Volume: 5
Issue: 8
Articles
| Title | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| 45-Player Computer Game Up In Miami | American Software Technology is testing an interactive, multi-user, real-time game where you interact with other players as well as the computer. | |
| BASIC NL Seeks More Money | In V.l, No.4, the publishers of this Timex-Sinclair related newsletter announced their interest in “an interested party (to) merge resources for the purpose of continued growth.” | |
| Computers and the Aged | Activities, Adaptation & Aging will publish “computer technology & the aged: implications & applications for activity programs.” | |
| Datasave - Files Without Programs | DATASAVE allows you to save a selected portion of memory to tape and then load it back again to any part of memory. Loading code with DATASAVE does not (of necessity) write over the program that you are running, so a program can load data from tape, manipulate it, and then save it back to | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Dear Editor | Complaints over proposed magazine price increase; altering Westridge modem software; retain memory contents after crash; bugs in JRC assembler/compiler. | |
| G Russell Developing New ZX/TS Products | Bill Russell tells SYNTAX he’s creating some new products for ZX/TS machines as well as for the 2068. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| K-Power to Fulfill TSU Subs | Subscribers to ECC’s ill-fated new venture into North America, Timex-Sinclair User, should have received postcards by now, offering K-Power to complete their subscriptions. | |
| LI Group Loads and Modifies TT | The Jun. 84 issue of L.I.S.T.ing, the monthly newsletter of the Long Island Sinclair Timex Group, contains full instructions for converting the Spectrum program Transylvanian Towers to operate on the 2068. | Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Linesum | Locating errors made in typing from printed listings is easy when they include a checksum for every statement, and you have Linesum loaded. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Maggie Bruzelius Leaves Sinclair | Facing an offer too good to refuse, Maggie became Director of Marketing for Alpha Software (Burlington, MA). One of the few growing software houses. Alpha sells an integrated package with database, spreadsheet, word processor & communications for IBM PCs, JRs & XTs “We’re steaming full ahead on business productivity software. Electric Desk is easy to | |
| New Products and Services (Syntax v5 n8) | Forth from Hawg Wild; Spectrum ROM kit; Multi-Draw 2068. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| No News About No Deal | No persons knowledgeable about the bulk sale of Timex inventory or any proposals from any potential buyers were available at Timex. Doug Smith verifies that all computer hardware inventory is sold, and a bulk buyer bought much of it. | |
| Sinclair Stops Production of ZX Accessories | No more RAMpaks and ZX printers will pour off assembly lines. Even the fabled ZX81, once made at the rate of one every 10 seconds, will now be produced only to order, and then mostly for export. | |
| Smart Term II Delayed | Upgraded performance for Westridge’s 2050 modem will have to wait a tad longer, but we do not know quite when. The death of Stuart Lotwin seems to have thrown the company into chaos—phone calls unreturned, information unavailable, and people answering the phone who seem not to care. | |
| Spectrum MC on 2068 | The Ocean State Users Group reports that they successfully entered and used Spectrum machine code programs from the UK magazine Your Computer. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Syncware News Reorganizes to Continue | Thomas B. Woods will take over publication of SyncWare News as volume 2 begins. The final arrangements call for the newsletter to go to a full-size, 16-page format with spinwriter type and remain bi-monthly. Fred Nachbaur will provide technical input, and Tom Bent will take over editorial chores. | |
| Syntax Labs Load Spectrum Software | SYNTAX tried following the LI user group’s instructions with 3 German programs from Profisoft. | Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Timex Tech Manuals Shipped | Timex shipped its initial stock of photocopied 2068 Tech Manuals and has orders for its scheduled print run. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| TS User NL (Yagsee) Folds | Yagsee Publications stopped producing TS User newsletter with the Apr. 84 issue. According to Derek Stubbs, Timex’s exit, followed by others, left a market without new customers as old ones moved to other machines. Renewals and subscriptions dropped, and Yagsee’s informal survey projected poor financial performance. | |
| Vendor Report | Byte-Back has nearly cleared up its backlog of 2068 modem orders; Ray Kingsley of Sinware believes that some of you may have purchased bootleg copies of an early version of HOT-Z with a bug in it; allegation of Gladstone copying software. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Zilog Policy Change | Zilog manuals are free from the manufacturer. | |
| ZX Spectrum Sold In China | Sinclair Research, Ltd. will sell 600 48K Spectrum computers to the computing and automation department of China’s North East Technical College. |
