Syntax/Syntax ZX80 v5 n6

Volume: 5
Issue: 6

Articles

  • TSTIS Products Catalog
    Timex/Sinclair Training Information Service sells this cassette not as a program so much as a catalog: each biweekly update lists over 180 different books, software, and hardware packages from major TS2068 suppliers.
  • TS2068 Personal Computer Technical Reference Manual
    If you need to know about how the CPU, ROM, RAM, sound chip, joysticks, keyboard, display hardware, cassette ports, or any other facet of the hardware works, or you need pinouts for any of the connectors inside or outside, or you need to understand how the ROM cartridge software gets loaded, or how the operating
  • Character Set Rotation
    This machine code routine allows you to rotate the character set in any of four directions, with or without mirror imaging it.
  • Dear Editor
    Question about back switching on the 2068; Firstloader problems; dedicated supporters.
  • VU-CALC
    Only the name of this program resembles the ZX/TS VU-CALC. This version occupies 37K when resident without any data. Due to its design, large tables use very little additional memory.
  • Music Library
    Music Library provides database management program with a convenient format for organizing your music collection.
  • Cantilever Beam Calculation
    This program calculates the deflection of a cantilevered beam loaded to maximum safe load at the free end.
  • Nigel Searle Shows QL at BCS
    Searle demonstrated the QL’s features and power to the General Meeting of the Boston Computer Society.
  • Easy Math
    Easy Math essentially turns your system into a calculator, with formulae storing ability and a 26 item user stack.
  • New Products and Services
    AFR Software announces ZX-Calc; Raedata announces Micro-ROOTs, a journal for people interested in genealogy.
  • Vendor Report
    Starburst Software has changed its name to Vessellware.
  • Syntax Survey Returns Flood In
    Early readings say that SYNTAX needs ZX/TS applications & utilities, for which we need submissions.
  • New Products in Development (Syntax v5 n6)
    SoftSync’s 2068 version of Arctic’s disassembler expected midsummer. Hawg Wild’s FORTH and graphics packages for 2068. And an expander for 2068s, expected to provide RGB & RS-232 output, disc controller, & 64K of addon memory. Plus a source of Chameleon ROMs.
  • AI Application to be Implemented in QL
    Sinclair Research just announced a medical advisor package now being written for the QL.
  • Smart Term II Package in Testing
    Those of you waiting for the advanced modem software should soon be able to get it for the 2050 modem.
  • Modem Change Improves Temp Performance
    SYNTAX had heard that 2050 MODEMS stopped at high temperatures, but the manufacturer says this problem no longer exists. Westridge, the maker, points out that the failures at 160F ambient were above the rated range anyway.
  • Centronics Printer I/F
    This interface plugs into the back of the TS2068 and provides a cable with a standard Centronics parallel printer connector.
  • Color Plot
    Use this program for drawing lines or circles anywhere on the screen. If you use a joystick, you can move, change color, and draw circles all at once.
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