Update October 1988 – Timex/Sinclair Computers

Date: October 1988

Articles

Title	Description	Computers
A Conglomeration of QL TIPS	Initializing Trump card and speed screen in boot programs; copy a complete micro drive cartridge with Trump card; back to business with the QL.	Sinclair QL
A Multi-Manager for SAFE DOS V2.52		Timex/Sinclair 2068
A QL Address File	A simple address database program presented as a tutorial.	Sinclair QL
A QL Printing Primer	Here is a little tutorial for setting up the QL to print to paper “without a word processor”. It does not do much but print un-formatted lines to the left margins as set at the printer.	Sinclair QL
A Screen Copy in Full Color and More	Review of interface and software to print in color on Okimate 20.	Timex/Sinclair 2068
About TOOLKIT II	Are there any QL owners who if they don’t have TK2, have not been strongly advised to get it? Article reprinted from BoSTUG Sinclair/Timex Newsletter.	Sinclair QL
Addition to TS-2068 Mail Merge	Update to program from October 1987 issue to print out the categories of an index after the program had sorted subjects by title.	Timex/Sinclair 2068
Arithmetic: An Arithmetic Drill Program for the QL	A program designed to aid children in learning arithmetic.	Sinclair QL
Easel Print	The program shows how to use the graphics dump provided with EASEL. Reprinted from ZX-Appeal.
Extra Memory	Discussion about using extra RAM in HOME and DOCK banks; errors in the EXROM that affect extended memory usage.	Timex/Sinclair 2068
Graphics Printer Trick	Readers who have tried any extensive printer graphics programming (not a screen dump) probably got discouraged with the amount of data required to key in.	Timex/Sinclair 2068
Helper: A SuperBASIC Program	A set of toolkit-like functions presented in menu format.	Sinclair QL
How Goes It, Update?	MAX DOS vs MS DOS vs QL DOS; SPDOS for Oliger; TS-2068 and Sinclair QL issue disks and micro drive dubbing; copyrights; QL support in this issue; meet some QL programmers; SINCUS programs; the North American Sinclair Society.	Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 2068
Larken RAMdisk for the TS 2068	I have found that for persons with two drives, the RAMdisk maximizes use of the second drive. And it reduces the number of keystrokes required to operate the Larken system.	Timex/Sinclair 2068
Letter from Dick Wagner	Letter about two programs from the editor of The Plotter, the newsletter of the CCATS User Group.
LPRINT CHR$ With Oliger Printer Driver	Readers who have programmed in BASIC with the OLIGER printer driver use LET/P=0 command to send data to their large printer. This command works fine for LPRINTing text and messages but not so good for printer codes.	Timex/Sinclair 2068
MScript Version 5.3 for Larken DOS	Mscript is a totally different word processor from Tasword. Once you get used to the protocol and press the right keys, Mscript is just as easy to use and a lot more rewarding.	Timex/Sinclair 2068
ON ERR Programming	The TS-2068 remembers ON ERR and the line number in an ON ERR statement well after the program line that contains the ON ERR GO TO statement has been executed. Then the first error condition forces the abandonment of sequential line read, and the line that is designated in the ON ERR statement is executed.	Timex/Sinclair 2068
OPEN #, CLOSE #, Channels & Streams - A Tutorial	Let’s delve into the mysterious realm of channels and streams and those two odd tokens OPEN and CLOSE. These two commands are extremely powerful and have many uses and yet there is nothing at all about them in the TS2068 User Manual except to say that “these and other commands like FORMAT, MOVE, CAT etc	Timex/Sinclair 2068
QL on Packet	One ham’s experience using the QL to communicate via packet radio.	Sinclair QL
QL RAM Extension	The accompanying circuit is an application of the TMS4500A as RAM extension for the 68008. This chip can drive a maximum of 128K dynamic RAM and provide all necessary signals.	Sinclair QL
QUILL Filesaver	This program reads a damaged QUILL file and converts it to a plain text file.	Sinclair QL
Refield Program	Program that allows one to add, restructure and delete fields in Archive databases.	Sinclair QL
Scan: An Archive Program	Program that allows one to see up to three selected fields displayed on a line for all currently active records.	Sinclair QL
Sinclair Milwaukee User Group	Our group is called Sinclair Milwaukee Users Group, also called SMUG. We were established in 1983 and work with all forms of the Sinclair Computers.
Sound Experimentor	Unlike most home computers, the QL has a very limited noise making capability. What there is can only be dragged out by using the enigmatic BEEP command. Reprinted from ZX-Appeal.	Sinclair QL
Telecommunications on the QL	Simple terminal program. Reprinted from the May 1988 issue of Nite-Time News, which itself was reprinted from the Data Expansion, the newsletter of the Dallas/Fort Worth group.	Sinclair QL
Telecomputing, Where We Stand	Ham radio operators and computer communication via packet radio.
The Cable Column	This featured column, by Bill Cable, starts with this issue.	Sinclair QL
The QL Beginner Course	If you have dug around as I have between the four sections in the back of the QL manual, you know that these books were not written in a 1, 2,3, sequence that lets you get right to it. I believe that, for this discussion, we should start with the printer itself.	Sinclair QL
The Round-Up: An Update Programming Tutorial	This is a program designed for UPDATE to demonstrate several abilities of dealing with numbers. FIRST, the “INT” function “ROUNDS DOWN” figures. All businesses do the opposite, ROUNDING UP to the nearest cent. This can make a busy department store quite a few dollars during a day’s operation.	Timex/Sinclair 2068
The Sinclair Z88 "Lap Top" Computer	So far as I can tell, there are only praise and enthusiasm coming from the owners of the Sinclair Z88. Frankly, I dont like the term “lap top”, as it seems to have a connotation of “tinker toy” which demeans the extraordinary capabilities of the Z88.	Cambridge Z88
The Trump Card	The Trump Card combines a disk interface, 768K of RAM, Toolkit II for SuperBASIC, screen dump, static and dynamic RAM disks and a dynamic printer buffer. Reprinted from ZX-Appeal.	Sinclair QL
Toronto Timex-Sinclair Users Club and SINC-LINK	The Toronto Sinclair User Club is one of the most active clubs in North America.
TS-2068 Extra Memory Recap	In January 1988, UPDATE began a series about extra memory. The first objective was to explore the ways and means of using existing extra memory hardware.	Timex/Sinclair 2068
Using the OS-64 Cartridge with TOS	How to boot TOS with the OS-64 cartridge installed.	Timex/Sinclair 2068
Why Use Archive?	Twelve reasons to use Archive.	Sinclair QL