| 2068 Software Review: The Great Graphics Show |
THE GREAT GRAPHICS SHOW is just that. There are 18 menu selectable routines which provide such items as a simulated oscilloscope with a slowly rotating“Lazy Joe” Pattern Plus the option to display other Patterns by operator input. The most spectacular routines are those which display various forms of graphs. Game routines include a touch-typing game, |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Bank Switching for the TS 1000, Part 4 |
THE NONVOLATILE MEMORY BANK After constructing the two 16K banks described last month, and experimenting with them, I felt the need for at least some permanent (nonvolatile). Loading a full 64K of memory from tape can be tedious, even with SDS or ZXLR8. So I decided to make one of the four 16K banks a |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Book Review: More Uses For Your Timex/Sinclair 1000: Astronomy on Your Computer |
The Burgesses have gathered twenty wonderfully elaborate programs and rewritten most of them for Sinclair 16K BASIC. The programs, divided among the four general categories of time, the planets, the moons, and general tutorial, are all available on tape from the authors, without whose permission storage of the programs is illegal. Some of the astronomically |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Book Review: Programming Your Timex/Sinclair 1000 in BASIC |
This book is so understandably written and logically organized that it should have been included in the Timex 1000 package. For those like me, who found the User Manual too often abstruse and lacking in detail, Mr. Eisenbacher has provided a veritable Rosetta Stone. Each chapter ends with a summary of the new words and |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Book Review: The Working Timex Sinclair 2068 |
“The Working Timex Sinclair 2068” is a very commendable effort to supply the 2068 user with a “library” of useful programs. Each of the six chapters covers a different area of usage. A rather unique index references module numbers rather than page numbers, as all the programs are in the “modular” style. Chapter 1 contains |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Byte-Back MD-2B Modem |
The Byte-Back MD-2B is an excellent choice for a modem for the Timex Sinclair computers. It plugs right onto the back of the 1000, 1500, and ZX81 computers. There is an extra kit you can buy that adapts the MD-2B to the TS 2068. It is an additional $19.95. Byte-Back has been making modems for |
Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Enter |
Unfortunately, this issue of T-S Horizons is late, thus the July/August cover. Of course I-S Horizons is intended to be published monthly. We hope this will be the last time that we have to “double up” for an issue. And all of you who are subscribers rest assured that our $12 subscription rate is for |
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| Game Review: Bugaboo |
First, one must accept the concept that a flea is worth saving. If the philosophical connotations can be resolved into a positive decision, one can then enjoy the challenge of assisting poor “Bugaboo the Flea” in his attempts to to escape from the perilous environment into which he has fallen. |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Games for Your Timex-Sinclair 2000 |
Games for Your Timex-Sinclair 2000 by Peter Shaw is a collection of 23 games that utilize both the sound and the high-resolution graphic capabilities of the Timex computer. Even if you aren’t a “video Junkie”, some of the programming techniques used by Shaw are worth looking into for use in other programs. Shaw has successfully |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Guest Editorial |
Timex Computerists: Outlook Bright for New Products and Services. Immediately after TIMBX quit the computer business, it was kind of hard to tell where TIMEX-Sinclair computing was going in the United States. For computer owners, it was a matter of worrying about where you’d get support for the computers you had bought. For businesses like |
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| How a Compiler Works |
A compiler is a program that takes a high level language like BASIC and converts it to machine code. The miracle of a compiler is that people who just have a slight knowledge of machine code can write complex programs that execute much faster than ordinary BASIC programs. The compiler I have written is itself |
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| In Touch With The World |
“Imagine pressing a key on your computer and being in touch with…” the WORLD! This is a slight paraphrase of an ad that Timex released when the TS 2068 was introduced. According to that ad, any T/S computer could be used to access any number of national and regional databases, and local BBSs (Bulletin Board |
Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Reviews For The Non Programmer |
I’ve been struck by lightning and in spite of Zenkar’s diode (see ad) a fuse, a circuit breaker and a grounded outlet, I blew a chip. I think it was the SCL (part of it worked), which brings me to the subject the proper power supply. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Rotating Globe Routine for the TS 2068 |
The following program was created by Mihaly Grell of the Capitol Area T/S User Group (C.A.T.S.), P.0.Box 725, Bladdensburg, MD 20710, in a recent issue of their newsletter. Grell’s program demonstrates the graphics capabilities of the TS 2068. |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Telecommunications for Beginners |
To communicate with another computer, you need a device called a MODEM. There are 2 types of these devices. One is called a DIRECT CONNECT modem, and the other is called an ACCOUSTICAL modem. The direct connect modem plugs directly into the phone line. The accoustical modem is the type you saw on the movie, |
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| The Kleen Line Modem Protector |
You’ve probably heard of how power line surges, spikes, glitches, and brown outs can interrupt and even damage your computer system. Well, lightning and phone switching gear can create the same or similar conditions on your phone lines. The result could damage your modem and computer system. |
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| The Sinclair Information Network (S.I.N.) |
The Sinclair Information Network is designed to be a marketplace for ideas and information concerning all of the Sinclair and Timex/Sinclair computers. Formed by Mark L. Fendrick, owner of (and author for) Markel Software, the SIN was born out of frustration felt when Timex exited the computer field, and the major Sinclair related publications followed. |
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| Timex/Sinclair User Bulletin Board |
Zebra Systems has provided T-S Horizons with the information below on a bulletin board service especially for Timex and Sinclair users. Future plans include providing programs that modern users can download into their own system and save for their own use. |
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| TS2068 Programming Tips |
Our thanks to Games to Learn By for letting us borrow these tips from their Timex Survivors Flyer (P.0,Box 575, 2 South Street, Williamsburg, MA 01096). 1st + 2nd Displays You can use this routine to move the Function Dispatcher so you can utilize the 2nd Dispatcher. After the lst use, you then have to |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| WORM, Word Processor for the TS 1000, Part 3 |
Here is the last installment of the word processor program for the TS-1000 computer. It includes all of the machine codes which begin at address 18455 (Line 4 REM). Last month (June issue), I gave you the bulk of the program that lies in REM lines 2 and 3, There were quite a few codes |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
