Volume: 4
Issue: 8
Articles
| Title | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| Archer | Test your archery skills and learn some fundamental physics at the same time. ARCHER simulates the effects of gravity, angle and velocity on bow-and-arrow trajectory. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Copy Katt | Review of software copying program. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Dear Editor | Problem with ZX printer listings in hot months; repair keyboard connection; using CAI devices with 64K RAM; solving loading problems; ZX81 ROM bugs. | |
| Dueling Devices | Problems related to incomplete I/O address decoding. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Excuse Me, That's Sir Clive | Queen Elizabeth II of England knighted Clive Sinclair on June 11, honoring his accomplishments as inventor of the ZX/TS computer. | |
| Goodbye, SQ | SQ and SYNTAX staffers regretfully announce that SYNTAX QUARTERLY magazine has ceased publication, due to financial difficulties. | |
| New Products and Services (Syntax v4 n8) | New products from Magic World Software, Hawg Wild, Bob Fingerle, Gladstone, CompuTech, Pyramid Software, Ultimate Blackwood, SyncWare News, H. R. Brady, Timeware, Biocal, Robotec. | |
| Poke Down and Abbreviated Save/Load | Poke to limit RAMTOP and have shorter save/load times. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Program Clarifications | Corrections to Golf Partner and Weather Forecast. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Program Improvements | Improvement to Syntactic Sum, MC Video Invert. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Return on Investment | Program computes compounded annual rates of return on single investments and monthly annuities. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Set RAMTOP Automatically | Progam automatically sets your machine up for machine code routines in high memory by moving RAMTOP. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Spelling Word Game | Program to help students learn spelling words. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| The Timex Sinclair Computer Made Simple and Mastering Your Timex Sinclair Personal Computer | Review of the two books. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Timex Makes Medical Waves | Medical science utilizes T/S power in a joint venture between MIT and Harvard Medical School, according to Stephen Burns, technical director of MIT’s Biomedical Engineering Center. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Timex: 16K TS2000 Scrapped; Software Deals | Timex will produce only 48K RAM versions of the TS2000, called the TS2068, says Timex spokesman Carl Folta. The $199 TS2068 will experience further delays, with release now set for the middle of September. | Timex/Sinclair 2000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| TS2068 Specifications | Preliminary specifications on the computer. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| User Friendly Legal Advice | Copyright as a tool to prevent piracy. | |
| Vendor Report and Notes | Updates from Barlog Software, Tom Woods, Biocal, Quicksilva, Memotech. | |
| Winky Board II | Winky Board’s designer bills it as a tape sound conditioner that lets you save bad tapes and copy any ZX/TS tapes, but Winky copies better than it saves. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| ZX/TS Users' Groups | ||
| ZX84 In the Works | Sinclair Research plans in mid-1984 to introduce the ZX84, a new microcomputer using Sinclair’s flat 8″ CRT and microdrives. |
