Update April 1989
Date: April 1989
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Articles
| Title | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| A Capslock Indicator for the QL | As a professional applications programmer, I generally work on either an IBM XT/AT or a UNIX workstation. When several years ago Sinclair USA offered me a great deal on some new QLs, I jumped at the chance to own a machine capable of multitasking and I ordered several. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| A QL Index Program | When you want to repeat something in Superbasic, the easy way is to englobe everything in a REPeat END REPeat loop, instead of GOTO. That's what I have done to your small program. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| A QL LList Utility | This routine may be of particular interest to those such as Bill and myself who do QL listing printouts in column format as master copies for publication. A simple OPEN #n,ser1: LIST #n: CLOSE #n will send a listing to the printer but unless your printer has right-margin setting or column/line setting, long listing lines will splatter the full width of the page. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Bob's Notebook: Renumber before merge, Sort in Tasword | Short utility programs: renumber before MERGE, sort lists in Tasword. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Break-In for CATs | Short routine for SafeDOS to SAVE or LOAD during CATalog. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| CAT Prints on Your QL | Make hard copies of file directories | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Customized Catalog Command for LKDos | This is an alternative catalog command that can be added to your programs or to use when modifying an existing program for disk. It only prints the selected filenames in a single column without any other info such as disk name of disk parameters. It works very well with windows such as the ones in LKdos or in a program like Art Studio that uses pulldown menus. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Larken Directory (Track 0) Repair | The track directory for the Larken disk system is located on track 0. This directory stores the data that is required by the system to locate and load the chosen file. On occasion the system is prone to corrupting the directory track, thus effectively causing the loss of all programs on the disk. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Low Cost Voice Recognition for the TS-2068 | With a new chip recently offered for sale through Radio Shack distributors and a few other parts, a speaker-independent word recognition circuit can be easily and inexpensively built. This article will describe how to build the circuit and interface it to a TS2068 via a joystick port. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Names in Profile | Patch to sort by last name, first name when the two are on separate lines in Profile. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| QL Mail File Hints | I received from Dick Wagner some comments and questions about the UPDATE listing and the issue disk/mdv version which suggested that the info I sent him might be helpful to other users also. Because it was written with the intention of demonstrating some elementary Super Basic programming concepts which can be modified and enlarged upon | Sinclair QL |
| QL Quirks | The article on page 17, UPDATE, Jan '89, by Oscar Sensabaugh presents a problem which has a solution. I am referring to the statement that Oscar uses TWO QL "work copies" in order to implement two printing devices, a QL and a Smith-Corona printer AND he has to make his choice of printing devices BEFORE starting. | Sinclair QL |
| QLAND_LORD: A Review | QLAND_LORD is designed to aid in the management of real estate. It provides complete detailed record keeping for all financial transactions, prints rent receipts, provides quarterly reporting and prepares the data required for IRS Schedule E tax reporting. | Sinclair QL |
| Serial Printers, The FDD 3000, and TOS | This article was written specifically for connecting a Brother EP-22 typewriter printer or the SMITH-CORONA DEVILLE III typewriter printer with the Messenger Module to the Zebra FDD 3000 Disk Drives. However, the article should be of help to anyone in connecting a serial printer to the TS 2068. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Sinclair Computing | Update Magazine has withdrawn its offer to allow SNUG to take over publishing the magazine. This was because of two reasons: 1. It did not appear that SNUG was yet sufficiently organized to take on the responsibilities. 2. Strong opposition to SNUG publishing a magazine developed from other sources. | Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Style Sheets, Formats and Macros | I create a document of my letterhead with design, margins, footer, Justification and tabs the way I like them. I have both my box number and my street address, together with a dummy date and salutation. | Sinclair QL |
| The Cable Column: Programming in Archive | Archive has a built-in procedural based language. The author walks through writing a few procedures. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| The Cambridge Z88 Computer | A Sinclair portable from England: a first impression mini review. | Cambridge Z88 |
| The FD-68 Update | The following list is just a few of the programs I find indispensable and which I strongly recommend you obtain. It is certainly not exhaustive, but are a few that I use almost daily. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| The Printer Revolution | Commentary about printer prices dropping. | |
| TS 2068 VARS Save and Reload: TOS Disk System Version | Modification to work with TOS. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| TS-2068 Data Input | This is an audacious attack upon the most famous weaknesses of the TS-2068, slow data input and poor screen editing. The result is a INPUT SECTION of programming that can be used for many purposes. Programmers have overcome the problems mentioned by developing their own independently running Machine Code in RAM. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Updates | THIS ISSUE and NEXT: Guess you’ve noticed the 17 point print size of this issue. This resulted in 35% more (BEEF) content, but this print is about as small as we dare go. A very painful task was to keep the page count down to 50. | Cambridge Z88, Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Z88 to Sinclair Transfer Link | Review of program/cable to transfer files from Z88 to/from QL. | Cambridge Z88, Sinclair QL |