| Bits & Bytes |
Regular community news column. Calls for member news submissions. Reports that the 1990 chairman election ended in a dead heat, resolved by a coin toss in favor of Ken Lutes. Discusses plans for a spring swap meet, including logistics challenges around the bank meeting room capacity (50 person limit) and the need for a Saturday/Sunday |
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| Certificate |
Enhanced and simplified version of the Certificate program originally on SINCUS library disk #102. Allows users to enter text and select one of 14 UDG border styles; prints to the Timex 2040 printer or via Oliger COPY/ for screen dumps. Armstrong rewrote the logic using Boolean expressions and condensed the UDG routine. Full program listing |
Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Editorial |
February 1990 editorial covering the unexpected decision by Quantum Levels magazine to refund unexpired subscriptions in cash. Wagner reflects on the decline of the T/S community, a pattern of abandoned magazines, and signs of renewal as younger users rediscover the TS1000. Notes new CCAT/S members who recently joined after purchasing TS1000s. |
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| Golden Goodies for 2068 Users |
Collection of advanced programming tips for the Timex/Sinclair 2068, compiled from the TIMELINZ newsletter. Includes: POKEing RAMTOP without destroying variables; calculating program elapsed time in seconds; inverting the screen display; determining if a number is even or odd (noting that the standard (-1)^N method fails on the 2068); a two-part machine code routine to save/recall |
Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| January Meeting Minutes |
Minutes of the January 1990 CCAT/S meeting. Key items: a coin toss resolved a tied chairman election in favor of Ken Lutes; discussion of rejuvenating the 2068 EPROM burner (referencing the Orfelt model and Oliger burner); planning for a spring swap meet (tentative date April 14); Tim Woods reporting his BBS was being upgraded after |
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| Larken Lines |
Regular column for Larken disk system users. Gowen solicits tips, hints, program conversions, and original programs from Larken users for future column installments, and encourages readers who enjoyed Dick Wagner’s disk manager article to contribute their own material. |
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| Library Notes |
Report on the CCAT/S club library of newsletters, books, magazines, and software tapes. Jack Armstrong and Bill Dunlop have taken on rotating data-entry duties, cataloging incoming material into Profile 2068 and Profile +5 databases on Larken disk. Gowen solicits volunteers to organize physical materials into binders and folders. |
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| Penetrator on Disk |
Instructions for converting the Beam Software/Timex Sinclair tape game Penetrator to disk format using a tape header reader to identify segment names, addresses, and byte counts. Provides loader programs for tape backup, the Oliger disk system, and the Larken disk system. Notes a limitation: the in-game tape-save of a custom background cannot be reliably redirected |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| SCREEN$ Calibration |
Tutorial on calculating the ratio between on-screen pixel dimensions and printed image dimensions for accurate screen-dump scaling on large dot-matrix printers. Provides BASIC code to plot a full-screen rectangle and a small inner rectangle, which are then measured and used to derive width and height scaling factors. Demonstrates applying those factors to plan a target |
Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
