Timex Sinclair User n3

Volume: 1

Issue: 3

Articles

Software Blues
Poor software experiences; discussion of rating system in the magazine.
LettersZX81 TS 2040
On UK imports; overworked ZX81; reader service cards; support from South Carolina; question about RAM pack compatibility; on the 2040; pricing RAM packs; Cosmos revisited.
Aliens earn top marks (3D-Orbiter)TS 1000 Software review
Review of the game from Melbourne House.
T/S Goes To CampTS 1000
Computing is fast becoming the latest thing in both day and overnight camps, and many camps across the country already include it among some of their activities.
Eat the dots ... (GULP)TS 1000 Software review
Review of the Pac-Man clone game from Mindware.
Deja-vu (ZX Scramble)TS 1000 Software review
Review of the game from International Publishing and Software.
Sleeper (Demolisher)TS 1000 Software review
Review of the game from Intercomputer.
Fast Aliens (Galaxia)TS 1000 Software review
Review of the game from Artic Computing.
Usborne books are delightful & funTS 1000 Book review
Review of Understanding the Micro, Computer and Video Games, Computer Spacegames and Computer Battlegames.
Computerized Filing CabinetTS 1000 Software review
Review of ZX-Data Finder by Thomas B. Woods.
More than Electronic BabysittingTS 1000
The man behind the camp program at Wesleyan College in Fort Worth, doesn’t Iike to make predictions. But one fact in the future of education Dr. Mark Wasicsko is sure of: computers.
Useful programming tipsTS 1000 Book review
Review of The ZX81/Timex Pocket Book by Trevor Toms.
Glimpse of the Series 2000TS 2000 TS 2068 Hardware review
To give you a head start on the Timex Sinclair 2000-series color computer, Fred Blechman explains how to use the keyboard of its prototype, the Spectrum from Sinclair.
Let this software help you run your homeTS 1000 Software review
Reviews and compares four programs specifically designed to help manage money; one to set home files straight (birthdays, recipes, phone numbers, and so on) and one full 16K program just for all those bonus coupons that accumulate.
The 2040: Efficient, Fast and AffordableTS 2040 Hardware review
Review of the printer.
Simple ways of sorting dataTS 1000 Type-in program
How to program and comparison of sorts: bubble and shell.
DiceTS 1000 Type-in program
Simple program to roll six-sided dice.
Binomial DistributionTS 1000 Type-in program
Display shows a ball falling through a triangular matrix of pegs. When the ball hits one of the pegs, it rebounds to the left or right, entirely at random.
Star GatesTS 1000 Type-in program
Guide each ship through star gates to escape the impending super nova.
SquashedTS 1000 Type-in program
Variation on Breakout.
Sharp ShooterTS 1000 Type-in program
You are the black-hatted villain confronting a posse of lily-livered bounty hunters.
KingdomTS 1000 Type-in program
Manage a rural realm, attempt to increase personal wealth and protect your people from flood, famine and the depredations of the ruthless local banditry.
Flash CardTS 1000 Type-in program
Program to make flash cards into a game.
MinotaursTS 1000 Type-in program Downloadable
Maze game: avoid the hungry minotaur.
Circuit training helps to build good charactersTS 1000 Hardware project
Expansion to allow user-defined characters.
British prices fall againZX Spectrum
Sinclair Research in Britain maintained its reputation when, with no more than a brief press statement, announced a massive cut in the prices of the two versions of Spectrum.
Timex introduces the 1500TS 1500
Also from Timex: a new printerTS 2040
Timex responds
Comdex '83
Now in CanadaTS 1000
TX Computers Canada (the official name of Timex Computers in Canada) will be launching the TS1000 in Canada this summer.
Microdrives for T/S Machines?
Sinclair Research is close to announcing the launch date for the Microdrive.
6 Keyboards Compared: Which is the one for you?TS 1000 Hardware review
Add-on keyboards are available for your T/S — but which one should you buy?
Tips for BeginnersTS 1000
Warning: using a T/S1000 can be habit-forming.
Hot under the MicrochipTS 1000
Has your T/S1000 ever crashed? If so, chances are it was due to overheating – probabyl the most common cause.
Bulletins
Updates from Hawg Wild, Silicon Valley North, Daydesign, T-S Systems, Intercomputer, Mindware, Micro Developments, DK’tronics, MicroSync, Florida Creations, Len Harmon, Filesixty, Data-assette.