| From the Chairman's Disk | Here it is November and for some of us it is the winter months that are beginning. Not to scare you people in the southern states away from this area but when I mowed the lawn for the last time in October I saw snowflakes coming down. | |
| How to Hack on the ZX Spectrum | Part 2 – Convetional Hacking Techniques | Sinclair ZX Spectrum |
| Input/Output | Letters from Bob Swoger, Fred Henn, Tim Swenson, David Lassov, Al Feng, Bill McKelvey, Dennis Smith, Rod Gowen, Robert Hartung, Jay Shepard, Ken Harbit, Wilf Rigter, Frank Davis, John Impellizerri, Matthias Jaap, Bill Collins, Garry Lancaster | |
| Lunch Hour Activity at Work | Review of Gerton Lunter’s Spectrum Emulator. | |
| More on QPC | [ This is where I goofed not once, but twice. Blame it on the computer! Editor ] For any who did a double-take …………… should have read: A line editor might also be used to create a file with an unnumbered series of commands such as these, although one type of QL editor I tried | Sinclair QL |
| QLATter | The QLATter front end program is being provided as freeware for QLAY users. QLATter will run on a QLAY emulation whose host PC only has 4 Meg. of memory. QLATter is based on QLAMBer. QLATter does not require TK2_EXTensions, and therefore lacks the functions which rely on TK2 code. | Sinclair QL |
| Recent QL Freeware | As a big fan of Freeware, I keep an eye on what Freeware comes out for the QL. I use the Internet to keep current with the European sources. A number of QL authors or QL BBS’s have web pages in the Internet. | Sinclair QL |
| The RMG Project | Attempt to organize effort to buy Rod Gowen’s stock of Sinclair items. | |
| VAL Function | One of the most powerful, and (Oh, Yes,) useful instructions of the Timex-Sinclair computers is the VAL function Unfortunately, it is also unique to the Timex-Sinclair computers. Te VAL function evaluates an arbitrary numerically-valued string. It only returns an error C, in the case that the string argument does not evaluate to a number. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| ZEX for the ZX81 | Hello again and this time a special treat for all ZX81 dinosaurs: It’s ZEX time for the ZX81, turning your ATARI joystick or IBM PC into a virtual ZX81 keyboard. The joystick can emulate any key or combination of keys on the old ZX81 membrane or ZEX will translate parallel ASCII to ZX81 characters for you. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |