designs MagazineMay/June 1986
Beginning Z80 Machine Code, Lesson 3
Before we get to our first MC instructions, lets take another look inside our CPU. Inside we will find registers...
Time Designs MagazineJuly/August 1986
Beginning Z80 Machine Code, Lesson 5
I left the last lesson with a challenge to you to rewrite the sample disassembly from Lesson 2 to eliminate...
Time Designs MagazineNovember/December 1986
Beginning Z80 Machine Code, Lesson 6
Lesson focuses on the stack and instructions that use the stack.
Time Designs MagazineJanuary/February 1987
Beginning Z80 Machine Code, Lesson 7
One of the series of introductory machine code programming articles.
Time Designs MagazineMarch/April 1987
Beginning Z80 Machine Code, Lesson 8
Unusual Z80 instructions that don't have a common theme or set.
Time Designs MagazineMay/June 1987
Beginning Z80 Machine Code, Lesson 9
This time we will discuss the I/O instructions. For those of you that are wondering what I/O means, it is...
Time Designs MagazineJuly/August 1987
Beginning Z80 Machine Code, Part Four
Math on the Z80 with addition and subtraction functions.
Time Designs MagazineSeptember/October 1986
Beginning Z80 Machine Code: Final Lesson
This is it folks. I leave it to you to progress from here. There are many other instructions I could...
Time Designs MagazineMarch/April 1988
Bit-Image Graphics
At our after-the-meeting meeting last month, Dick challenged me to show how the bit-image graphics mode of a dot-matrix printer...
The PlotterJanuary 1988
Bits & Bytes
Vulcan drops orphans, Best of the Plotter, and old friend (Syd Wyncoop) returns to the fold.
The Plotter
Bits & BytesThe PlotterNovember 1986
Chairman’s CornerThe PlotterNovember 1987
Chairman’s CornerThe PlotterJune - July 1987
Chairman’s CornerThe PlotterAugust 1987
Chairman’s CornerThe PlotterSeptember 1987
Chairman’s CornerThe PlotterMay 1987
Chairman’s CornerThe PlotterApril 1987
Chairman’s CornerThe PlotterJanuary 1988
Chairman’s CornerThe PlotterMarch 1987
Chairman’s CornerThe PlotterFebruary 1987
Chairman’s CornerThe PlotterDecember 1987
Fat CharactersThe PlotterFebruary 1988
From the Chairman’s ComputerThe PlotterDecember 1986
From the Chairman’s ComputerThe PlotterOctober 1986
From the Chairman’s ComputerThe PlotterJuly - August 1986
From the Chairman’s ComputerThe PlotterSeptember 1986
From the Chairman’s ComputerThe PlotterJanuary 1987
From the Chairman’s ComputerThe PlotterOctober 1987
From the Chairman’s ComputerThe PlotterJune 1986
From the Chairman’s ComputerThe PlotterMay 1986
From the Chairman’s ComputerThe PlotterFebruary 1986
From the Chairman’s ComputerThe PlotterNovember 1986
Full Screen Dump on Your 2040 PrinterThe PlotterNovember 1986
Letters
“As I have a Spectrum +, Interface One, two Microdrives, Beta Plus DDI (with Amdek III), a working 2050 attached,...
Time Designs MagazineMay/June 1986
Letters
Answers to question from Vince Stimmel in previous issue from Branson Wilcox and William Andrews. Richard Hurd on machine language...
Time Designs MagazineMarch/April 1987
Letters to the EditorThe PlotterMay 1986
Nova 1000
Nova 1000 claims to provide the humble TS1000 with the ability to perform multi-tasking. In case you are unaware, the...
Time Designs MagazineJuly/August 1987
Number Base Converter
Program to convert between number bases.
Time Designs MagazineMay/June 1987
Save Memory: Use Buried Color Codes Instead of Color Commands
Many of you have purchased commercial programs that appear to be unlistable, yet they run fine. One of the ways...
Syd WyncoopThe PlotterJanuary 1987
Sprites 2068
SPRITES 2068 is a sprite development and handler package. Those of you that have the Technical Manual will note that...
Time Designs MagazineNovember/December 1986
The Aerco FD-68 Disk System
Review of the system.
Update MagazineJanuary 1988
The Check WriterThe PlotterNovember 1987
The FD-68 Update
The following list is just a few of the programs I find indispensable and which I strongly recommend you obtain....
Update MagazineApril 1989
The FD-68 Update
Using RP/M (a clone of CP/M by Micro-Methods) with the TS-2068 and FD-68.
Update MagazineJanuary 1989
The FD-68 Update
Program/routines to switch between Sinclair/Timex mode and CP/M mode on the FD-68.
Update MagazineJuly 1989
The Programming Corner
Questions about Larken disk system; programming in machine code; recovering from data loss.
Time Designs MagazineSeptember/October 1988
Use Your 80 Column Printer From BASIC
We had quite a few enquiries at the last meeting on using a large printer from Basic. I have given...
Syd WyncoopThe PlotterMarch 1987
Zebra Systems WC2050 to RS232 KitThe PlotterApril 1987

Books (1)

TitleAuthor(s)Date
Beginning Z80 Machine CodeSyd Wyncoop1989

User Groups (2)

TitleLocationFounded
Larken system owners
People who bought a Larken disk system for the Timex/Sinclair 2068 or an AERCO FD-68 disk system serviced by Larken,...
UPDATE subscribers
Subscribers to UPDATE Magazine, Bill Jones’s newsletter, from his mail-merge subscriber list (the same names are on his Daisy/Hybiscus customer...

Events (2)

TitleDateLocationSponsor
1987 Northwest/International Timex Sinclair Mini-Fair
Held September 26 in Portland, Oregon, this event was organized by Rod Gowen, of RMG Enterprises.
September 26, 1987Seattle, Washington (Masonic Temple)RMG Enterprises
Time Designs Magazine Company
1988 Third Annual Northwest/International Timex Sinclair Mini-Fair
Held August 6 and 7 in Portland, Oregon, this event was organized by Rod Gowen, of RMG Enterprises.
August 6, 1988Portland, OregonRMG Enterprises