Volume: 5
Issue: 9
Articles
| Title | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| Crypto | This sophisticated coder and decoder runs in only 2K. Use it for fun as a stand-alone program, or create a subroutine to make your datafiles unintelligible without the keyword. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Hall of the Fractal Hackers | Based on the Sep.84 Scientific American computer software issue, the first of these programs creates fractal patterns using the method described on page 156. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Headscan | Program to read and reveal the information from the 17-byte header of a program. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| National TS User's Network to Form | Don Barnard of TSS is forming a new club that promises to provide the following services for $30/year. In addition, the network will provide product registration to eliminate duplication of titles and provide dealers with information on sources of supply and discounts. Dealers and local user’s group leaders will be allowed to sell memberships once | |
| New Products and Services (Syntax v5 n9) | Peech II Productions supplies 2068 educational software titles ranging from VERBS to DRAWING priced under $10. For details write them: 6333 Parkman Pi, Cincinnati, OH 45213. Magic World Software is sole source for INVO-STAR inventory management system. Cassette data storage and menu-driven functions let you print pick lists & packing slips on your 2068 + | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Not Out of the Woods Yet | Tom Woods promises you will get PRO/File’s manual, but he is not yet finished. Work on the 100-page book proceeds regularly despite Tom’s new SyncWare News responsiblities. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| NY Out of Numbers - Zebra AC Changed | Zebra reports 1400 calls during the first 8 weeks of operation. This level of activity encouraged them to upgrade from the TRS-80 Model I to a Model 4 with 4 disk drives. | |
| Odd Reports From All Over | Computers, like humans, often give confusing answers, doing the best they can to tell you what’s wrong. | |
| Okay - So It Comes In Baggies | In our vendor reports last month, SYNTAX said Timex software doesn’t come in baggies. Yes it does, and honest stuff, too. Yes it does, and honest stuff, too. As Marty Warner-DuBay pointed out to us after getting a flurry of phone calls from her dealers for the licensed programs she sold in baggies, with photocopied | |
| Scroll Call - Everybody Up | Alter ZX/TS SCROLL commands to USR 2361 for the 2068, or USR 3582 for the ZX Spectrum or Emulator. | Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Sinclair Expands Eastward | Sinclair Research Ltd., is building up its presence in the Middle East, where its key markets are Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Gulf States. | |
| Vendor Report | PleasanTrees Programming continues to supply ZX/TS software and will introduce new 2068 titles. They are closing out the last copies of “Graphics A to Z,” see classifieds, this issue. You can get it later, but photocopied & 50% more costly. Our report from Canada proved sadly true: Gladstone’s Toronto store sold copied software that Games | |
| Wish I Were, Wish I Might | Timex and Dave Higgenbottom exchanged letters preliminary to deciding the terms on which they may want to talk. As of this writing, no negotiations or talks are taking place. Unofficially, we understand negotiations will be publicly announced if they actually come to pass. Right now, the field remains open. |
