| Contest Closes | The Second Sort-of-Annual Programmer's Contest officially closed April 15th. Soon judging of the entries will be complete, the winners announced, and the prizes awarded. Be watching the July/August issue for the winning programs to be published! | |
| Fabulous Fest Feted | Mix 500 plus people who share a like interest with 52 vendors and displays, a superior hotel, service, and banquet, add over 116 door prizes and gifts, sprinkle in some terrific software and hardware bargains (Spectrum titles as low as 2 for $5.00, new QL’s with Psion software-$99.00), plus some excellent speakers, and what do you get? | |
| For Your Support | This column announces any software, hardware, and related modifications that are new or otherwise untested by us. If you have something of interest, we will announce it here. Send us a description of your product (PLEASE keep it short). | Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Forum | Dear Editor, As a newcomer to your magazine, having seen only two issues thus far, may I make the following suggestion? When you have the space, could you publish the index of your back issues? This would enable newcomers like myself to purchase back issues with articles of interest. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Laptop Portable: 200 Pounds | By the time you’re reading this, Cambridge Computer Ltd., Sir Clive Sinclair’s new company, is expecting to be making deliveries of the Z88 Computer, according to Personal Computer World, Great Britian’s prestigious microcomputer magazine. | Cambridge Z88 |
| Not A Bug | But annoying none-the-less. Our printer got the listings for "ABC/123" nice and dark, but pushed the inverse graphics into the mud. Since some of these are crucial to proper program operation, here are these lines in a different format. Significant spaces are indicated with a crosshatch "#", and inverse video is underlined. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| PC Findex from Tom Woods | (This is not Timex/Sinclair related so isn’t in the ‘For Your Support Column’.-ed.) PRO/FILE, the popular data base program for ZX/TS computers has been refitted for use on PC compatible machines, says Tom Woods, PRO/FILE’s creator. | |
| Put Your Inkjet in Plotter Mode | Here is an answer to Robert Haley’s letter in FORUM, SWN 4/2. I suspect the chief problem is understanding the PR2300 User Guide. It seems to have been written in Italian and translated into UK English (rather than American English) by someone whose first tongue was NOT English. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Quick Print Your Pro/File & Tasword Files | One day as I was drumming my fingers on the desktop while waiting for my Tasword tape to load, I began thinking how ridiculous it was to be loading the whole program just to print out one page of a form or letter. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Soapbox | After seeing some of the new software available for the ZX81/TS1000, specifically “Dungeon of Ymir” and “SRAM HI*RES Extended BASIC,” something has occurred to me about the TS1000 lacking color and sound. Color and sound is nice, and it can even be spectacular in a good game or whatever. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| TS1000 Mystery Program | “How about a ‘Mystery Program’ for SWN? This would be something really bizarre, yet interesting to a lot of readers. We would supply nothing but a listing; no documentation, no explanation. Let ’em figure it out themselves!” -tbw “Sounds great. I know just the program. Greg Harder wrote this nifty ______ program, called “______”. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Upgrade to Hi-res Chess | Most of you are undoubtedly as thrilled as I am, about the WRX16 high resolution core routines published in SyncWare News #4:2. This software opens new vistas (quite literally) for our ZX81’s and TS1000/1500’s. In fact, several new programs are already available from Silicon Mountain, including an Extended BASIC, a dungeon game, and various utilities. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Yahtzee | Yahtzee is a poker-style dice game where each player tries to roll combinations to match the categories on the scorecard, The program is set up for 4 players, There are 5 dice. All are automatically rolled on each first roll, Each player is allowed 3 rolls per category. There are 13 categories. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
