Date: October 1989
Articles
| Title | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| A Half Dozen or More TOS Tools | This program was converted from Bill Jones “LKDOS TOOLS BY THE HALF DOZEN” published in the July issue. There are many differences between LKDOS and TOS. Rather than using RANDOMIZE USR 100, TOS uses an asterisk after the BASIC command to denote that it is a disk command. TOS has a serial printer driver and | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Another Approach to Extra Memory Banks | I put together a board using eight 43256 chips, giving 256K in eight banks. This article will describe how it works. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Cable Column | This issue of UPDATE initiates me as the QL Editor. I am happy to assist Bill Jones in producing this magazine so important to North American QL users. | Sinclair QL |
| Editorials and Announcements | Bill Cable is QL editor; advertising dropped, magazine is cooperative effort; seeking volunteers to publish Update. | |
| Graph of a Polynomial | Polynomials are power equations of the type most often written in the form of “ax^b + cx^d + ex^f + … +g = 0”, where a, c, e, and f are usually small whole, positive or negative numbers., and b. d. f. etc are interger exponents arranged in descending order of power. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Left Handed Ways of Working a Printer | Why not use my TS-2068 Daisy software to set-up special print pitches and Letter Quality mode, and then throw the the A/B switch over to the QL for printing? | Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Musings | ||
| Printer Interface | Short description of Miracle Systems Centronics Printer Interface. | Sinclair QL |
| Printers and Printer Control | The genesis of this work-up goes back to my early work with the Sinclair ZX-81, a computer designed “not to print”. Soon after the ZX-81 reached the “million mark”, cottage industry developed machine code “Printer Drivers”. From then until today, our Sinclair computer fans have not had a minimum diet of “How To Control Printers”. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Printing and Formatting: Commanding the Printer | This is one of many selected Daisy.B6 program routines that will be excerpted and given to Public Domain. These routines will be selected for their generic value. This one provides PRINTER CONTROL. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Psion Xchange | The four PSION programs are tied together in the XCHANGE with the ability to share information between the programs without going to all the hassle of changing mdvs or disks or importing and exporting. | Sinclair QL |
| Public Domain Libraries | Sinclair QL, Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| QL + MSDOS | The ability to access the many MSDOS programs is enticing. A look thru catalogs of 3 West Coast dealers in MSDOS Shareware programs certainly proves the point of the availability of a vast range of programs at very reasonable prices. | Sinclair QL |
| QL Networking | Claims abound for computer hardware and software. The original claims for SINCLAIR’S QL (aka ZX-83) promised the capability of a PEER/PEER NBTWORK because the QL had been designed for use in a “business” environment. The two ‘NET’ ports bear witness to this intent. | Sinclair QL |
| QL Numbers Into Text | This program converts a number (entered as numerals) into an equivalent word string. | Sinclair QL |
| QL to Z88 Linkup | Cambridge Z88, Sinclair QL | |
| String Slicing, Coercion & Concatenation | String concatenation is a subject that can’t easily be covered in a vacuum. It must include string slicing and coercion as well. | Sinclair QL |
| The Cambridge Z88 | Discussion of features and capabilities. | Cambridge Z88 |
| The QL's Forbidden Byte | Those of us who “cut our computer teeth” on the ZX80/81 learned quite early about the caveat that accompanied any use of CHR$ 118 when machine code was stored in REMs. Like the Cheshire cat, the line could disappear right before your eyes till nothing was left but the grin! The problem was that this | Sinclair QL |
| Window Defining: A Program, Part II | In this article we will write and discuss the different functions that will be used. SuperBASIC gives us the ability to write very versatile, many variable functions which can do more than merely return a number. | Sinclair QL |
| Word Perfect Power with the Z88 | Editing Z88 documents with Word Perfect. | Cambridge Z88 |
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