John McMichael

Owner(s): John McMichael
1710 Palmer Drive, Laramie, WY 82070

Products

Name Description Computers
2068/1520 Printer Interface Interface to connect a TS 2068 to the Commodore 1520 plotter. Later available with driver for Okimate 20 printer. The Commodore 1520 was was a small, four color pen plotter, built on an ALPS DPG1302 plotter mechanism. The same mechanism was used in the Atari 1020, the Radio Shack CGP-115 and a number of others. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Bannerific Utility program, probably to print banners on the CBM 1520 via the 2068/1520 interface. Timex/Sinclair 2068
CMS/1520 patch kit Timex/Sinclair 2068
Collection #1 Over 150 large and small graphics for Print Factory. Includes men/boys, women/girls and miscellaneous digitized images. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Collection #2 More than 160 large and small graphics for Print Factory. Collection includes animals, sports, transportation, computers, food, holidays, Xmas and funny images. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Collection #3 Large and small graphics for Print Factory. Collection includes female faces, male faces, animals, zodiac signs, holidays and transportation. Timex/Sinclair 2068
ColorCopy Copy a SCREEN$ in color? Yes! All eight Timex paper and ink colors are accurately reproduced on an Okimate 20 in a full 24 line x 32 column graphics screen dump. Copies in two sizes in color or black and white. Patch kit allows MScript 5/5.2 to print to Okimate 20. Hi-mem driver for LPRINT/LLIST Timex/Sinclair 2068, Downloadable
Pic-Plot Utility program, probably to print images to the CBM 1520 printer via the 2068/1520 interface. Timex/Sinclair 2068
SCLD Chip Timex/Sinclair 2068
Screen-to-Plotter Utility program, probably to print images to the CBM 1520 printer via the 2068/1520 interface. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Video 3-D Generate 3-D images from grayscale images captured with the SMUG video digitizer. Normal and inverted effects, four selectable Z-axis depths. Can be auto-colorized. Timex/Sinclair 2068
VideoCopy Software to print grayscale images captured from VCR with the SMUG video digitizer on an Okimate 20 printer with IBM parallel (Centronics) interface. Black and white and high resolution auto-colorized versions. Color editor for user-assigned colorizing. Timex/Sinclair 2068
VideoTex Software to capture and edit grayscale images captured from VCR with the SMUG video digitizer. Timex/Sinclair 2068

Books

Periodicals

Downloads

Name Description Computers
ColorCopy Print in full color to an Okimate 20 in a full 24 line x 32 column graphics screen dump. Timex/Sinclair 2068
OKI DLPG A program to support printing SCREEN$ files to an Okimate 20 printer. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Okimate 20 Downline Loadable Character Generator A program to support unique character sets for use with the Okimate 20 printer. Timex/Sinclair 2068
PCB Aid Timex/Sinclair 2068
Perimipics Drawing program that converts the drawing into user-defined graphics. Entry for the SyncWare News programming contest. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Print and Copy IBM A program to support printing on the Okimate 20 printer. Timex/Sinclair 2068

Articles

Title Description Computers
2068 PC Board Aid This program is designed as an aid in laying out a PC board for the Sinclair computers. The 2040 listing will give the correct 0.1″ spacing for the edge connector. Timex/Sinclair 2068, Downloadable
A Screen Copy in Full Color and More Review of interface and software to print in color on Okimate 20. Timex/Sinclair 2068
And Now For Something Completely Different Make t-shirt transfers of TS 2068 artwork using John McMichael’s hardware and software. Reprinted from Sinc-Link v8 n1. Timex/Sinclair 2068
And Now For Something Completely Different Print 2068 images to an OKIMATE 10 or 20 printer; transfer those images to clothing. Requires either McMichael’s Commodore interface or an Okimate with IBM parallel interface. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Banners in Colour Review of John McMichael’s Bannerific, a program for creating banners on the VIC-1520 plotter. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Color Plotting on the 2068: A Hardware Interface for the Commodore 1520 Timex/Sinclair 2068
Color Printouts Examples of programs that print to the VIC 1520 plotter. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Color Text Printouts with MSCRIPT Describes how to make a custom version of MSCRIPT that will print ot the VIC-1520 plotter. Timex/Sinclair 2068
COLOR2GREY Review of the utility to convert color images to greyscale images for printing. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Coloured Screen Dumps for the TS 2068 Review of PIC-PLOT from John McMichael. PIC-PLOT prints monochrome or two-color screen images to the VIC-1520 plotter. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Finally - Full color screen dumps for the 2068 Full color prints available with John McMichael’s interface and an Okimate 20. Timex/Sinclair 2068
For Your Sinclair: New Releases External keyboard for TS2068, sound booster, RGB interface and cartridge adaptor from John Mathewson. Utility tape for TS1000/ZX81/TS1500 from LST Software. PC-DRAW from MDM Enterprises. Compuserve announces GIF format. Desktop publishing program from Charles Stelding. Hardware/software to print to Commodore 1520 plotter. Archive utilties for QL. Sinclair QL, Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 1500, Timex/Sinclair 2068
Graphex-Pander BASIC screen dump program for the Gorilla Banana printer with Aerco or Oliger print interface. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Graphic Design Files for The Print Factory family of programs Review of John McMichael’s graphic disks. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Grey Scale and DTP Overview of Zprint 80 from Zebra and Color2Grey by John McMichael. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Just Released Comprehensive public domain software library maintained by VISTA (Vashon Island Sinclair Timex) is available. Software available to perform color screen dumps to the Okimate 20, when connected via parallel interface. New business software from Bottle Cap Software, Byte Power. Zunk Custom Electronics is offering CADZ and games from Magicksoft. For QL users, EMSoft and Meta
Letters
Low Cost Voice Recognition for the TS-2068 With a new chip recently offered for sale through Radio Shack distributors and a few other parts, a speaker-independent word recognition circuit can be easily and inexpensively built. This article will describe how to build the circuit and interface it to a TS2068 via a joystick port. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Machine Code Joystick Routine Short program to accurately read the joystick. Timex/Sinclair 2068
More Timex Sinclair Discusses formation of SNUG, John McMichael’s interface to the Okimate color printers. Timex/Sinclair 2068
My .02 Worth or .03 with Inflation Timex/Sinclair 2068
New Print Factory Graphics Now Available Timex/Sinclair 2068
Newsletter Notes Fred Nachbaur is getting out of commercial end of things TS1000. John McMichael has connected an Okimate 20 to his TS2068 via his Commdore 1520 plotter interface. Knighted Computers is not going out of business. Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068
Program Review: Videotex, Video 3D and Videocopy Timex/Sinclair 2068
Software Review: Videotex v.15 Review of the shader program that works with the SMUG image digitizer. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Suppliers Updates on Larken Electronics, RMG, Update Magazine, EMSoft, John McMichael, Byte Power.
The Digitizer and What's Happening Timex/Sinclair 2068
The Last Page Fractal images plotted on the TS 2068 and printed on the VIC-1520 plotter with John McMichael’s interface. Timex/Sinclair 2068
The TS2068 and the Commodore 1520 Plotter Review of John McMichael’s interface and driver software to allow for printing to the 1520. Timex/Sinclair 2068
Timex Tidbits Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 2068
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