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TS1000/ZX81. This card is port mapped, using the 8255 PIA chip. It provides two standard Centronics configured ports, 1 for Output to printer, the other for data input. A 32 byte PROM on the I/F overrides the ROM printer routines, and redirects these commands to driver software located elsewhere. This I/F FULLY supports BASIC LPRINT, LLIST, and COPY statements, including COPY as direct command.

Driver software included: loads above RAMTOP, but can be relocated to work in REM statement OR the 8-16K block. Two translation options provided: INVERSE=CAPS, or inverse= lower case. We will have the Printer Toolkit for this I/F within the next month: provides highly enhanced driver software, and several powerful utilities. |

E/S Centronics is a cartridge-type card. Supplied with "T-dock"-type connector: permits piggybacking RAM, etc. I/F can be removed or inserted WITHOUT disturbing other peripherals.

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In the pasti few months Gur Club has Started exchanging newsletters with about 18 стег Туз User Groups. There if much interesting and useful zturr іп these newsletters, So much sa that I have started circulating them among key club members, I sau Кеч members, What I mesn is that I have routed them to members Who, in my estimation, Would benefit the club most by being aware of wha Other ciubs gre doing.

2. UMelner Fair’ I'm not so suce, You will have to forgive me. nou iki extend this routing to others in the club 3 F-toun members.

Cameron пап dministrative end of this, and you сап a £i myself, io get on the diztributio

:Е We have a paid-up membership or about d& members served on a h Your computer,

If you have an article you would like published in the newsletter, give it to any member of the executive during the meeting or mail it to SINC-LINK c/o J. Roach, 33 Dundalk Drive, #23

Scarberovgh, Ontario MIP 4X6

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UPDATED TOPICS: With all the TS activity around everyone Should be familiar with all the latest "goodies" entering the market for the 752068, i.e. the Spectrus Ro» issue (Romswith, Emulators and Rom replacement) which is still unsettled due to the number of Spectrum programs which either will not Joad or will nnt run properly. For example, I cannot load Hisoft C and I cannot run Airwolf after it is loaded (and this is with 10k pullup resistors on data lines 0, 91, 93, 14, DS, 06, D7 to Vec). There is also the matter of running Spectrum hardware, which at the moment only runs using the Emu Emulators (which fit into the cartridge port), More on this subject further оп in this article.

Another interesting topic concerns mass storage, either by Sinclair Microdrive or by the sew Rotronics Vafadrive, The U.S.

prices for each is (reasonably) comparable to the U.K. prices (well, almost), One new company that is REALLY holding their ptices down is THE ENGLISH MICRO CONNECTION, 15 Kilburn Court, Newport, Rhode Island 02840, U.S.A., telephone 401-849-3805. ЕМС is an agent for several U.K. hardware companies. This means ENC takes your order asd the item is shipped directly from the U.K. to you. This is a good idea if you do not know what item is available and where it can be purchased. I will be giving a copy of their catalogue to nur Library for members to peruse. ENC does carry Spectreum software in stock, at almost U.K. prices. I talked at some length with Bob Dyl of EMC and this man is а fountain of information regarding the U.K. market. He will be carrying the Timex Portugal 12048 for $159.95 and the Timex Dist Drives upon their release in the U.S. in June . The price is

$239.95 for the first drive with interface and $125.00 for the second drive. He is presently taking orders. There іс also а hardware item available which converts both the 152068 configuration and voltages to the Spectrum specification. The sinple way to perform this yourself is to look in the last issue of SINC-LINK {second last page) at the drawings for all three edge connectors. From this you can see the wiring required and also where to install the two regulators {9 and 12 volt) fed from the 15у on the 752058 bus. The commercial item available from EMC is а "Microdrive Interface" which is supposed to run in conjunction with the Romcwitch, This means that all of us with the Romswitch will not have to buy an Emulator!

TS2068: There is really a lot either happening now or

about to happen, An interesting example of a new product is the ZEBRA SYSTEMS KDALA PAD. This is a reasonably sophisticated method of transferring patterns/artwork to either а printer (32 or 80 column) or to memory. Once I get the hang of both the Koala and the TECH DRAW software I will give a demo at one nf our 2048 nights, While on the subject of ARTVORKX, I must say that one of the BEST programs on graphics, that I have seen, was demo'd at our April 17 meeting by the author, David Ridge. This program wil] be carried by RAMEX and retailed at $19.95 U.S. for the 152068. The Spectrum version is forthcoming. 16 has several features that TECH DRAV does not have and lets you perform all this using a joystick. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!! RAY KINGSLEY has his new Exrow out. This version will be of more use once we have the

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ability to bank switch and our 2048 becomes our 182192, Ra Kingsley can be contacted at SINWARE P.0. Box 8032, Santa Fe, N

87504, The price tor the Ехгов is $16.00 {US}. This ROM (eprom) can be installed without either soldering or altering your 152068, He also says that he is working on a true 44 column screen for the 152048/152192.

TS1000: 109 live the Т91000/7Х81! It appears that some people believe this, as the market is not quite dead yet. A couple of interesting items are available. Tom Bent, editor of SincWare News has a version of the ROM available from Thomas В. Woods. This version corrects the LPRINT and the DIVIDE bugs, the SCROLL command and even makes the Q, ¥,V and К easy to read. It installs without modifying your 7Х81/151000, The two of us that have and use this item are pleased with it and we are even used to the computer initializing in the FAST mode. There is a new piece of software for the 2X81 and what a piece it is! It is called SINC-ARTIST 1.3 and is by CALLISTO SOFTWARE 924 2nd St. East, Saskatoon, Sask. S7H IRI. HIGHLY RECOMMEMDED!! Ian Singer will be carrying it (INTEGRATED DATA SYSTEMS, 30 BRODKMOUNT ROAD TORONTO NAL ЗМІ, 416-699-6380). I also see references to a MTERM П software program for the TS2050 Modem. If this is true it should encourage those that would like а Modem, but are resisting buying а 152048 just to access a smart anden, 1 happen to like the 7510007182050 combination, I even have HTERM on eprom for fast loading. Both MÜDEMS are available from IDS.

SPECTRUM: Anyone that is using BETA BASIC 1.6 and would - like the clock function tn keep North American 40 hz time can

simple Роке 56966,60 (the tics per second address). Brian

Hammond has talked ве into using the clock/alare function to

control timings (computer and social) while working at the

keyboard. And guess what - it works! Brian says "if you have a

computer and the software, why not get into the habit of using

ther’. Thank you Brian, Print and Plotter have a revised version

of Paintbox out, it is called PAINT PLUS and includes 24 new

commands. It will have to be good to match ATRUORKX! How would

you like to have а Spectrum Plus? According to Bob Dy! weabers nf the Ocean City Users Group are running Spectrums, This is done by using a X8] 9v 1 amp. power supply алі changing to the Spectrum connecter. It runs on channel 36. The Spectrum Plus has a 58 key keyboard with lots of single entry capability. At the momeant I’m thinking about getting one алі quite possibly either the Sinclair Microdrives or a disc system

and would appreciate any comments,

several

EDITORIAL COMMENT: Ном that the TS HARKET 15 in the midst of a miniboom, we enthusiasts should take note of а statement issued by the Prime Minister of Japan. He asked each aM every citizen of Japan to spend $100.00 om imported items during the coming year. I think it behooves each and every 15. USER to spend a little loot on some software or hardware during the currect year, If we do not, ^ jt is possible our computer rould die (marketwise that is). The present healthy state of the marketplace indicates that a lot of users are buying. I sure do

my share!

BELATED INTRO:

After reading ay last article, зове of you will be wondering what direction this column aight take. In this and future colusns, you will find information on the latest hardware additions, projects, and reliable parts sources. Plus reviews of new software, books, and other sources of support for иг Computer: the 1481 and T51000. Hence the new title.

Exploration of the workings of machine code will be pursued, along with воље advanced BASIC applications.

I will atteapt to answer letters from readers. Suggestions for future subjects will be considered. Some letters will be published, but if you expect a personal reply, you MUST include SASE.

ON WORDPROCESSING:

]t is clear that with the addition of a real keyboard, à suitable printer interface, and good software, the 181 CAN indeed become a wordprocessing machine with — iapressive capabilities!!

This is iaportant to ae, since in addition to preparing this column, I write a LOT of letters, Well over half ау computer tiae is spent processing text, To follow up on last issue's lead: Word Sinc 11.4 [(c)P.Hargrave], written for the Meaotech Centronics I/F, works as is, after a liaited fashion, with the Epron Services I/F. Some customization is required to get full use of printer escapes along with desired punctuation.

білсе last issue, I have nothing but good news in this area.

'- THIS ENTIRE PAGE was produced using WORD SINC 11.5.

With no small amount of help from Powell Hargrave, I have written the "11.5 enhancements" for Word Sinc, In addition ta the facilities of W.S. 11.4, this new version features presettable left margin, auta Fora-Feed with each раде, graphic logo design and custom font utilities, and a printscreen utility which copies the screen as 11 characters using printer graphics mode and the 1X ВОМ character generator, Eabedded printer escapes are transparent to the text justify routines.

8.5, 11.5 is written for the EPROM SERVICES Centronics I/F, and contains coaplete built-in driver software for the I/F card. Compatible printers include EPSON MX/RX80, STAR Gemini 101, Mannesaan Tally SPIRIT 80, and in fact just about any EPSON workalike. |

The EPRON SERVICES I/F is very adaptable. The I/F card holds a 32 byte PROM, which patches the ROM COPY#D routine to driver code that may run above RANTOP, or in the 8-i6K area. Having the actual code in RAM aakes it easy to POKE in CALLs to the new subroutines which provide graphics, custom font, and lett margin features.

Although the МЕМОРАК I/F uses full EPRON driver code, I will try to adapt ay new routines to it in the near future. Further refinements to Word Sinc will no doubt continue.

As soon as I can get final approval from Mr. Hargrave, and complete the Prograa Manual, Word Sinc 11,5 will be available from Integrated Data Systems, along with а separate printer utilities toolkit package.

ERRATUM: TX PRO/FILE must be POKEd as for а 752040 printer to

work properly with the E.S. I/F, not with the МЕМОРАК code аз

stated last issue. rect

& SOFTWARE NEWS by PETER M MULLIN for T.T-3-U-C-

MORE VIDEO UPGRADE STUFF:

John Oliger’s ZX@1 Video Upgrade has attracted a lot of attention lately. Contrary to ay postulations last issue, the Interrupt Vector is still used by the video system. Thus, it can’t be used to service other hardware interrupts, at least not if you need video!

All the other good things are true, though. The kit version is now supplied with single ЧУ, (4516) video RAM, so no extra power supply is needed.

John Oliger has supplied me with a very siaple sodification for the Gladstone 64K RAM, which makes it compatible with his scheae to run machine code above $C000 (48K), This will be printed next issue if sufficient interest exists.

Mr. Diger has several offerings for the 1181/T81000, including a great 64K RAM, EPROM Burner and Reader cards, à printer I/F, and Motherboards to plug everything into, Al} his products are available as bare PC board only, or with a complete parts kit.

The VDP, its crystal, and the required new ROM are NOT included with the Video Upgrade Kit, and aust he purchased separately. Here аге сове good sources:

JAMECO ELECTRONICS INC. 2175 ave d'ürleans, MONTREAL, Р.0: НІМ 351 1-(800)-351-8080 toll free

Јавесо sells the T.I. ТИБУФЕВАН VOP for $9.95 each. They also have very good prices on aemory ICs. Exaaples are 2764 EPROMS @ $5.75, HMOIIBLPS static RAMS 8 $4.79. Janeco will accept telephone orders, and are pleasant to deal with. Catalogue is free.

SAYAL ELECTRONICS

3791 Victoria Park Ave. #8,

SCARBOROUGH, Ont. МІН IK

(416) 494-8999 Sayal has the 10.7388HHz, video crystal in stock for under $5.00. They get an At rating as a hobbyist parts supplier. I have found 745 ICs and 180 peripheral ICs at SAYAL wher everyone else in town was out of stock, and the prices ari often the best around. Paul Sayal tells me he has a new M page catalogue, free for the asking. Significant discounts art offered on quantity orders 210 pieces.

You will need to provide your own new system ROK, which ausi be burnt into a 2764 EPROM. Although John Oliger supplies cassette tape (for Џ.5,66,95) with all his КОМ video cod aodifications, it is up to you to burn your own EPROM. Ther are other ROM debugs and enhanceaents which can also be вай at this tiae: see this months SYNCBITS colum, by la Robertson.

For those who do not wish to invest. іп ап EPRON burne (c'aon guys- well worth it!), I aay be able to provide thi service for a noainal fee. 7

You will need to obtain the sanuals on the Video Displa Processor itself. These manuals are available FREE from yov local Texas Inatruments Gales Office. (don?t до to а T.I Distributor: distributors will charge you for these books)

Phone T.I., 280 Centre St.E., Richaond Hill, LAC 181,

(415) 884-9181, and ask for aicroprocessor literature support Request Publication# MPO10A; The 9900 Series Video Displ: Processors Data Manual, and Pub.# SPPUOO4: the Video Displi Processors Pragrasser's Guide. Ап absolute wealth с infnrastinn ix contained in these manuals!

ЯНН1 NEWS cont... It is exciting to note that if sufficient interest in the

Video Upgrade is generated and зове enterprising programmers catch on, а new wave of high-speed, enhanced video software could spring up to take full advantage of the new VIP capabilities. 1 will be in contact with user groups across the continent in an attempt to locate, or initiate а VOP 516. For details on ordering your Video Upgrade kit and other hardware, write to: The John üliger Со, 11401 Whidbey Dr., Cumberland, IN 44229 U.S.A When writing to John, or any other 7/18 supplier, always include а SASE. If writing to the U.S. or U.K., send SAE and Postal Reply Coupons- get "еа at the Post Office. This is generally appreciated and greatly increases your chance of receiving a reply.

CENTRONICS PRINTER BUFFER

FINALLY: a great "dedicated" application for one of those extra ZXBis you have hidden in a closet!

One of the major drags in wordprocessing (ог spreadsheeting or file output) is having your computer “tied up" during long printouts. The solution is a "printer buffer" or "print spooler" which usually consists of a microprocessor, some RAM, and operating software which allows printer data to be sent to the extra RAM all at once. Then, the data can be sent along at printer speed, while the "host" coaputer is free to work on the next task at hand. In upcoming issues, J will present a construction project consisting of a dual-Centronics configured port, and EPROM reader. Software will be developed to allow input, storage, and output of ASCII data via Centronics communication,

The goal is a "smart" 16K or 44K print spooler ог "sideways ВАМ“ which can be used with ANY Coaputer-Printer or Data Acquisition systea using standard Centronics protocols.

Stay Tuned!

NOTEWORTHY SUPPLIERS:

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BOX 18414, Tucson, AZ 85731 U.S.A. .. shave acquired marketing rights for the Competer Continuas Buffered Bus Expansion Board, as well as the ZODEX АХВ! parallel 1/0 card. The Bus Board is U.8.$40.00 for bareboard

and manual, $42. for a partial kit, $80. for the complete kit.

Тһе bareboard seems like the best deal. Watch for more details on this interesting company.

TORONTO SOFTWARE WORLD

P.D. BOX ВА, Agincourt

Ont. MIS 3B4 «sère handling the Hi Res prograss for 7Ж81/151000 troa Software Fara in U.K. This includes 3 reportedly excellent gases which will be reviewed here shortly.

SIRIUS WARE

6 Turningaill Rd.

Lexington, HÀ 02173 U.S.A.

.is operated by Dave Wood. Dave has written a wordprocessing ав called WORD* for ZX81. In the process of documenting his program, he wound up writing a book entitled Machine Language Prograsaing On The 151000, Both the book and the prograa have received excellent reviews elsewhere. 1 hope to have copies to review soon. D.

HOT BASIC no.1 Have you ever wished the INKEY$ function could be used ta

check for a combination of two keys depressed at once?

Take heart, there is a nice way around this problem, The SYSTEM VARIABLE called LAST K, located at 15421-15422, returns a unique nuaeric value between 0 and 85553 for any key pressed, and also for just about any aulti-key combination! Therefore, in a program, you can use

PEEK 16421+256# PEEK 14422 instead of INKEY$. А practical example aight be using this to get a “diagonal” result by pressing two cursor keys at once.

This short listing will let you find values for different combinations of keys, and see how the principle works,

10 PRINT AT 5,0; "PRESS A KEY COMBINATION," 20 PRINT AT 9,5; "CURRENT LAST-K VALUE*

30 LET K= PEEK 1442142548 PEEK 15422

40 PRINT АТ 10,105" АТ 10,103 K

50 6070 30

Note: In LINE 40, 5 spaces between the quotes, You can record the values you get for use in your own prograas. Note that the "current" value is shown ONLY while you have the key(s) depressed.

HOT BASIC по.%

Here is another exaaple of How It Pays To Know Your System Variables.

The infamous 0 REM machine code line can cause probleas if it has had the two "NEWLINE" codes POKEd in to make the aachine code disappear from the listing. You aay find that while you can LIST a different line number, if you ENTER a new line, or do some EDITing, that 0 REM keeps popping up again and again. Very distracting, isn’t it?

We can fix the problea by POKing the SYSTEM VARIABLE called S TOP, at 16419. It holds the value of the top line number іп automatic listings. To do it, first determine the line nuaber of the first "normal" BASIC line after the machine code. For our example, let's say this is line 5. Follow these steps: LIST 9999 & ENTER POKE 14419,5 & ENTER

LIST 5 & ENTER Voila! So long as you don’t get careless and enter "LIST"

without a line nuaber, the display listing will behave noraally.

This technique can be useful in regular BASIC programaing, too. Can you see how?

ARE YOU ONE OF THESE PEOPLE?

If you don't feel that you're "getting enough" out of -the User Club, look for yourself in this little story by a famous author called ANDN.

This Story is about 4 people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.

There was an iaportant job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have, but Nobody did. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody knew Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. IT ENDED UP that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody rould have done. зк 3C зе 3E ЗЕ IE ЗЕЗЕЗЕ 36 JE JE ЗРЗЕ 36 36 ЗЕ ЗЕ ЗЕ ЗЕ ЗЕ EEE ЗЕ ЈЕ ЗЕ ЈЕ XE That's ау 12K worth for this issue! Until next tiae, have fun with your coaputer.

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Тһе 4.1.0. 14" colour monitor 16 SOld bu Gladstone and bu Consumers Distributing. I aot mine at C.D. for $1580 less!!! It iS apparently а substitute to the one shown іп CD's 84785 cataloa but it mau replace it Permanent!iu. For опіч $349 it 15 a bargain because it is capable of composite video, RGB video, of seperate video and alto has a sound amplifier.

did, however , run into a few faults. Firstiu, there is a bad misprint in the manual. If uou connect the colours їг,9, 61 according to Jutan, попе of them will be correct except Uhite and black, The labeling on the 8-pin DIM connector has red, green & blue mixed up. They Should be as illustrated On the next раде. The manual does not deal with 2068 signals, The circuit in the 2068 Technical Manual gives иг Combined H&U (horizontal & Vertical) sync. This Should be fad into the horizontal pin on the Monitör., The ROB Mode ча 1 СҺ Should be in the III position., Lastlu, the seperate screen adjustments inside mu manitor шеге incorrectly adjusted. They set the Level of еасн colour чип and can be found on a Circuit board mounted on the CRT socket, These are Labeled RED, GREEN and BLUE, I found that Blue had to be turned much higher then the others ta aet a good white colour, It is helpful to dizptau a band of each colour when adjusting these. Hote; when building the Sunc seperator circuit. the Last stage for vertical sunc is not required, In summary, it took a bit of trial and error but the resutts are crystal clear colours. Even in 64 columns, the letters are veru legible and have no coloured halos around them.

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СПЕ 5S aR е а ох атсск M ifor Zeal & 2068) Hanu and Spectrum ргичгата ‘gL Low ip the uzg ar a cursar jóustick, Here are tua ideas on Broviding s joystick port for а TXB1 or a 2858 using the Spectrum ПИ, The First method does not require building amy circuitry but your joystick must be пода 124, With the addition of tua diodes апа a dpdt switch „inside the joystick, it can be used as a regular јаме а Ск ог а cureor joystick. This verzatiilitu would be hand for а DOES, but for а 2х81 the switch coutd be Left out. ülthoush йы prototype version ‘per Formed Well wilh mu 2660. it Should be ced that the Cable “пп the joystick тач add епоџаћ 'tápacitance to cause Some keys nat to гегропа while it is plugged in. The second method if superior due to the use nf 4066 bilateral suitches. Here the joystick works on 5 valts апа ite cable Length is not impor-.. tant. Anu Atari-type unit will work, I built ту suitching circuit әп a board 2,5"$.75" and maumted it inzide the KEubnard Where all the input ү Lines шеге readilly available. Then I ran a cable from there to the maie joustick port which was attached to the side of the Computer, How I am really tookina forward із trying same f the thousands of zoftuare titles fof the Spectrum! FRED SCHAREL London Ти“ Club Looring INTO МА Е Pouc 2 45 b. | 9-9

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This is WSILS, an all-new version of Powell Hargrave's WS11.4, extensively re-worked by Peter McMullin. Contains complete driver code for the Eprom Services I/F, but can ђе EASILY set up to drive ANY popular Centronics I/F for 2181.

NEW FUNCTIONS INCLUDE:

“IMPROVED AUTO-REPEAT

-Fora Feed with automatic page OR from text

~Esbedded printer escape codes are transparent to text justify routines

~Autowatically adjusts to available КАМ size

~All printer-dependent codes are easily aodified -LEFT MARGIN permits multiple justified text multiple TABS, indents, outdents

“SEARCH, REPLACE, DELETE, МОМЕ functions provided 0911,96 has a very efficient bit-isage printer graphics utility built in. -PRINTSCREEN copies 1 graphics-capable printer! -Supports WordFont, a custoa-typefare utility -Plus aany other features.

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PRINTSCREEN as a separate utility also available for алу Centronics I/F,

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