The Data Expansion
Publisher(s):
Timex/Sinclair Users Group Of Fort Worth
Newsletter of Dallas/Fort Worth area user groups.
| Title | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| 1K ZX81 Frogger | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| 2068 Program Notes | I have received some programs for the 2068 that some members may not know about. These are programs on disc from Jack Dohany. They are custom made to your input device (disc, tape, or whatever) and to your type of printer. This information you give him when you send in your order. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| 2068 Tape Labels | Program for printing J-cards for cassettes. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Downloadable, Type-in program |
| 2068 to QL Transfers | Methods of transferring files between the two computers. | Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| 32K RAM Expansion Cartridge | What is this 32K RAM Expansion Cartridge? What can it be used for? These are obviously the type of questions many of you have! So. let me tell you about it! David Hildebrand, a good friend for over 10 years now, is the man behind this product! David and I (Stan Lemke) like to discuss | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| A 2068 Disk Interface Standard | Larken’s “Extended Basic” cartridge proposed as a standard across multiple disk systems. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| A Change in the FWKUG MBBS | There has been a change in the FWKUG MBBS. Ron Lane, Sysop, has been running his board on a Kaypro with a dual 44Meg hard drive. Ron acquired some new software called ROS from a programmer in New Mexico. It is extremely fast and very closely resembles the old BBS that we are all used | |
| A Change in the FWKUG MBBS - Continued from July Issue | ||
| A Commitment - What It Takes | We all know of busy people who get a lot of things done and accomplish a lot of things. They seem to be successful at almost everything they decide to do. We feel inferior to these people because they seem to have so much talent. But is it really talent or is it something else? | |
| AERCO FD-68 EPROM 9.0 | Overview of the improvements in v9. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| AERCO RP/M and Handling Libraries | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| AERCO Still There | I would like to try and clear up some mis-understandings I have been hearing about for sometime now. The people that I am talking about are Jerry and Til Chamkis, whom most of you know as AERCO. I have been hearing from many people that AERCO has deserted us and are working with the Atari | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| AERCO V.9 RP/M System | І have run into trouble, as many of you know, using RP/M and attempting to read disks for the Morrow MD-3 which formats to 80-tracks. When I found out a number of things about this system, I remembered that I had a certain program that should be able to tell me all about the system | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Aliens: The Game Not The Movie | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Alternate Character Set for the Spectrum or the 2068 | I know that many of you get very tired of seeing the normal character set for the Timex and Sinclair computers. Then you design a different character set to use to make it look more readable or at least more interesting. I found this оnе іn an old ZX COMPUTING and thought that it looked | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Amstrad Demonstration from Danny Reed of EDU-TRON | First off, Fred Andreucci introduced us to his other two partners and passed out some hand-outs concerning the Amstrad PC 1512. He then began the demonstration by giving us some background on Amstrad and the PC1512. The distributor for Amstrad is in Longview which makes it much easier for service and delivery here in the | |
| Amstrad Getting Stronger | When I picked up the MARCH 1988 issue of the COMPUTER SHOPPER from my mailbox, what did I see on the cover but the new AMSTRAD PC 1640 snd a banner proclaiming “SIR CLIVE RETURNS WITH NEW LAPTOP”. Of course, the first thing I read was the review of the Amstrad 1640. Reviewer Rich Fields | |
| Amstrad Offers Low-Cost PC Clones for U.K. | The Brentwood, England, company’s long-awaited PC-1512, available in eight configurations starting at about $614, is based on Intel’s 8086 microprocessor running at 8 MHz and comes with several software packages. | |
| An Interview with Jerry and Til Chamkis of AERCO | I took a short vacation to Austin. A morning to drive down in. The rest of the day, that night, and the next day were spent in Austin. Spend that night and drive back to Fort Worth the next morning. (I said it was short!) I took my wife and two daughters. (Sо I was | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| An Open Letter from E. Arthur Brown | I’m sorry the Timex stuff appears to be getting low coverage in our catalog. Sales have been petering out for 2 years now and when I’m mailing the catalog to 25,000 ST and PC people and only 5,000 Timex people, it just doesn’t pay to have the Timex stuff take up very much room in | |
| An Open Letter from Jack Dohany of Jack's Fairware | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Another SCREEN$ Utility | Copy a block of the screen. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Ask Chuck | Revised version of a disk catalog program. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Ask Chuck | Reader questions about MS-DOS commands. | |
| Ask Chuck | Questions about BASICA and MS-DOS. | |
| Ask Chuck | Chuck gives advice on MS-DOS questions. | |
| Ask Chuck | Chuck Dawson answers questions about MS Basic. | |
| August Meeting Notes | The meeting was called to order by our President, Chuck Dawson. Some af the more frequent attending, Gene Pickens and our secretary, Charles Stelding, were unable to attend. It was good to see Frank Bouldin up and around after his surgery from last month. He seems to be back to his “old” self. Also back | |
| BBS Programs | I am very proud to announce that the download Section on the FUKUG MBBS & PSDE for the Timex/Sinclair computers now has 41 programs for downloading via XMODEM protocol. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Beach Attack | Reprinted from ZX Computing. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Benchmark | In the days of David AhI’s Creative Computing, they occasionally published a test of computation speed and accuracy. The algorithm is repeated here in Sinclair Basic. Timex/Sinclair computers are not speed demons, but they are not bad as number crunchers. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Bill on MScript | I wanted to try backing the form in my printer, but the Gemini 10X doesn’t have the capability. If there is anyone out there with that capability, give it a try and let me know the results. I might just have to get that printer. A couple of hints for MSCRIPT IF you write a | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Boot | Here is a boot program that I use оп all of mу discs. Loading programs is as simple as touching a few keys. No more typing errors to worry about. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Cartridge Copy | The hardware modification for copying cartridges to disc is now available from AERCO. You can make the mods yourself as shown іп the illustration (hich cannot be done here, but it is very clear), or for $15 AERCO will send you the assembled chip and switch and all you have to do is install it. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| CATXRF Rev 1.2 | Features of Rev. 1.23 | |
| Chairmans Chat | Notes from chairman of the Dallas user group. | |
| Changing Tasword II Screen Colors | Reprinted from Sinclair User, May 1985. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Chunk Enable Update | In the first issue of THE FD-68 USER I stated that enabling any of the lower 4 chunks of the Dock bank would result in a crash. This was an obvious error that slipped through undetected until after the newsletter went to press. It should have stated that only the first chuck (chunk 0) of | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Computer Music? | Recorded and transcribed from an episode of “The Prairie Home Companion’, broadcast hv American Public Radio. | |
| Continue.com | I found a fascinating article by David Barry from the St. Louis Osborne Group on the CP/M memory map and how various Iocations are used. It was even simple, enough that I grasped it the first time! Did you ever want to get a directory while in the middle of something like PIP or COPY? | |
| Conversation - Mail Bag | I read the “new” ASK CHUCK column for this month. I was curious about the DEL.EXE or ERA.EXE which is similar to my DEL..COM and ERA. I, too can call up only certain files on the directory if I ask for those. Then I can erase them all at one time, or one at a | |
| CP/M The Lingua Franca of Operating Systems | Republished from IN Cider. | |
| CP/M The Lingua Franca of Operating Systems | Reprinted from IN Cider. | |
| CP/M Tips | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| CP/M Utility - OBL4.COM | Recently I downloaded some different software. І have not quite tested it out, but it definitely sounds very good. For those of you that have to be rather ‘stingy’ with your paper, because paper is not ALL that cheap, this could be the program for you. How would you like to get all of those | |
| Dallas Timex/Sinclair Amstrad Users - April Meeting | Please come to the April meeting for a demonstration of the Amstrad PPC 640 Portable Personal Computer. Priced at less than $1000, the new laptop is as full-featured as any Desktop PC compatible, right down to the no-compromise keyboard. Yet you can run it from the cigarette lighter in your car, as well as (by | |
| Dallas Timex/Sinclair/Amstrad Users' Group Chairman's Chat | ||
| Directory Track Reader | The following program was written on an old model Zebra Disk Drive. Owners of the-newer FDD 3000 may wish to run this program and report on the results. I don’t know whether there are any software differences between the two models. The disk drive controller formats the 3 inch disk into 40 tracks, numbered 0 | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Discussion on Computers | Discussion about computers other than the Timex/Sinclair. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| DR Assembler Plus Tools Product Brief | I have recently been in contact with Digital Research concerning some of the available products that can enhance your use of the AERCO RP/M system. Many of these products can be purchased for MS-DOS as well as CP/M. Some of the products need a larger RAM area than we are allowed on the AERCO RP/M | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Drop-Down Menus - Listing | 1 took the time to key in this program and it is already set up to work with TIMACHINE for compiling. I have not compiled this BASIC program as yet, because I cannot get it to work properly. All of it is sound enough, I have even run the TRACE program trying to find out | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Editor's Mail Call | Letters from Ed Grey. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Editor's Mailbag | Letters from Tim Petersen and Peter Fischer. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Editor's Mailbag | Correspondence with Pete Fischer about terminal programs for CP/M. | |
| Editor's Mailbag | ||
| Editorial | [ rarely ever get to give an editorial in the newsletter. Sometimes when I write my weekly Timex column for StarText, I get off on a tangent right at the first, but rarely do I ever just stop and let you know what іs on my mind. l would like to give it a try | |
| Editors Mail from Ed Grey | Ed uploaded TYPETAS.TXT to the BBS. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Electret Scientific Company's Musician Royale | Musician Royale is a comprehensive TS 2068 program for transcribing, composing, playing, and saving music. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Elliam Associates CP/M & MS/PC-DOS Software | I was perusing through the back of some of the latest COMPUTER SHOPPER’s looking for some information on some CP/M programs and where to find them. One of the places that I found was Elliam Associates in California. I was pleased to see a number of the things that I would like to acquire for | |
| EZDSZ - Z80 Disassembler | I have just recently received a Z80 Disassembler and manual from Elliam Associates for the AERCO RP/M system I am running. I am intending to use much of this with programs that might be ‘patched’ to run with this system, but I needed a better way to get into the programs than DDT. The EZDSX | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Fairware News | THE PURGE So who’s left? Did you get a MAC II for Christmas? I’m updating my mailing list. If you want to remain on it, please say so. NEW CATALOG I’m not budgeted to do mass-mailings of my catalog. It gets revised frequently. Whenever you want the latest FAIRWARE catalog, please send $1.00 and a | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| FASTAPE | Notes on using the program and program listing. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| FASTAPE | Introduction to using the tape load/save routine. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Findex News | Updates on Findex compatibility issues. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| FOG (First Osborne Group) is the Link Between You and Your Computer | Describes the benefits of belonging to the group. | |
| FOG Letter and Answer | I have been a member of FOG since Derember of 1987. І am writing to tell you that I am very pleased with the FOGHORN publication. I hope that I am able to do some writing for you since I have been publishing the Fort Worth Timex/Sinclair User Group’s neusletter for the last three years. | |
| Fort Worth October Meeting Notes | The meeting convened jointly ın ROOM 3052 of the INFOMART at 1950 Stemmons Freeway in downtown Dallas. The next meeting is scheduled for November, 14, 1987 in, MEETING ROOM ‘A’. The meetings are on the second Saturday ọf every month from 1:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. The meetings are open to all who wish to | |
| Fractals Continued | By now, ve have most of the program defined. We are missing some parts, but.. we can at least get a start on the program. Before we go too far, let’s review! | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Free Programs From Shortwave Radio | Basicode-transmitted over the air on shortwave! By Raido Netherlands, the independent international short wave station of the Netherlands. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| From the Editor's Mailbag and Information from the FWKUG MBBS & PDSE | I thought you might like to see just what takes place many times on the FWKUG MBBS & PSDE that affects the Timex/Sinclair users and modem users here in the Fort Worth/Dallas area. Also some of the information and files that get placed on the board for the benefit of all of us. (Our downloadable | |
| From the Editor's Mailbox | Messages extracted from the Fort Worth BBS. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Further Realizations about CP/M | During this month I have, upon occasion, found myself coming across some problems and not being able to figure them out. But, little by little, I am using my computer and learning a bit more about using the CP/M disk system. I had asked Charles Stelding and Chuck Dawson about how you go adding the | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| FWKUG MBBS & PSDE | I certainly hope that many of you have been on line at one time or another with this BBS that is between Fort Worth and Dallas. Many of the downloads in the TIMEX AREA are from the Fort Worth group, but others have been added from time-to-time by people like Ed Grey. It also has | |
| Graphics - Fractals | Just about all computers today support some form of graphics, be it black and white, or full blown multi-million color versions. Graphics are really quite simple. The basics are the same no matter what you use, that’s what I’m going over іп this issue. If your computer does not support graphics, then your printer probably | |
| Graphics Programs - Comparison | Compares Pixel Draw II, Artworx, and Tech-Draw. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Hex/Dec Converter - Maybe? | Some people will try to write anything provided that it is very short. Mel Goodman of Leeds has come up with the very shortest Hex/Dec converter ever. | Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Type-in program |
| I Have Moved to the FD-68 Completely | I now, thanks to the quick reply from Jack Dohany, have the MSCRIPT AERCO disk, version 5.3. This is just like my old MSCRIPT, but improved. There is another version on the way, but you will have to wait for that one-I will explain in a short article in this column. I also, thanks to | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Interrupts | А discussion of interrupts was a bit too advanced a subject to cover in detail in my book ‘Introduction to 2068 Machine Code,” since the beginning student has enough other things to learn, so here is a short discussion of them. Reprinted from SMUG Bytes, August 1986. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Jack Dohany - MScript Version 5.3 | I am temporarily “out of business”… my regular business (making wooden toys) is leaving me NO time for computing. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| JRT Pascal | Using JRT Pascal with RP/M on an AERCO FD-68. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| JRT Pascal | The last time I said that we needed to get going on the main module of the program, but it was going to take more than I thought it would. Now I have decided exactly what I want in the MENU module, which is part of the main module. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| JRT Pascal - Finally, a Program | When writing in Pascal, you should use what is called the. *top-down” design method using modular building blacks. The top-down method is building your programs in modules using levels of work. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| JRT Pascal - Programming Language | I said that last time we might actually begin writting a program in PASCAL using the JRT PASCAL system for CP/M and the AERCO RP/M disk system. What I am going to do is to actually “walk” you through a demo program, and a very simple one, that will show you what actually takes place | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| JRT-Pascal | Review of the compiler, as run on an AERCO RP/M system. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Knock, Knock ... | Converting data from Pro/File 2068 to MScript. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Larken Disk Tips | George Chambers, of the Toronto TS Group offered this short program that he saw in SINC-LINK, May/June 88 issue newsletter. It’s used to erase a number of files on the Larken TS 2068 disk system. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Letter from Ed Grey to SNUG | Now that the smoke has cleared and you have had time to evaluate the Orlando Winterfest, I would be interested in your assessment of the affair. Information regarding the Winterfest is scarce here on the west coast. 1 have heard, through 75-2068 UP-DATE and other sources, that a Sinclair Northamerica Users Group was born in | |
| Letter from Joan Kealy | ||
| Letter from Pete Fischer | I received a pleasant surprise about Thursday of last week, Pete Fischer, co-author of the Telecommunications Guide for Timex Computers, sent me three disks and a letter. | was pleased with all three disks, and was very interested in what he had to say. Some of it you will now find out: Hello David, I | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Mail Call | Messages from Timex Sinclair enthusiasts, sent via email on BBS. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Mailbag - Editor's Mail | I received some interesting things in the mailbag this week. I have been on the Kaypro board keeping in contact with our old friend Charles Stelding and Ed Grey. I had asked Charles if the AERCO system would really READ a Morrow MD3 format as it is advertised to do. It is nice to have | |
| MBASIC Blues | ||
| MBasic Tips | Here are two hints and two routines which you might find useful. | |
| Meeting Notes - April | ||
| Meeting Notes - August | The meeting convened in MEETING ROOM ‘A’ of the Fort Worth Public Library at 300 Taylor Street in downtown Fort Worth. The next meeting is scheduled for SEPTEMBER 10. 1988 in MEETING ROOM ‘A’. The meetings are on the second Saturday of every month from 1:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. The meetings are open to | |
| Meeting Notes - December | ||
| Meeting Notes - January (FW) | The meeting convened in MEETING ROOM ‘A* of the Fort worth Public Library at 300 Taylor Street in downtown Fort Worth. The next meeting is scheduled for MARCH 12, 1988 in MEETING ROOM “A”. The meetings are on the second Saturday of every month from 1:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. The meetings are open to | |
| Meeting Notes - July | This was quite a surprise meeting. I was not positive who was going to show up so I requested that our president, Chuck Dawson, and myself start making phone calls to make certain that some of the members were going to be there and not playing hookey. As it turned out, this was the meeting | |
| Meeting Notes - June | ||
| Meeting Notes - March | The meeting was the joint meeting of the Fort Worth and Dallas Timex/Sinclair groups. The Fort Worth contingency made it to the Dallas Infomart at approximately 1030 A.M., the starting time of the Dallas meeting. There was a confusion of time elements for the joint meeting. We (Chuck Dawson, Frank Bouldin, and myself, David Baulch) | |
| Meeting Notes - May | ||
| Meeting Notes: Fort Worth | We had a very small turnout, possibly because this was the first time in a while that the weather was so nice. Ellis Saunders was unable to make the meeting because of a prior commitment. Others have just been lax. in attendance. Chuck Dawson started us on the discussion section of the meeting anyway. Fred | |
| Megatext-Spectrum | Large text demo. Originally published in Your Spectrum, Sept. 1987. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Memscan | This is a short machine code routine that displays a memory map of the computer. It is 2068 specific, but can easily be altered for the Spectrum with two POKEs. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Modem Programs Available on the FWKUG & PDSE | Programs for uploading binary files available. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| More AERCO RP/M Utilities: SUBREN | Have you even wondered how other computer owners get their machines to do something when they do not have BASIC in the ROM like the Sinclair and Timex does. Where do you put the command line? The answer is by using a utility like SUBREN. All this does is chain a number of programs or | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| More Customized MScript Versions Planned | Customized MScript Version 6 is still in the works. In some, ways it’ll be a whole new program. I’m in the process of totally re-writing the Mscript machine code… not an easy task. I hope to find and correct some of the quirks and inconsistencies that have existed in Mscript since the beginning. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| More from the Editor's Mailbag | These were inadvertently left out from the original MAILBAG. I think they needed to be added in. I, again, am attempting to show many people how busy and informative the FWKUG MBBS & PSDE really is. When you have this type of a BBS in your area, I highly suggest that you patronize on a | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| More Mail! | Correspondence with Ed Grey on terminal programs and others on CP/M topics. | |
| More Mailbag For The Editor | ||
| More on RP/M from AERCO | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Move-It: An Intercomputer Communication System | MOVE-IT allows you to communicate with other micro, mini, and main-frame computers, as well as information utilities and bulletin boards. MOVE-IT also enables you to link-up to the Telex network for instant world-wide communications. MOVE-IT also allows your computer to act like a ‘dumb’ terminal. | |
| MScript-Pro/File, Pro/File-MScript Data File Interchange | Like most projects of this sort, this entire undertaking is as much the product af other minds as it is of my own. Tom Woods documentation effort deserves as much credit as does any other factor. Credit is also due to Frank Holland of the Mile High Chapter of TSUG for his article in their | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Multi-File - Spectrum Business Program | This is a superb, user-friendly, program with a wide range of possible uses. One key commands are utilized to the full and as it is written in Basic, it can be modified to individual user’s requirements. Reprinted from the Feb/Mar 1986 issue of ZX Computing. | Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Type-in program |
| Nachbaur Rumors | Anyone who has and still uses а ZX81, T/S 1000, T/S 1500, or а PC8300 clone knows about Fred Nachbaur. Fred resides up in Canada now, but for a while even he had doubts about whether he was going to be able to stay or not. That has been taken care of, for the moment. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Need to Set that QL Clock? | John Pazmino of the Boston Computer Society writes about an article he found in the LISTing N/L on how you can automatically set your QL’s internal clock to the nearest second, by using the U.S. Naval Observatory’s Atomic Clock. The U.S.N.O. transmits the time in G.M.T. (Greenwich Mean Time). By calling 202-653-0351, 24 hrs. a | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| New 2068 Magazine | Announcement for TS-2068 Update. | |
| New Gear for the System | I have recently purchased some new gear from AERCO for use with the AERCO disk system and for use with the RP/M mode. So. far, I have been very pleased with what I have purchased from them as I have stated before in numerous articles. The newest acquisition from the AERCO line is the dual | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| New Life for the Old Printer | I have a fairly obsolete computer system, I guess. A Timex 2068 powering an Epson RX-80. The Epson works well, never gives me any trouble, and has several good features like underline, bold, italic. etc. But lately, I have been a little embarrassed when everyone else’s printer seemed to turn aut copy looking like it | |
| Notes from the Co-Editor | ||
| Notes from the Editor | This is the September issue of THE DАТА EXPANSION, and as you read this, I will have been in the ‘hallowed halls’ of the public learning institution for almost two weeks. Summer was much too short, and the school year, I am sure, will be much too long. The next step to lock forward to | |
| Notes from the Editor | This has been an interesting past month. I have had а few special phone calls and letters from people concerning thesub-board that we have on the Kaypro BBS. Ed Gray, the SYSOP of the Timex sub-board on the YARBBS, was finally able to get on line calling through Dallas using PC PURSUIT. I do not | |
| Notes from the Editor | David describes the ways he uses his TS 2068 in his business. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Notes from the Editor | I have been reading some interesting articles in other newsletters from the Timex community. One in Particular that impressed me spoke about how good our computers really were. It made me wonder about the Timex people. If they had known how tenacious we ZX80, ZX81/1000, 1500, 2068, SPECTRUM, QL and AMSTRAD users and user groups | |
| Notes from the Editor | Newsletter merge between Dallas and Fort Worth user groups announced. | |
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| Notes from the Editor | Tim Ward, a former member, is trying to get together a Public Domain Software Library from all over the place for the 1000, 1500, and 2068. | |
| Notes from the Editor | This has been a fairly exhausting month. There has been so much going on that I really do not know where to start. I finally got BOTH the December and January newsletters out. That was a job in itself. The December newsletter, if you remember, was late because my disk interface needed to be repaired | |
| Notes from the Editor | I have become aware in the last few months of the demise of the Timex computers. I know that it truly took place about three years ago, but it seems to have risen again. I also know that I have commented about this before, but bear with me as I comment on it again. We | |
| Notes from the Editor | There has been quite a bit on my mind as of late, and of course, it involves the Timex computers we all know and love. I have been reading, with ə great deal of skepticism, other newsletters that have been be-littling the CP/M mode that you can have with the Aerco Disk system, the Zebra | |
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| November Meeting Notes - Fort Worth | ||
| Overloader v.1 | Program to help with downloading files from a BBS. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Overloader ver 1.2 (AERCO) | In the December issue of the newsletter, John Battey, my CO-EDITOR, came up with an exceptional program called OVERLOADER. When you download an ASCII file that is longer that the 15500 bytes that will comfortably fit in an MSCRIPT file, you must divide that file. John came up with an appropriate program to allow the | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Partial CLS for the ZX81 | Did you ever want to clear just the bottom portion of the screen during a BASIC program? Perhaps you have a title across the top line or two and would like for it to remain during the entire program. This little six byte machine code routine will allow just that. That’s right SIX BYTES! Actually | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Past-Chairman's Chat | ||
| PC-8300 Interfacing Alert | Cautions against interfacing directly to some lines; color pack is PAL only. | Lambda 8300 |
| Peripherals for the Timex/Sinclair/Amstrad and Other Lines of Computers | Overview of various Star Micronics printers. | |
| Pixel Print Professional v3.2 | The Pixel Print Professional is an integrated program network built around the Pixel Print Plus! Desktop Publisher… and the AERCO DISK SYSTEM! The “HEART’ of the system is an outstanding Font/Graphics editor program. It is EXTREMELY easy to use (WYSIWYG). Here is a list of commands at your control; KEEP, UNDO, SAVE, LOAD, LOAD ICON, | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Practical Bank-Switching for the 2068 | If any one factor can be said to have made the Pixel Print Prof. series of software possible, it would be the ability to hold the LEFT and RIGHT columns in memory at the same time, 48128 bytes of data plus the program! This was only possible with add-on memory and a programing tool called | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Press Release: Weymil Corp Delta Device | The DELTA DEVICE is the first non-volatile memory system (NVMS) developed for the TS 1000 family of computers. It consists of a 32K non-volatile memory board and the Rigter Operating System (ROS). The product was developed by Mr. WILF RIGTER and is marketed exclusively bу WEYMIL CORP. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Printer Fixes are Possible | Notes on configuring a new printer with the AERCO disk system. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Program Modifications Excerpt from The T/S Telecommunications Guide | As MTerm II is one of the oldest and most widely used terminal programs for the TS 2068, many modifications have been developed by different individuals іп ап effort to add ‘enhanced’ features to the program. This is one of the several that you may find useful. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Program Reader | Have you at one time or another forgotten the name of a particular 1000 program but didn’t want to wait the 10 minutes to see what it was? Help is at hand! This routine will read and print the name the program was saved under, all in a few seconds and without affecting the saved | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Program Writing from the Top Down | Review of Micro Computer Software Design: How to Develop Complex Application Programs by Sally Campbell. | |
| Psion Organizer II Hits U.S. Market | On the other side of the Atlantic, ‘small is better’ seems to be the credo as far as computers is concerned. Starting with Clive Sinclair and the ZX-80, the business of tiny computers has mushroomed. Now Psion — the same folks who created the bundled software for the QL — is marketing their handheld computer | |
| QL Tip | Using a 1200 baud modem without a Modapter. | Sinclair QL |
| QL to Monitor -- Come In! Buffering the QL | Connecting a reconditioned monitor to the Sinclair QL. | Sinclair QL |
| QL VAL String Function | A long time ago I saw a note by Mike de Sosa on the lack of the VAL string function on the QL. At the time Į didn’t have one, but with the recent price cuts I’ve added a QL to my “home for orphan computers”. Although I ordered one with software and QL User | Sinclair QL |
| Quikpro+II Automatic Program Writer | QUICKPRO+ is a complete File Maintenance/Data Entry Program Generator. It actually writes the program that you design – to an extent. You have a manual and one disk provided in the software package. It states that it normally costs $149.00, in the advertisement for it, but by special request you may purchase it for only | |
| Relocating Machine Code Programs in the TS-2068 | Why would one want to relocate machine code? Many M/C programs written for the 2068 are located in the same area of RAM. Sometimes one might want to use both if they can be used that way. If you relocate one, you may be able to use both. I had previously purchased the ZEAL disassembler | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Resistor | Although written for the ZX81, this program should work as printed on the Spectrum/2068. As most dabblers in electronics know, the value of a resistor is given by a set of colors printed on its side. This short program will decode the full four bands almost instantly. А very useful utility to have for building | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| RLE Picture Documentation | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| RP/M Telecommunicating with MODEM7 | Since getting a corrected version of MODEM7 to work with the AERCO disk system with RP/M and the 2050 modem, I have done a great deal of downloading Public Domain programs. If you thought that MTERM II was confusing at times, that is nothing compared to MODEM7. I also thought that Specterm-64 took some time | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| RP/M Utilities - RPMPIP Continued | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| RP/M Utilities: PRMPIP | You should always make a back-up or archive copy of your favorite or most-often-used programs. I know that, after a few times of having to do the programs all over again, I now am making back-up copies to everything that I record or write. “Once burned” is enough of a lesson for me to learn. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| RP/M Utility - DU-V89 | Naturally during the weekends, I put in some time on the modem downloading some software and utilities that I am not familiar with. Most of these, from the FUKUG MBBS & PSDE, have become quite handy for me to have. They have become so handy that I have changed my normal BOOT disk to contain | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| RP/M-CP/M Format Crises Fixed And More | This has been a very good past week, particularly the weekend. I spent part of the time over at the apartment of one Richard Molpus whom I met on the Kaypro BBS last weekend. Richard has given me the help that I needed. I was able to, with Richard’s help and the help of his | |
| SAFE Disk Up-date (A Review) | Review of the TS-2068 Update newsletter. | |
| Screen Splitter | Utility routine that enables you to save a SCREEN$ in one of 30 different ways, combinations of top pixels, middle pixels, bottom pixels, and attributes. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Screen Splitter - Continued | Utility routine that enables you to save a SCREEN$ in one of 30 different ways, combinations of top pixels, middle pixels, bottom pixels, and attributes. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| SCREEN$ Utility | David Braziel of Stafford gives a very interesting routine for the Alphacom 32 or ZX printer. This will give you some very interesting screen dumps. Reprinted from Your Spectrum, August 1987. | Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Type-in program |
| September Meeting Notes | ||
| Short Cuts from England | Short programs, originally printed in ZX Computing Monthly. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Some Directory Programs: XDIR, DIRRx, SOxxx and DA21c | The CP/M resident DIR command is very limited. Files are listed in the order they vere put on the disk, unless you run a program to alphabetize the directory. File size isn’t shown. Remaining directory and disk space isn’t shown. | |
| Some Help for Out-of-Date Printers and Other Helpful Insights | About two years earlier, I purchased a new (close-out) printer to use with my 2068 from a place that sold NEC printers. My NEC PC-PR103A is IBM compatible but not EPSON compatible. I still like it and it does have an excellent NLQ mode that is easy to read. I have used it for correspondence, | |
| Some Problems Develop with the Modem | I have been working with the modem for the AERCO system and have run into some difficulty. I have tried to use the Specterm-64 program from Grey and Associates. I have also attempted to get the version of Modem? to work with the modem with no luck. I went to the FWKUG and received some | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Special Timex Notes from CATUG | Ron Havlen (Editor of the Zebra FDD Newsletter) has adapted two CP/M telecommunications terminal programs to the Zebra FDD system (CP/M mode only). This allows the Zebra FDD users to download and use public domain CP/M software with their systems. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| SQ Notes | This month a look at another program that has been around for a while, but does not support the new gismos wе have hung onto the 2068, such as a centronics type printer. I am sure you all have a copy of it since it has been one of the first programs released for the | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Star Tip | Assembly language routine to read the keyboard. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Star Tip | Tips for programs with loading screens. Originally appeared in Your Spectrum, October 1987. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Star Tip | Short sprite code program. Originally published in Your Spectrum, December 1987. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Star Tip: Spectrum | Ever looked at the flashy rainbow colored lettering on Hewson games and wished you could do the same. Now you can, thanks to the people at Hewson allowing programmer Dominic Robinson to show you how. | Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Type-in program |
| Still Speedy After All These Years | Letter to Jerry Pournelle about the speed of BASIC compilers on the Sinclair QL. | Sinclair QL |
| Superdriver Catalog | Superdriver (SD for short) is a collection or family of machine-code printer support modules, for use by both experts and non-experts. Modules are available either separately or in a package. Comprehensive documentation is provided. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| T/S 1000 Corner | I wrote this program one day while trying to figure out how to read the TS 1000 display file. The point of this program is to figure out what is on the screen at a particular print position. It’s a game of driving a jeep through a minefield. Use arrow keys to avoid the mines. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Tapecopy | Using a copy of the directory, the program allows for copying microdrive tapes. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Tasman Printer Interface Pokes | Here are a few pokes to use the Tasman printer interface with Mterm and HOT-Z disassembler. First, have the basic loaders for the programs load the copy software into the printer buffer. (The version that starts as 23296). | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Telecommunications on the QL | The QL, for all its power and versatility, is limited in telecommunicating at 300 baud without a hardware link between the serial port and the modem. Michael Mitchell submitted the following. It will get you on line at 300 (or even 1200) baud with a Hayes compatible modem. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| The 3rd Annual International Great NW TS Mini-Fair | You are all cordially invited to attend THE THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL/GREAT NW TS MINI-FAIR to be held at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Portland, OR, on August 6th and 7th of this year. As planned, this two day event should be the high point of your 1988 computing year! Plans include the following: SEMINARS: Speakers committed | |
| The AERCO FD-68 Disk System | Review/overview from new user. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| The Amstrad PC1512 | At last! A powerful IBM-compatible personal computer with the popular ‘Mouse’ and software, all at an affordable price. | |
| The East End of the Turnpike | Editorial about using Timex computers long after their expiration date. | |
| The Great Newsletter Debacle | John Battey, our Dallas edition editor, has taken on a new employer, and therefore new responsibilities, many of them ‘on the road’. John states that he had a great time as co-editor, but regretfully, will be unable to continue production of the newsletter. We fully understand the call of a career, and wish him well | |
| The Joys of Assembly | Information about file extensions on CP/M. | |
| The Keyboard Scanning Ports of the TS-2068 | Some time ago when first attempting to translate a “SPECTRUM” program for operation in the TS-2068, I was exposed to a BASIC command that I had not see before – “IN”. This aroused my curiosity and I began to work with different values and methods of writing the command as the translated programs would not | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| The Mysterious K | This is the second of two modifications that we are making to Art Studio. Last month we removed that annoying LENSLOCK protection from our loader program. This month we will modify the machine code so that we can control our Art Studio cursor with both keyboard and joysticks that are plugged into the TS-2068 joystick | |
| The Organizer | Type in this program for the 48K Spectrum and save it as SAVE “ORGANISER” LINE 1. But do not forget that this program goes along with the SCREEN SPLITTER program. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| The SINCUS News Public Domain Software Exchange | Letter from John Austin describing the tape exchange. Includes listing of several tapes. | |
| The State of the Eight: 8-Bit Computers - Alive and Running | With the same incredulity, we often hear similar statements of disbelief: “I can’t believe IT!” “Weren’t 8-bit machines dead two years ago?’ ‘Who in their right mind would still be using one of those things?’ These are some typical statements often made by members of the ‘mainstream’ computer press. Especially when they find out that | |
| The T/S Telecommunications Guide | I have just received the BIG telecommunications guide from Pete Fischer. (This is the one that has it all on the 11 X 8 1/2′ paper.) The cover page is in black and white, but he included-for me-the identical page in its original COLOR form. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| The Ultimate Orphan? | How would you like a dirt-cheap computer system that has a real keyboard, high-res (256×192) or very-high-res (640×256) screen display, runs fast, has oodles of memory (typically 256K), hardware options up the gazpp, and firmly yet gracefully thumbs its nose at Big Blue? What if this computer had TONS of public-domain software and shareware available | |
| The Z280 Chip | CP/M is dead; long live CP/M. Just as the funeral peroration for CP/M was fading in our ears, there came a small jubilant horn toot out ot the south-west and west (Dallas and Los Altos) reporting sightings of unusual news from Winnipeg about products from Redding and Campbell (Californias, you all!). To wit: Zilog, Inc., | |
| Thinchars - A Spectrum Utility | If you have ever used MASTERFILE, then you know that they have a way to call up printing in 32 columns, 42 columns, or 64 columns. This may not quite be the way that it was accomplished, but it just might be the ‘kernal’ that they began with. This is for the Spectrum, but it | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Timex Tips | I just got the Zebra Disk Drive and am very pleased with it. I have a program that I have modified to save data on the disk. It is very important data and I would like to be as sure as possible that it is not lost due to a disk error. I notice that | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Timex Tips | QUESTION: Can you explain the term RLE graphics? ANSWER: R.L.E. stands for RUN LENGTH ENCODED graphics, which probably does not tell you a lot. The idea is to take а screen full of graphic information (usually 256 dots across by 196 dots high) and turn the information into ASCII characters which сап then be sent | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Timex Tips | Here is something that puzzles me. I understand most of the terms in machine code, but what does SET do? When would we use it? Each location in memory can hold a number from 0 to 255. When we PEEK a location, the computer gives us the number stored in that location. What is really | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Timex Tips | QUESTION: How many ‘ports’ do we have? What are ports used for? ANSWER: A port is a window to the outside world, just like on a ship. In the Timex-Sinclair line of computers, we have a total of 256 possible serial ports. This is because the machine code instructions used to access ports require a | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Timex/Sinclair User Group of Fort Worth, Texas September Meeting Notes | The meeting was called to order by our president, Gene Pickens. Even though only 10 members were present at this meeting (a rather small group) and no one had any classes prepared for this meeting (there was too much going on at work to have time to prepare anything), there was a great deal of | |
| Timex/Sinclair Users Group Meeting of Fort Worth, Texas | The meeting convined in MEETING ROOM “С” of the Fort Worth Public Library at 300 Taylor Street in downtown Fort Worth. The next meeting is scheduled for October 11, 1986 in MEETING ROOM 24. The meetings are on the second Saturday of each month from 1:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. The meetings are open to | |
| Timex/Sinclair/Amstrad Improvements | There have been some tremendous strides for the Timex/Sinclair/Amstrad family of computers. It is difficult to believe that these computers have been gone from the market (1000/1500/2068) for over four years now. It seems as if you can’t keep a good thing down. There have been improvements added in the past few years, not to | |
| To All T/S User Groups Exchanging Newsletters With The Dallas Timex/Sinclair Amstrad Users Group | As the person responsible for exchanging newsletters for our DALLAS user group, I would like to make the following information available to all those groups who in the past, or who are at present sending us their newsletter. | |
| Transparent Ink | Short program to demonstrate color attributes. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| TS 2068 Disc System from AERCO | Enhance the performance of vour TS 2063 with the AERCO Disc System. All of the speed and convenience of a full-out floppy disc system. Save, load, and copy programs at the industry standard rate of 250,000 bits/sec. Fully compatible with all Shugart type drives, including those already in use with the AERCO 1000 Disk System. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| TS/1000 VERIFY | With only 8K of ROM in the TS/1000 it’s little wonder that it hasn’t a verify command. This little program will take care of that omission. This routine is based on the LOAD routine in ROM. The change is when a byte is read off the tape. Instead of putting the byte into the appropriate | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| TS2068 Up-Date | I am just back from the Orlando Winter Fest where all TS-2068 and QL products were selling like hot-cakes. Even this old cheap skate bought a QL plus about $400.00 of accessories. How gotta enter the learning curve again, durn it! Due to the vigor and numbers of the QL users, and the fact that | |
| Types of Assemblers | I know that you are familiar with most of the assemblers that are on the market for the Timex system. Опе of the best that I have seen is HOT-Z, but I have also used ZEUS. I have seen a few for the Spectrum, but have never used them. I figured that this was all | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| User Profile - Dallas | ||
| User's Guide on T/S Telecommunications | I recently received a letter from Pete Fischer asking about our sub-board on StarText and the FWKUG MBBS, It seems that he and Steve Ishii are compiling a book slated for publication about mid-September or so. They were pleased by the fact that we should be in a PC Pursuit city making the long distance | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Using BIN Within a Program | Using the expression evaluator to get around the limitations of BIN. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Using Tasword II to create a TYPEable (on a BBS) Text File | Tasword II files, unlike Mscript files, DO NOT include carriage returns (CR) or line feeds (LF) at the end of EVERY LINE. There is a LF (but no CR) at the end of each papagraph. Therefore when a file, created with Tasword, is uploaded to a BBS, the remote system does not (cannot) display the | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Using the TS-2068 Joystick Ports with Art Studio | This is the second of two modifications that we are making to Art Studio. Last month we removed that annoying LENSLOCK protection from our loader program. This month we will modify the machine code so that we can control our Art Studio cursor with both keyboard and joysticks that are plugged into the TS-2068 joystick | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Weiser Buffer Utility | This program is based on the Sincus Buffer Utility by Dave Shoenwetter as well as the ‘FASTDIAL’ program from Micro-Systems BBS. The first half of this listing looks a little like Schoenwetter’s Aerco Printer I/F utility program. I’ve altered both the BASIC and the machine code. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| What Do You Know About RP/M? | Overview of the commands. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| What Might Have Been | Reprint of Ever Hear of the T/S 3068? (And Other Matters) from Time Designs Magazine. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Why Would You Want CP/M+? | The first time I knew that CP/M was available to us via the AERCO disk system and the ZEBRA FDD 3000, I wondered what version of CP/M it was. I soon found out it was CP/M 2.2. 1 spoke with Ron Lane, SYSOP of the FWKUG MBBS & PSDE, and he told me that as | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Wordstar Version 4.0 Is Here | 1 have just recently been introduced to WordStar 3.3. I have tried using this program and found it quite good, but confusing at times. I was happy with MSCRIPT 5.3, but still wanted something more powerful and disk-based. (Yes, I have the disk version of MSCRIPT, but I still wish to write longer files without | |
| Working with the ZX81/TS1000 Display File | Reprinted from ZX Appeal, July/August 1986 issue. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Working with the ZX81/TS1000 Display File (Continued) | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Z88 Review | Republished from Computer Shopper. | Cambridge Z88 |
| ZX81/TS 1000 Tips | Here is a little function, which may be placed at the beginning or within a machine code program, to stop the program until the tape player starts inputting data. Where XXXX represents the address. This is a routine to set RAMTOP and then install your machine code above it. As an example, let’s say that | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| ZX81/TS1000 Tips | To determine the address of ‘UPLOAD’, PEEK 16511 + 256 x PEEK 16512 + 4 using a direct command. Then add this number to 16514. The result will be the required address. In my example there are no extra bytes in 1 REM. Therefore the PEEK would give 86. 16514 + 86 = 16600. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| ZX81/TS1000 Tips | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
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