| 2K-SDP: A Serial Data Port |
A system which allows transfer of data between ZX/TS and ТS2068 computers and cassette tape operations in TS2068 format. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| And in This Corner |
Tom Woods, the venerable publisher of SyncWare News, will be stepping down from that post іп the near future. An open letter to our readers from Tom appears in this issue’s Forum column (see Changing of the Guard). Current SyncWare News Editor, Jeff Moore, will be assuming the duties of publisher, the keeper of subscriptions, |
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| Basil's Compendium |
So far, the Z80 chip must impress you as being a singularly inflexible device. It will do what you ask it to, and do that very well–so long as you ask it to tell you the value of B+256*C. And аз long as you include enough information in the program to define В and С. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Customize Your Sign Designer |
Most, if not all, of you should have heard about the famous Print Shop program for computers such as Apple and IBM. It is a graphics package which allows you to create cards, signs, and banners for various occasions, Well, how about our Timex Sinclair computers? Zebra Systems came to the rescue by putting out |
Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| For Your Support |
Product announcements from TS-2068 Safe Disk Update, Charles Stelding, Shawn Stamp, Chia-Chi Chao, Robert Hartung, C. W. Associates, E. Arthur Brown, Larken Electronics, Silicon Mountain Computers. |
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| Forum |
Letters from Thomas B. Woods, Mel Richardson, Lou Dooley, Earl Swallow, Petrus Hu. |
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| Happy 5th! |
Believe it or not, here we are about to embark on our fifth year of publishing SYNCWARE NEWS. We are committed to the continued technical, hardware, and software support of Timex TS1000/ZX81, TS1500, and TS2068 computers. For the next year, we’re going to guarantee to bring you five more issues packed with ideas, tips, and |
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| Oliger DOS v.2 & M-SCRIPT |
I just received my JLO SAFE Disk Basic V2.11 EPROM and it’s GRR-REAT. Here’s how I changed the BASIC in my A&J Microdrive version of Dohay/MSCRIPT to use it. |
Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| SyncWare Examines the IBM PC, Part 2: A Bit About the PC |
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| They Like the Z88 |
The September 1987 issue of Great Britain’s prestigious Personal Computer World magazine contains a very favorable review of the Cambridge Computer Z88 Laptop Computer. |
Cambridge Z88 |
| TS1000 Mystery Program II |
Here is where we let the cat out of the bag. Load back the program you saved to tape last issue, and enter the following BASIC lines. You will end up with a completely self-documenting arcade-style game program, For those of you who figured out how the game works, congratulations! For those of you who |
Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| TYD*BYTS |
OS64 Bug I recently discovered a latent catastrophe in my OS64 cartridge version 1.72. The cart. sets RAMTOP at 65255. This is ABOVE the machine stack and RAM-resident code. If a long program overwrites the machine stack, it’s BYE-BYE! The normal place for RAMTOP in double display file modes is 63255, the first byte below |
Timex/Sinclair 1500, Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Tyd*Byts: Oliger Printer Port/Mscript Compatibility |
If you have a slight amount of hardware expertise, here is a simple, no-extra-parts-required, modification for the JLO parallel port which provides support for the Centronics port PAPER EMPTY Status bit. This also eliminates the diode-ORed pull-down, which is, theoretically, a marginal technique (although it’s cheap and seems to work finе!). I don’t know if |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| VAL$ on Your 2068 |
This feature demonstrated is one of the subtleties implied by the statement “Sinclair machines always call the expression evaluator”, and plays a role in the sometimes odd report codes that result from failures at intermediate steps. |
Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
