| 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! |
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| 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, plus some excellent speakers, and what do you get? The Second Annual Mid West Timex Computer Fest! If you missed |
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| For Your Support |
Product announcements from AN-TO Productions, Bill Bell, Chia-Chi Chao, David Hill, Fred Nachbaur/Silicon Mountain Computers, Knighted Computers, C. W. Associates, RMG Enterprises, Weymil Corporation, Grey & Clifford Computer Products, Rockfort Products, Charles Stelding, John McMichael, G. Russell Electronics. |
Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Forum |
Letters from Gerd Breunung, Arthur Gindin, Bill Heberlein, David Barrow, Basil Wentworth, Robert Hartung, William Frank, T. G. Morley, Lyle Luzum, John Constantine, George Cary. |
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. This new entry into the laptop computer market sports integrated software, a LCD display, tips the scales at 2 lbs., and |
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 |
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. The new program, called FINDEX, is a much upgraded version which makes uses of the PC’s disk drives, 80 column video, and greater memory capacity. New features include the ability to merge |
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| 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. Awkward User’s Guide notwithstanding, the PR2300 has |
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. All that I really needed was a printer driver and a short |
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. However, I have noticed that after |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| TS1000 Mystery Program |
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Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Upgrade to Hi-res Chess |
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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 |
