| A ZX/TS Celebration in Boston | On October 22, 1983, the Boston Computer Society’s Sinclair-Timex User Group celebrated their Second Anniversary at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel. And what a celebration it was, with exhibits, seminars, and new Timex/Sinclair product announcements! | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 1500, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Bit by Bit | Machine language tutorial. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Bubbles | The weekly meeting of our Central PA Timex/Sinclair Users Group was coming up quickly, and I had promised a demonstration of my new TS2068 computer. I needed a special program fast to show off some of its new features. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Build Your Own Spreadsheet | Machine language program for creating and manipulating a moving "window" across data. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Chaining Programs | From time to time we have two programs or more that we want to combine—perhaps a main program and a subroutine. Obviously, this can be done if they are both typed in from scratch. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Glitchoidz Report | Contrary to the implication in the article, Tim Hartnell is by no means “retired” from the book field. Rather, we understand that he is vigorously engaged in making more titles available to ZX/TS users. ZX Stock Exchange 3:5 The author suggests several improvements. | |
| Hatch Your Nest Egg | The best part about money is spending it. The worst part is that eventually the money runs out. Calculating how long the money will last can be time consuming and tedious. How frustrating it is to complete a lengthy set of calculations covering a 20 year period, only to discover that you forgot to take | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable, Type-in program |
| Highway Robbery | Highway Robbery is a fast-paced machine code driving game specifically designed to fit into a basic 1K machine. With no modifications it can also be run on 2K and greater. Loading the Machine Code Entering the program will be done in a series of six steps, and, if you are a good typist, possibly only three steps. | |
| Home Control on a Budget | You can operate virtually any electrical device in your house with your ZX81 or TS1000 computer, an inexpensive wireless home controller, and an adaptation of the circuits used in my “Robotics on a Budget” article (SYNC 3:4). | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| In and Out of SYNC | The TI99/4A; Making a Dancer | |
| Just for Fun | “Just for Fun” shares short programs that illustrate a point, demonstrate a technique, or show something the author has found interesting. If you have some programs that you want to share, send them to: Just for Fun, SYNC, 39 E. Hanover Ave., Morris Plains, NJ 07950. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable, Type-in program |
| Keyboard Alternatives | Alternatives to the Sinclair keyboard: overlays, beepers, full keyboards. Plans for wiring your own keyboard and list of keyboard alternative vendors provided. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Kitchen Sync | The Nanos Systems reference card is clear, concise, and, for its shortcomings, is the best handy reference for the ZX80/ZX81 I have seen. | Sinclair ZX80, Sinclair ZX81 |
| Las Computadoras de Costa Rica | Costa Rica has been described as an island of sanity in tumultuous Central America. With strife in Nicaragua and civil war in El Salvador to the north and the United States’ uneasy ally Panama to the south, Costa Rica maintains stability and close ties to the U.S. | |
| Letters | RUNning with Reduced RAM, Brick Busters, Help, Upgrading Problem, Inverse Matrix. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Resources (Sync v4 n1) | Listing of new user groups, books and other resources. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Search and Replace Routines | The routines in are designed to search through a program and replace all occurrences of one character or keyword with another (keywords are represented with one byte, too). The routines can all be entered directly from the keyboard into a 1 REM line. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Split and Save | Would you like to freeze the upper part of your display screen? With "Split 'n Save" you can! While the information in the lower portion is appearing and disappearing, any test or graphics in the upper portion remain on view. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable, Type-in program |
| Sync Notes | SYNC in the Home Office, Coming Issues, Writing for SYNC, TS1500 and TS2068. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 1500, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Tax Shelter Time Bomb | Calculate the point at which a tax shelter returns taxable income. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| The Thurnall System | The TE devices are a sound investment: They are well built and at a reasonable price for Sinclair expansion. If you do not have any electronic experience or applications along those lines, you will probably be interested only in the parallel port and the joysticks. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Try This | “Try This” features short programs to show off your computer, impress your family and friends, and tickle your imagination when SYNC arrives at your place. Send your contributions to: Try This, SYNC, 39 E. Hanover Ave., Morris Plains, NJ 07950. Type in the following lines. TS1000: Put the computer in SLOW mode. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Watch Where You Are Going | In many games you need to know if something is already in the space where you are about to print another character. Whether you are firing a missile at a target, having PacMan gobble dots, or checking for a dead end in a maze, the method is the same: calculate the new position for your | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Word Processing on ZX/TS Computers | Comparison of wordprocessing and text editing programs for the Timex/Sinclair 1000. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
