Programming contests and reader challenges run by Sinclair magazines: announcements, rules, entrant lists and winners.
Contests
Articles (17)
| Title | Author(s) | Publication | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Challenge Request to improve included subroutine ("flowchart"). The subroutine plots the program above it (prior to line 9901) as a flowchart. | SyncWare News | May/June 1988 | |
| ABC-123: Educational Games for the ZX81 The "ABC/123" program is quite long, so we are breaking it into two parts. The result of this first installment... | SyncWare News | Jan-Feb 1987 | |
| Contest Closes The Second Sort-of-Annual Programmer's Contest officially closed April 15th. Soon judging of the entries will be complete, the winners announced,... | SyncWare News | May/June 1987 | |
| Contest Deadline Nears The Second Annual Programmer's Contest deadline is rapidly approaching. As of January 31, on a single entry has been submitted.... | SyncWare News | March-April 1987 | |
| Contest Nears Conclusion 60+ contestants who submitted over 80 programs to the Big Contest; Timex 2068 disk drive has been submitted to the... | SyncWare News | Jul-Aug 1985 | |
| Contest Winners IN OUR premier issue we asked readers to write a great 2K program and win a chance to have their... | Timex Sinclair User | September 1983 | |
| Dunnington Flowcharter (Editor’s NOTE: This article would be worthwhile reading if it didn’t contain anything but the material on programming above line... | Earl Dunnington | SyncWare News | |
| Editorial Season's greetings; Second Sort-of-Annual Programmers Competition; new improved publication. | SyncWare News | Nov-Dec 1986 | |
| Forum Computerfest Update; SyncWare programmers contest; who is Orrin McGill; external power; questions about color monitors; ZX81 flight trainer; what's a... | SyncWare News | Jan-Feb 1987 | |
| Forum Letters from G. W. Goegelein, Robert Hartung, Frances Jackson. | Gerald W. Goegelein Robert Hartung Frances Jackson | SyncWare News | July/August 1987 |
| Plotting the Graph of an Equation Type-in program that demonstrates the plotting commands. | Update Magazine | July 1989 | |
| Save Program SAVEs itself ad infinitum. One of the Clever Contest winners. | Timex Sinclair User | November 1983 | |
| The ‘Old Gents’ Flowcharter Last issue, SyncWare News printed a simple flow chart generating program. Our Editor issued the following challenges to our readers:... | SyncWare News | ||
| The Fame & The Glory And now, here are a few more words about the last contest. First, we would like to thank all of... | SyncWare News | Mar-Apr 1986 | |
| The Fame and Glory After much deliberation, the winners of The SyncWare News 2nd (sort of) Annual Programmers’ Competition have been decided. The winning... | SyncWare News | July/August 1987 | |
| The First Annual T-S HORIZONS/Games to Learn By “ART SHOW” Send us your favorite picture done using ART FOR ALL AGES. If it is selected by the judges as one... | T-S Horizons | Oct/Nov 1984 | |
| Who Won? Gregory Harder, Denver, CO, came in first with Software LO-Res and John Byrne of Cookeville, TN, took second place with... | SyncWare News | September/October 1985 |