Timex Sinclair User
| Title | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| ... and snags award | Guardian named Clive Sinclair the Young Businessman of the Year. | |
| ... and software does too | National software library set up as a research and reference facility for the microcomputer industry. | |
| 'Rithmetic | Review of Supermath by Timex. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| 16 Pin Bowling | 1K program simulates bowling. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| 2K games will please | Starblaster is one of six 2k games sold by Softsync. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| 3 in 1: Mixed Game Bag 1 | Review of the game from Timex. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| 3-D Xs and Os | 3D Tic Tac Toe. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| 3-D Xs and Os | Three dimensional tic tac toe. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| 3D Xs and Os | Program was only partially printed in prior issue. Full listing in this issue. | |
| 6 Keyboards Compared: Which is the one for you? | Add-on keyboards are available for your T/S — but which one should you buy? | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| A personal computer with many office applications | Biers describes using the TS1000 for business applications. He also authored several programs for business, incuding Business Pack I, Business Pack II and Personal Financial Planning Pack, all published by Gladstone Electronics. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| A-maze-ing 3-D overview | Review of Labyrinth, from Mindware. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Alien Lure | Game which links bug-baiting with a battle against alien invaders. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Aliens Attack | Review of Galactic Invaders from Sams. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Aliens Attack Again | In Invasion Force, you control a laser base and must shoot through a moving force field and destroy an alien ship. If you hit a black blob in the moving force field, all your damage to the ship is repaired. Smaller ships fly by and drop bombs on you. The game ends when you run | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Aliens earn top marks (3D-Orbiter) | Review of the game from Melbourne House. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| All about ROMs | Review of Understanding your ZX-81 ROM by Ian Logan. | Sinclair ZX81 |
| Also from Timex: a new printer | ||
| Amusement for Brainy Types | Reviews of The Nowotnik Puzzle, Mega Mind and The Cube Game. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| An Illuminating Idea | Hardware and software to switch up to four 5-amp loads at up to 110v. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| And Now the Comics | Parent company of Timex Sinclair User has announced Load Runner, the “galaxy’s first computer comic.” | |
| Angry Ape | Review of Krazy Kong by Intercomputer. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Arcade Corrections | Corrections to part 1 of Programming Arcade Games. | |
| Assembler offers aid | Review of ZX Assembler, from International Publishing and Software. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Back-up system for data | Short overview of the ZX-99 RS232C and tape control system. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Beginner's BASIC book a beauty | Review of David Lien’s Learning Timex Sinclair BASIC. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Binomial Distribution | Display shows a ball falling through a triangular matrix of pegs. When the ball hits one of the pegs, it rebounds to the left or right, entirely at random. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Blabberman | Animation of a Timex/Sinclair lover. One of the Clever Contest winners. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Blue No More | Use a giant rubber band to prevent RAM pack wobble. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Book-cassette package teaches programming | Review of Programming for Real Applications by Dilithium Software. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Britain's Software Pioneer Days are Over | The market has become more sophisticated and selling a good cassette can be just as difficult as writing it. | |
| British prices fall again | Sinclair Research in Britain maintained its reputation when, with no more than a brief press statement, announced a massive cut in the prices of the two versions of Spectrum. | Sinclair ZX Spectrum |
| Build your own EPROM blower without blowing a fortune | Build an 8255-based EPROM programmer, for 2516 and 2532 devices. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Bulletins | Updates from Hawg Wild, Silicon Valley North, Daydesign, T-S Systems, Intercomputer, Mindware, Micro Developments, DK’tronics, MicroSync, Florida Creations, Len Harmon, Filesixty, Data-assette. | |
| Bulletins | Updates from Sirius Ware, Lipinksi Software, Stuart Software, Barlog Software, C.R.C. Software, 2-Bit Software, Sync Master. | |
| Bulletins | Updates from ATC Software, Kentronics, Computech, SyncMaster, KIS Engineering, Gladstone. | |
| Bulletins | Second anniversary celebration of Sinclair-Timex User Group of the Boston Computer Society; user seeks triangulation software; query about using TS1000 as a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD). | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Bulletins | Updates from Intercomputer, Timextown, John Glazer, Warren Imports Group, KSOFT. | |
| Bulletins: Software satirizes suburbanites | Games from 2-Bit Software, keyboard from Pegasus Micro Systems, motherboard from Syntech, programs from Orbyte Software, E-Z Key 60 recommended, programs from ZX-Panding Ltd and announcement of the Timex-Sinclair 1983 Directory from E. Arthur Brown Company. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Can Timex maintain its image of clocklike efficiency? | Editorial about issues Timex has had marketing its computers and touching on articles in the issue. | |
| Capital Ideas | Review of Home Computer Can Make You Rich by Joe Weisbecker. | |
| Check our handy chess guide | Survey of chess programs including Timeware Chess, Chessmaster, Superchess, 1K Chess, 2K Chess, Timex Sinclair Chess. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Christmas Program | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| Circuit training helps to build good characters | Expansion to allow user-defined characters. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Clearing system bugs | Final article in series on programming in Bsci. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Clive runs up $200 million | Sinclair Research valued at $204 million with the launch of the Spectrum. | |
| Clive sells 1.6 million computers... | 130,000 ZX80s, 750,000 ZX81s and 200,000 Spectrums. Does not include at least 600,000 T/S 1000s. | |
| Clive Sinclair is Knighted | ||
| Color Me Gorgeous! | Description and demonstration of the 2068’s color abilities. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Comdex '83 | ||
| Companies Battling For Survival | Reports of troubles with the microcomputer market in the UK. | |
| Compoetry | Input a list of nouns, verbs and adjectives and computer produces a poem. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Computer Combat! | 1K mini Space Invaders program in BASIC. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Computerized Dee-Jay | Explains how one user created a database for 3,500+ records in The Organizer and some techniques he used to compress data. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Computerized Filing Cabinet | Review of ZX-Data Finder by Thomas B. Woods. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Computers and Confusion | Two new computers from Timex! That’s good news. The 2000 series is described on page 12. We looked at the 1500 in our previous issue. We’re glad these new machines are with us. Rut having said that, let’s look at the way Timex brought them to us. No sooner had we all bought our T/S | Timex/Sinclair 1500, Timex/Sinclair 2000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Computers as teachers: do they work? | Overview of how the Sinclair and Timex computers could bring affordable computer literacy to schools. | |
| Contest Winners | Winners of the 2K program contest. Winning programs are: | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Convert your T/S,ZX to Color | Build an add-on to connect a 6847 video display generator (same as in Radio Shack Color Computer) to your TS1000. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Converting Your Computer Into An Octopus | How Cliff Danielson expanded his MicroAce to a powerful home computer. Initially purchased to be the front-end to his home-built Z80 computer, he expanded the MicroAce with an 8K ROM, circuit to add FAST mode, 32K RAM, full-size keyboard, interfacing to a second computer. | MicroAce |
| Copying More or Less than the Standard 22 Lines | Define the number of lines printed via the COPY command to reduce paper waste. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Counting | Demonstrates how fast machine language can count. One of the Clever Contest winners. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Crazy Words | Madlibs on the computer. One of the Clever Contest winners. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Dealers | Program to deal 52 cards at random without repeating a card. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Defend your planet | Review of Galactic Invasion, from International Computers Ltd. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Deja-vu (ZX Scramble) | Review of the game from International Publishing and Software. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Devices Delivers | Review of L-Monitor. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Dial-A-Word | Program to convert phone numbers into words/phrases. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Dice | Simple program to roll six-sided dice. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| DISA-Z: A Z80 Disassembler | Disassembler for the TS2000, written and debugged on the 1000. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2000, Timex/Sinclair 2068, Downloadable |
| Disassembly book is complex, invaluable | Review of The Complete Timex TS1000/Sinclair ZX81 ROM Disassembly by Ian Logan and Frank O’Hara. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Download from Radio | Microperipheral Corporation developed a 4800 baud modem that could download software broadcast over the radio. | |
| Eat the dots ... (GULP) | Review of the Pac-Man clone game from Mindware. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Electric car, mini-TV, keep Sinclair's researchers busy | Update on projects at Sinclair. | |
| Exercise and Calories | Program to show calories used per activity. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Fast Action In 2K | Review of TS Destroyer and Space Raid, both from Softsync. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Fast Aliens (Galaxia) | Review of the game from Artic Computing. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Filing and Inventory Systems | Review of database programs The Organizer (Timex), Home Inventory (Orbyte), Data Storage and Display System (ZX-Panding), Business Inventory Control (Mindware), Inver Inventory Accounting (D. Lipinski) and ZX Pro/File (Thomas B. Woods). | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Flash and Scroll | Displays a string: flashes and scrolls it with machine language. One of the Clever Contest winners. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Flash Card | Program to make flash cards into a game. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Flying High: Pilot | Review of the game from Mindware. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Flying Your T/S1000 | Review of Night Gunner. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Follow our golden rules for better SAVEs and LOADs | Tips for saving and loading. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| For Football Fans | Review of Pick ‘Em by Stuart Software. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Fresh air from Reston | Review of Making the Most of Your Timex Sinclair by Tim Hartnell. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Fringe Benefits | Review of ZXAK-MAN by Pleasantrees Programming. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Fun In The Carrotpatch | Review of Packrabbit. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Glimpse of the Series 2000 | To give you a head start on the Timex Sinclair 2000-series color computer, Fred Blechman explains how to use the keyboard of its prototype, the Spectrum from Sinclair. | Timex/Sinclair 2000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Go with the flow and no illogical jumps | Part two of a step-by-step guide to teach readers how to program. Translating a flowchart to a program. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Hampson's Plane | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable | |
| Happy Simulated Landings | With the Flight Simulation program you must land your airplane successfully on the runway without crashing. Sitting in the cockpit, your control panel shows your speed, altitude, fuel and power. The top of viewing window for the landing. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Here comes the 1500! | First they brought you the T/S 1000! Next they promised the T/S 2000! But from what we have been able to learn, the American public was not as accepting of the redone ZX81 (which is what the machine was originally called in the U.K.) and quite willing to wait for the more sophisticated machine. There | Timex/Sinclair 1500, Timex/Sinclair 2000 |
| HexDump | Displays the contents of any portion of memory in hexadecimal. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| HEXEDIT: A Simple Hexadecimal Machine Code Editor | Short BASIC program that allows you to write, enter and debug hexadecimal machine code routines. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Hot under the Microchip | Has your T/S1000 ever crashed? If so, chances are it was due to overheating – probabyl the most common cause. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| How educational are the "educational" programs | Brief overview of effective educational software and review of educational programs from International Publishing, Mindware, Reston, Softsync and Timex. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| How I started a user group | A lot of people have asked me, “What is a user group and how does one get started?” A user group is a group of people who meet on a regular basis to share and discuss ideas and problems regarding the computer. There are many different types of user groups. Some are formed by owners | |
| How to Build an Inexpensive Joystick Interface | Simple circuit and software to interface Atari joysticks to the 1000. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| In search of a golden memory | Reviews Memopak 16K, Sinclair 16K and ZX-Panda. All fall short of perfection. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| In The Fast Lane | Review of Timeblasters by Robotec. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Input/Output Board lets you add on peripherals | Micro Developments’ I/O boards. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Inside the T/S1000, ZX81 | Description of the hardware that makes up these computers. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Instantaneous Keyboard Response | Part III of Programming Arcade Games. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Joysticks to the World | Review of the Zebra joystick interface and Atto Soft joystick, which solders directly to the motherboard. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Kaleidoscope | Prints thousands of constantly changing patterns. One of the Clever Contest winners. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Kingdom | Manage a rural realm, attempt to increase personal wealth and protect your people from flood, famine and the depredations of the ruthless local banditry. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Kingdom | Reprint of the program that appeared in issue 3 with missing code. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Knight's Move | Use the movement pattern of the knight in chess to cover every space in a square. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Kwikplot: A program for investigating correlations | Plots the correlation coefficient between two variables. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Lander | Lunar Lander. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Laser Cannon | Space Invaders like game that fits in 1K. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Lazy Monster: 3D Monster Maze | Review of the game from Melbourne House. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Learning to Love the Beast | Review of How to Cope with Computers, published by Hayden. | |
| Let the structure flow and you are well on the way | Part one of a step-by-step guide to teach readers how to program. Article discusses flowcharting programs. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Let this software help you run your home | Reviews and compares four programs specifically designed to help manage money; one to set home files straight (birthdays, recipes, phone numbers, and so on) and one full 16K program just for all those bonus coupons that accumulate. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Letters | On UK imports; overworked ZX81; reader service cards; support from South Carolina; question about RAM pack compatibility; on the 2040; pricing RAM packs; Cosmos revisited. | Sinclair ZX81 |
| Letters | Letters from readers about full-size keyboards, disk drives, learning Basic, the Spectrum. | |
| Letters | Letters about balance of articles between 1000 and 2068; 2040 paper; user support; overheating; program improvements; submitting programs; non-games programs; readability; improvement of the magazine. | |
| Letters | Letters about largest integer that can be stored; compatibility of TS1500 cartridges with 1000; saving memory; difficulty saving; differences between ZX81 and TS1000; tape recorders; inverse characters. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Letters | Letters about articles in previous issues, Winky Board 2. | |
| Letters: Lending an Ear, Keeping the Faith, Complaint Department | Kujawa seeks help in learning to program. Brehm pleased with his expanded TS1000. Odan expresses frustration with broken TS1000. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Lifetime's obsession can easily be acquired | Advice for new and prospective TS1000 owners. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Limited mail-order availability for new ZX Microdrive | Sinclair Research used a limited mail order system to launch the Microdrive. | |
| Link to the real world | Review of Down East Computing’s VOTEM, an all-purpose voltage and temperature measuring system designed to interface with the TS1000, ZX81 computer or any Z80 based system. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Locking Up | POKEs to prevent others from loading your programs. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Looking Back and Looking Ahead | Editorial about the state of the magazine. | |
| Machine Code Tape Offers Seven Utilities | Review of Machine Code Test Tool from Oxford Computer Publishing. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Machine language simplified | Review of Machine Language Made Simple For Your Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81. | Sinclair ZX80, Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Making A Good Thing Even Better | Review of dk’Tronics’ replacement keyboard. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Meet the man who clogged up Connecticut's phone system | In our premier issue, Timex Sinclair User features an exclusive interview with Dan Ross, the man who heads up the Timex computer division. His decisions will hopefully make T/S computing ever more fascinating in the future. Managing Editor Joe Gladstone reports. Probably the man most difficult to reach in the computer business is Dan Ross, | |
| Merging in BASIC | Technique for merging two data sets. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Microdrives for T/S Machines? | Sinclair Research is close to announcing the launch date for the Microdrive. | |
| Minibreakout | Breakout program in Basic. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Minotaurs | Maze game: avoid the hungry minotaur. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| Mixed-Use 4-Pack is a Mixed Blessing | Review of Powerpack 1 from Timex. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| More Missile Madness | Review of Missile Launcher, from Intercomputer. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| More than Electronic Babysitting | The man behind the camp program at Wesleyan College in Fort Worth, doesn’t Iike to make predictions. But one fact in the future of education Dr. Mark Wasicsko is sure of: computers. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| More Than One Can Chew | Review of Byteing Deeper Into Your Timex Sinclair 1000 published by Wiley. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| National Listing | Listing of user groups. | |
| No Faire for Timex | Timex was not at 8th West Coast Computer Faire. | |
| Note Tester | Program to print a note at a random spot on the musical scale; user names the note. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| Now in Canada | TX Computers Canada (the official name of Timex Computers in Canada) will be launching the TS1000 in Canada this summer. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Now your computer talks back | Brief of the DCP Speech pack. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Of Things To Come | 1983 Summer Consumer Electronics Show included representatives from Timex. | |
| On the Future of the 1000 | Editorial about the direction of the magazine and continued support for 1000 and 1500 owners. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 1500 |
| Packrabbit With A Joystick | POKEs to make Packrabbit, a program Timex Sinclair User sent to new subscribers, work with Righter’s joystick interface. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Paradox of the Twins | Demonstrates the “Twin Paradox” of one person travelling through space at a speed near light versus a person who stays on Earth. The person on Earth ages faster than the one travelling. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Pattern | Draws lines bouncing off the sides of the screen. One of the Clever Contest winners. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Points Lost for Program Flaw | By skillfully piloting your ship through space and firing at enemy craft, you must protect your convoy from destruction in Cosmos, You must direct your ship near an alien and fire your laser before it gets away. Points are scored by destroying alien ships. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Preparing for Machine Language Programming | Excerpt from Programming Arcade Games, to be published by Reston Publishing. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Previously Reviewed | Short summaries of previously reviewed software. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Program Printout: Beethoven | Program to play tunes via the television speaker. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| Program Printout: Lemonade | You are the budding entrepreneur of a lemonade stand, trying to outsell your rivals and lay the foundations of a fast food empire. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| Program Printout: London Bridge | London Bridge calls for nerve, thought and luck. The display is a graphic representation of the bridge, seen from above. The roadway is made up of a random mix of numbers 1 to 5, representing five types of flagstone. You must cross to the other bank but as you would expect, the bridge is falling | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| Program Printout: Phasor | Remarkable graphics effects are the striking feature of Phasor for the 16K TS1000, ZX81. You are an infamous space pirate travelling home through hyperspace after a hard day’s murder and mayhem. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| Program Printout: Probability | Poisson’s formula is a method of calculating the possibilities of recurrence of an event, based on a number of occurrences in the past. This program implements the formula. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| Program Printout: Rear Gunner | Rear Gunner is a program included specifically for the computer novice, to demonstrate the use of graphics mode and the maneuvering of a display under cursor control. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| Programming Arcade Games, Part I | Tools and techniques. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Programming Primer a Peach | Review of Programming Your Timex/Sinclair 1000 in Basic, published by Prentice-Hall. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| RAMKIT: Build your own 64K RAM | Build the RAM module with parts from Gladstone Electronics | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Rebuilding the Pyramids | Reviews of Gamestape 2, Pyramid, Artist, all from Melbourne House. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Regarding PEEK | Overview and tutorial about using PEEK to reveal information about the TS1000. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Reviews | Short reviews of Mothership, Gamestape 1, Graphic Golf, Mazogs, Wallbusters, Caves of Zulu, Combat Flight, Vault of the Centaurs, 80 Hours Around Europe | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Roll up for the ZX circus | Reporting on Sinclair events in the UK. | |
| Save | Program SAVEs itself ad infinitum. One of the Clever Contest winners. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Saving Memory | Two methods of memory saving coding. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Screen monitor improves graphics, saves eyesight | Review of the Gorilla monitor. | |
| Screen Sort | Fills screen with random characters then performs a bubble sort. One of the Clever Contest winners. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Screener: An 'Instant' Screen Display Routine | Short utility program that will let you print an entire screen almost instantly. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Search and Destroy | Review of Spacetrek from Beam Software. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Searching at routine speed | Tutorial on programming search routines. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Setting Forth | Overview of the Forth language, comparison to Basic and how Sinclair Basic uses Forth-like methods. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Sharp Shooter | You are the black-hatted villain confronting a posse of lily-livered bounty hunters. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Shoot Your Way To Safety | Review of Combat Flight from Melbourne House. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Shooting Range | Fire at a range of constantly changing letters. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Shopper's Guide: About T/S Computers... | Overview of the three Timex/Sinclair computers. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 1500, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Shopper's Guide: Books | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Shopper's Guide: Hardware | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Shopper's Guide: Software | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Shopper's Guide: Suppliers | List of hardware/software suppliers. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Simple ways of sorting data | How to program and comparison of sorts: bubble and shell. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Sinclair's searching for super software | With much media ado last April, Sinclair Research Ltd. licensed the Timex Corporation to sell its line of personal computers and peripherals in North America. Their first joint product, the Timex Sinclair 1000, hit the stores in August of last year and has been anteing upmarket share in thousands of outlets nationwide ever since. With | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Sleeper (Demolisher) | Review of the game from Intercomputer. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Softsync kit enhances graphics | Review of Graphics Kit from Softsync. | |
| Software Blues | Poor software experiences; discussion of rating system in the magazine. | |
| Something for Everyone | Review of What Can I Do with my TS1000? Lots! published by Wiley and Sons. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Squashed | Variation on Breakout. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Star Gates | Guide each ship through star gates to escape the impending super nova. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Stranded on Mars | Reviews of Aardvark’s Mars, Softsync’s Super Invasion, Melbourne House’s Reversi. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Strong and Durable | Review of Memotech’s keyboard. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Surround | Game where the goal is to surround your opponent before they surround you. Uses PEEK to read the keyboard. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| T/S Entrepreneurs | Products that have come from the Central Pennsylvania Timex Sinclair User Group include the Winky Board, ZXLLR8, math packages, inverse video circuit, robot. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| T/S Goes To Camp | Computing is fast becoming the latest thing in both day and overnight camps, and many camps across the country already include it among some of their activities. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| T/S Goes to the Library | “Fantastic! A great idea! I can think of no better way to show people what a great machine the T/S1000 is.” This excitement was generated when Greg Melko of Timex Computers of Canada discovered that two library systems in the Toronto area were allowing library users to become T/S users by borrowing a machine. The | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| T/S2068 Display Primer | Explains how to get your computer to put things on the screen where you want them to go. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Tape does a variety of tasks | Review of ZX-Toolbox by Melbourne House. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| The 2040: Efficient, Fast and Affordable | Review of the printer. | |
| The Anatomy of a Microcomputer | Review of The Ins and Outs of the TS1000 and ZX81 published by Melbourne House. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| The basic route to a habit-forming hobby | Guide for new owners. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| The Binary Banner | Article based on material later published in the book by Fred Blechman. Prints a banner on the TS2040. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| The Great Connecticut Kit-Building Experiment | New Haven teacher Chris Baldwin enrolled 28 kids in his 10-week ZX81 workshop. | Sinclair ZX81 |
| The invasion of the U.K. softwarecrats | ||
| The Microchip Demystified | Review of Mastering Machine Code On Your Timex/Sinclair. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| The Music Maker | Program that plays music on the TS1000. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| The New Arrivals | Overview of the Timex Sinclair 2000 and 1500. | Timex/Sinclair 1500, Timex/Sinclair 2000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| The Paradoxical World of Clive Sinclair | Brief overview of Sinclair’s career. | |
| These kids' books make learning fun | Review of Computers for Kids and Katie and the Computer, both from Creative Computing Press. | |
| This book is clear, witty, useful | Review of Timex Sinclair 1000: Programs, Games and Graphics by Ian Stewart. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Timex introduces the 1500 | Timex/Sinclair 1500 | |
| Timex needs higher profile | Magazine still seeking entries to programming contest. Timex absent from the West Coast Faire. | |
| Timex responds | ||
| Timex Speeds Up | Timex has narrowed the TS2000 computers to one model, the TS2068, in an effort to speed up delivery. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Timexpectations: What Can You Expect? | What to expect from the magazine and future Timex products. | |
| Tiny invention makes perfect saves & loads | Review of the Winky Board 2. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Tips for Beginners | Warning: using a T/S1000 can be habit-forming. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Totally Awesome | Prints the name of the magazine as a graphic. One of the Clever Contest winners. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Treasure Hunt | Maze game. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| Treasure Hunter | Find treasure hidden at a random position on the screen. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| U.K. Aids the Handicapped | Series of computer fairs to highlight what is being done in microelectronics to help the disabled. | |
| U.K. Hoax Exposed | “Machine Code Converter” published in April Sinclair User turns out to be hoax. | |
| Universal Patterner | Generates patterns at random. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Up or Down | Displays a message upside-down in enlarged characters. One of the Clever Contest winners. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Usborne books are delightful & fun | Review of Understanding the Micro, Computer and Video Games, Computer Spacegames and Computer Battlegames. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Use It | Short program to demonstrate several features of the computer. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Useful programming tips | Review of The ZX81/Timex Pocket Book by Trevor Toms. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Vast database soon available to Sinclair users | Report on microdrives and Micronet 800, an online service offered by British Telecom. | |
| Vast support network growing | List of user groups across the country. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Videographity | Program to draw on the screen. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| What'll They Think of Next? | Review of Hand Saver and Octoputs, by Electrocomp; both are accessories for Atari joysticks. | |
| When the lights go out ... | Cramic-81 is a low-power, battery-backup RAM. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Where to find everything | Review of The Timex Sinclair 1983 Directory by E. Arthur Brown. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Who says that graphics have to be complicated? | Tutorial on TS1000 graphics. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Word processing potential | Brief article about the Memotech parallel printer interface. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| World's First Computer Museum One Year Old | Brief overview of the Computer Museum in Marlboro, Mass. | |
| You Could Be Your Computer's Worst Enemy | Ways to manage problems using the TS 1000. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| ZXAD: Assembler is full-featured, easy to use | Review of the assembler program from Scientific Software. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
Published by ECC Publications, who also published Sinclair User, the UK version, Timex Sinclair User was headquartered in Buffalo, NY. The print run on the first issue of the magazine was 100,000 copies.
The American magazine has a separate editorial and advertising staff but members of the British Sinclair User team came to the U.S. to coordinate the launch. They included John Sterlicchi, who acted as editor-in-chief, and John Ross, advertisement manager of Sinclair User.
Only seven issues of Timex Sinclair User were published before Timex left the market. In December 1983, Syntax magazine reported that:
”Organization of ECC’s North American magazine will be restructured, according to observers close to the scene, but no decision has been taken to stop printing. Changes will delay issue 8, for which ECC apologizes.“
In just seven issues, they published a nearly 250 articles, reviews, programs and projects for Timex/Sinclair 1000 and 2068 owners.
The magazine shared some staff with Gladstone Electronics, whose American office was just a few miles away on Kenmore Avenue. They also shared an address with Prism Microproducts.
Aftermath
After the American office of Timex Sinclair User ceased publishing the magazine, it was sold to James Povec in Camden, Maine, who intended to bring it back. In an open letter to subscribers, reprinted in the April 1984 issue of The Plotter, Mr. Povec promised that the ”April issue will be on press shortly.“
Timex Sinclair Shopper, published by the same group, was ”created to serve the needs of the Timex Sinclair computer owner and the vendors committed to that market. With the departure of Timex Corp. from the computer market, there is a greater need for information and support than ever before.“
Timex Sinclair Shopper contained an advertisement for Timex Sinclair News. It promised to keep readers ”informed of events at Timex here in the U.S., and bring .. news of Sinclair in the U.K.“
Behind the scenes, there was some confusion about Timex Sinclair User and TS User. The new owner of Timex Sinclair User changed the name to Timex Sinclair News and TS User ceased publication immediately after.
A month later, Povec threw in the towel and announced that subscribers to Timex Sinclair News would receive issues of K-Power.
Syntax magazine announced its purchase of Timex Sinclair News in its July 1984 issue.
Staff
Timex Sinclair User shared a number of staff with its parent publication, including Richard Hease (chairman), Terry Cartwright (president), John Sterlicchi (editorial director) and more.
Though headquartered in Buffalo, NY, much of the local staff were Canadian, including:
- Joseph Gladstone, managing editor
- Vladyana Krykorka, art director
- Bill Gladstone, production editor
- Andres Hannach, Don Kletke and Gwen Egan, art assistants
- Robert Fraser, Igor Nowikow and Tom Perrone, technical advisors
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