Time Designs Magazine v3 n4

Description of Tim Stoddard’s “souped-up” ZX81: 64K RAM, improved heatsink, digital aquisition module (A/D, D/A, realtime clock) as encountered at the 1987 Midwest TS Computer Fest.

Report from the 1987 Midwest Timex/Sinclair Computer Fest, held May 2nd and 3rd, 1987, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

More than 45 dealers and user groups displayed their wares in over 6000 square feet of space; more than 700 attended.

A new “standard” for “fool-proof” typing of TS2068 program listings in magazines.

Sketchit-G is an artist type of program that exploits the many capabilities of the TS2068 computer to produce graphics of all sorts on the visual screen. These displays can be copied by the TS2040 printer and/or saved on tape for future recall and merging. The Timex computer has several resident functions that can be utilized…

TS2068 disk drive systems; QL news from the UK; LOAD loader; QL users plea; hurrah for Novelsoft; April fooler; new car shopper.

External keyboard for TS2068, sound booster, RGB interface and cartridge adaptor from John Mathewson. Utility tape for TS1000/ZX81/TS1500 from LST Software. PC-DRAW from MDM Enterprises. Compuserve announces GIF format. Desktop publishing program from Charles Stelding. Hardware/software to print to Commodore 1520 plotter. Archive utilties for QL.

Updates, bug report and version report.

Converts Zeus source code files into ASCII files for either Mscript or Tasword Two.

Extension to Sinclair Basic with 100 new or enhanced commands.

ZX Tic Tac Toe

High resolution graphics version of Blackjack using Silicon Mountain’s SCRAM Hi*Res Extended Basic and non-volatile RAM board.

Upgrade to 64K with a 43256 static RAM chip and some memory decoding.

Tutorial on numbering systems common with computers.

Program to convert between number bases.

Unusual Z80 instructions that don’t have a common theme or set.

Suggestiosn for using the program better.