Date: March 1984
Volume: 2
Issue: 3
Articles
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Do You Own a 2068? Or Are You Getting One? And Are You Interested in Machine Code Programming?TS 2068 Undoubtedly you would like to own a nice machine code loader, and a Simple disassembler, and a hex/decimal decimal/hex converter. Then you could easily follow and learn from Dick Scoville’s machine language tutorial which starts in this issue.
- 2068 Notes: A Tutorial on Machine Code ProgrammingTS 2068
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New Product News; Old Product OffersTS 1000 TS 2068 64K inside the case from Independence Research, ROMPAK programs; disk drives; CAI Instruments products and more.
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Flash! Flash! Flash! Bad News (& Good)TS 1000 TS 2068 News and rumors in the Timex community.
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8K of Very Low Power CMOS RAM In aWorld Class Computer For Only $40TS 1000 Hardware project Here is a method for installing a Toshiba TCS5S65 PL-15 Very Low Power CMOS SK X B RAM ($40 from Microprocessors Unlimited) in a TS1000 computer. Two of the great advantages of installation are the reduced power consumption (maybe as much as a 30% cut) and the absence of RAM pack wobble and crash. Who…
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Excellent Book by Fred Blechman: Timex Sinclair 2068 Beginner/Intermediate GuideTS 2068 Book review If I were selecting an interesting, affordable textbook suitable far beginners or intermediates, ages 10 to adult, this would be the book. It has a large number of program listing, very well explained, and the programs are interesting as well as useful. Most important is the careful explanations it’s also very well illustrated (even colored…
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Dunbar Aitkens: Silent Conversation and The Glass Plate GameTS 2068 Software review The Glass Plate Game is a conversational one. Idea cards and markers are used, and the challenge is to build patterns of thought by finding interesting connections between the cards.
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The Timex Sinclair 2068TS 2068 Book review Review of the book by Roger Valentine.
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The Timex Sinclair 2068TS 2068 Book review Review of the book by Roger Valentine.
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Games for Your Timex-Sinclair 2000TS 2068 Book review Review of the book by Peter Shaw.
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Ray Kingsley Takes a Look Inside a Timex Cartridge and Adds Other CommentsTS 2068 Inside [a Timex Cartridge] one finds three blobs of what looks like high quality tar on a circuit board. Apparently they must weld down the silicon wafers themselves, which gives them a pretty good proprietary grip.
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XForth Xchange v2 n1TS 1000 TS 2068 Full copy of the newsletter.
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A Review of Sinware's "STEP"TS 1000 Software review STEP is a program from Sinware. The ad says STEP is the ultimate debugging tool for programs in BASIC. I cannot say if this is true or not, But it sure comes close. STEP permits the execution of a program by several methods. The simplest is one line at a time. To use STEP, first…
- RAMPAGER: A ReviewTS 1000 Software review
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AC Circuit Analysis ReviewTS 1000 Software review This is the review of the AC CIRCUIT ANALYSIS program I promised you last month, but didn’t get a chance to do. The program is simply called AC CIRCUIT ANALYSIS PROGRAM and it functions like a miniature version of ECAP. Anyone who knows what ECAP is can skip to the next paragraph. For those who…
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Hex to Decimal, Decimal to HexTS 2068 Type-in program Short program to covert between the two bases.
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Foreign Correspondent Richard Describes the New Sinclair QL ComputerQL Sinclair has done it again. I expect you haven’t heard about his new computer – the QL – as it was only announced last week in Britain. The specification of the machine is very good and I will list some of the main points.
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Linda Banta of Banta Software Sends Two Programs to Tell if 2040 is ON or OFFTS 1000 Type-in program The REM statement is a short machine code routine which must be the first line of the program. The other lines can be anywhere and can be modified to give other messages.
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Making Your 2040 Printer Print Darker When Using the 2068 ComputerTS 2068 Type-in program Here’s a way of going through the display file and darkening up each dot, then printing out everything with COPY for a nice dark, hard copy image.
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64 Column ScreenTS 2068 Type-in program Here is a way of seeing the special 64 character mode in operation and convincing yourself that you need a high res RGB monitor or some such new addition.
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The March 4th Meeting and Bill McCotter's GiftWe will have the Timex modem on hand far a hands on demonstration, continue with the software sharing that went on last meeting, and we will come up with a group project that can be done in a one to two month time period. We will also have an auction of donated materials: Step, Rampager,…
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A Loading Aid That WorksTS 1000 Hardware review You may be interested in a TSZX loading aid which really works; further, it allows one to easily align ones tape heads (the latter has been the source of all my load problems with the TS1000): no tape recorder has been properly aligned when purchased.
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Phil Kegelmeyer's Edge Detection Programs Demonstrate Artificial IntelligenceTS 1000 Type-in program This is really a collection of short programs, reached by appropriate ‘GOTO’ commands. The first part of the program gives the appropriate line numbers names which are easier to remember, and dimensions the arrays.