SYNC v3 n2 – Timex/Sinclair Computers

Date: March/April 1983

Volume: 3

Issue: 2

Articles

Title	Description	Computers
8K Non-Volatile Memory Kit	Review of Hunter board. The Non-Volatile memory (NVM) kit is a battery backup powered RAM board that is primarily designed to fill the transparent address area between 8K and 16K in the Sinclair ZX80/81. The key feature of this product is that with the onboard battery, the routines stored in NVM are retained even with	Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000
A Regulated-Voltage Power Adaptor	Schematics to build power supplies for the ZX81.	Sinclair ZX81
A Small Business Payroll Program	Every business with paid employees has the complicated task of doing its payroll. The program in this article will provide accurate payroll information for up to 35 employees. If the number of employees is greater then 35, the list can be broken down into shorter lists and the results combined where needed.	Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000
Adding Feet and Inches	The program assumes the following conventions: dimensions are entered in feet, inches and eighths. Fractions involving sixteenths and beyond are not used. A dimension 12″ or larger is expressed in terms of feet and inchies. For example, 16″ is expressed as 1’4″.	Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000
Archaeological Research Using the ZX81	With slight modifications, this program can be adapted to other categories of archaeological data such as pottery, artefacts, or settlement research. The possibilities of the ZX81 are not exhausted by this program. Among other things, the high resolution capabilities of the ZX Printer enabled us to write a program which generated user-designed characters, in our	Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000
Deleting Blocks of Basic Statements	Simple routine to delete a block of lines.	Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000
Flight Simulation	Flight Simulation puts you at the controls of an airplane in midflight, and your objective is to navigate to the airport and land. This is something like saying your objective in pinball is to keep the ball in play: not as easy as it sounds. Review of the Gladstone Electronics program.	Sinclair ZX81
Glitchoidz Report	A Machine Code Graphics Line-Drawing Subroutine; Renumbering Basic Statements; Random Walks; Block Transfers: Variables Transfer; A Cheap and Simple EPROM Programmer; Programming the LOAD Command
Just for Fun	Four Quadrants; Hi-Res “Draw It”; 3-D Cube; Blastoff; Train; Random Rectangles; Ricochet
Knowing Your Strengths	As an Industrial Designer, I am often required to specify the minimum practical amounts of material and the most effective configurations that will safely support a given load before spending thousands of dollars in tooling to produce parts for testing. The program I developed for this task has proved extremely rewarding. Now I can try	Sinclair ZX81
Letters	Mouthful; Draw and Store; Rounding Off
Looping the Loop	How can you do long, complicated jobs using machines code— without having to write long, complicated programs in machine code? The answer, in a word: loops.	Sinclair ZX81
Machine Language Storage in REM	When a series of consecutive REM statements is to be used to provide storage for machine language the leading four bytes of the second and subsequent REMs cannot simply be overwritten. Your machine language program would almost certainly crash. The solution is relatively simple. Change the byte count of the first REM statement to include	Sinclair ZX81
Macro Photo	This program will allow the photographer to input the data which the ZX81 will use to figure the adjusted exposure time (for bellows length and reciprocity), the proper subject to lens distance, and the proper film to lens distance for a given image magnification.	Sinclair ZX81
Managing with the ZX81	The program below, written for a ZX81 with 16K RAM, is designed to answer management questions. It is, in fact, a suite of five programs linked together, with an initial menu to enable the user to choose from among them. It is based on a series of rapid statistical tests devised by Eric Duckworth, a	Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000
Math Support from Your ZX81	Four routines to help with math or algebra.	Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000
Minotaur	This active-animation program displays a full-screen picture of a maze, and shows your progress through it to its only exit. Meanwhile, the Minotaur (a mythical half-man, half-bull creature which inhabited the Labyrinth at Minos) is on the prowl and determined to have you for lunch!	Timex/Sinclair 1000
Resources (Sync v3 n2)	Listing of new user groups, books and other resources.
Sync Notes	Timex/Sinclair 2000; SYNC on the Job.	Timex Computer 2048, Timex/Sinclair 2000, Timex/Sinclair 2068
System Expansion Hardware	System Enclosures and Radio Frequency Interference; an add-on expansion bus.	Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000
The Sinclair Grade Book	In preparing a grade book program for the Sinclair, it was first necessary to decide upon the form the recorded data should be returned in. One of the advantages of a good program is that it may be returned in any number of forms, at the operator’s discretion.In the following program, I have included provisions	Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000
Understanding Number Systems	This explanation of number systems was written to explain the working of my home computer to my son. It is all too easy to destroy enthusiasm for learning by trying to teach a technical subject from generalizations (boring) or from technical terms (confusing); either way can be self-defeating.
Using the Byte-Back BB-1 and the ZX81 as a Control Device	Describes using the ZX81 and Byte-Back device with a Skinner box.	Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000
ZX Maze	Have you dreamed of writing a graphics game complete with maze, treasure, and gobbling hunter? Perhaps you figured out how to move your man and draw the maze, but how in blazes do you teach your treasure seeker that he cannot just march through walls to collect his prize? Finding a way around this dilemma	Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000