ICAGO AREA TIMEX

USERS

GROUP

NITE-TIMEB NEWS.

VOLUME 2 3 ISSUE 6 JULY 198

NITE-TIMES INFO

The Nite-Times News is the newsletter of the Chicago Area Timex Users Group. It is available as a Public Domain feature of the Sinclair Survivalist BBS (312)473-9415, If you are nol a CATUG member and desire to have a hard-copy sailed to your home, please provide $6.00 per year to cover the cost of postage. For an annual fee of $10.00 you can become a CATUG ‘enber with full membership privledges. The Chicago Area Timex Jsers Group is pleased to exchange newsletters with other Timex and Sinclair supporting users groups. If you desire to reprint any articles that appear here, please provide credit to the author and this newsletter. If you have any suggestions or would like to submit an article, you may upload it onto the Sinclair Survivalist BBS and leave a message about it with Sysop Gary or write to:

The Chicago Area Timex Users Group Nite-Times News Editor

18854 Yorktown Avenue

Great Lakes, Illinois 60088.

ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE

August CATUG Meeting

Nite-Tines Classifieds

On The QL

Tasman Printer Interface Pokes

Timex Tidbits

Sinclair Migration

Using T$-2068 Joystick Ports With Art Studio CATUG Library Notes

Tinex/Sinclair BBS Directory

CATUG Member List

AUGUST C.A.T.U.G. MEETING

The Chicago Area Timex Users Group meets on the third saturday of each month in the Downers Grove Public Library's Conference Room, from 12:00 to 5:00. The next meeting will be on the 20th of August. The library is located at 1050 Curtiss Street in Downers Grove. The CATUG representative for this meeting is Steve Cooper and he can be contacted evenings at (312) 968-3553.

DIRECTIONS FROM THE NORTH: Take 1-294 (Tri-State Tollway) south to 1-88 (East Vest Tollway). Ürive west on 1-88 and exit at Highland Avenue. Take Highland south about three ailes, during which it's name will change to Main Street. You will cross the Burlington-Northern tracks in downtown Downers Grove and turn right (west) at the next street (Burlington). Proceed one block to Forest Ave. At the intersection of Forest and Burlington is a public parking lot. The Library is located one block south of Burlington at the intersection of Curtiss and Forest. Please note that Burlington is a one-way street (westbound) and Curtiss is a one-way street (eastbound).

DIRECTIONS FROM THE SOUTH: Take I-55 (Stevenson Expway) to the Lenont Rd North exit. Take Lemont Road north about four ailes during which it will merge into Main Street. As you go into downtown Downers Grove, you will pass Curtiss Street, and turn left at the next intersection (Burlington), which is the last street before you cross the railroad tracks. Proceed one block west to Forest Ave. At the intersection of Forest and Burlington is a public parking lot. The Library is located one block south of Burlington at the intersection of Curtiss and Forest. Please note that Burlington is a one-way street (westbound) and Curtiss is a one-way street (eastbound).

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NITE-TIMES CLASSIFIEDS

The Nite-Times Classified Ads are a service provided to all of our readers. Please submit your ads prior to the 15th of each month. They may be mailed to the Nite-Times News or sent to Sysop Gary via the Feedback Message Base on the Sinclair Survivalist BBS (312) 473-9415

Poi Pod d FOR SALE

Fully operational rebuilt Т5-2068 computers for $50.00 each. These machine come without cables, manual or powersupply. They include a thirty day warranty. For more information, contact: Етіс Johnson 249 N. Harden Avenue Orange City, Florida 32763 (904) 775-4935

3 d$ 11: 1

FÜR SALE

AFFORDABLE HI-RES PLOTTING for the 75-2068 and Commodore 1520 four-color printer/plotter! The plotter can be found at Toys-R-Us stores for $29.95. Iterface hardware (from bareboard to assembled & tested) as well as utility software for screen to plotter praphic transfer, banner making, and word processing are available from:

John McMichael

1716. Palmer Drive

Laramie, WY 82070 A large SASE gets you more info and a sample plot.

to: g i d FOR SALE

QL FLIGHT ($17), HOPPER (810), HYPERDRIVE ($), CAVERNS 2 ($10), and BLAST BUGGY ($10). All five are available for 40.00 plus $2.00 for shipping if you are out of town.

Al Feng

15 Vake Robin Ct,

Woodridge, IL

1:3» 1293 1 FÜR. SALE $65.00 752068 Computer $65.08 Gorilla/Banana Printer $20.00 Т52040 Printer $50.00 152050 Modem $15.00 Wico Trackball

$35.00 Aerco Printer Interface $10.00 GE Cassette Recorder $60.00 Large collection of software and books.

For more information, call Gary Lessenberry at (312) 473-9415.

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ON THE QL By Butch Weinberg

Well here I am again with more information concerning ay (and hopefully your) QL. This month I'd like to highlight the software library of the Quanta User Group. Ever since I received it, I have been diligently pouring through the Quanta library where I've been finding lots of interesting treasures. For those of you who use ARCHIVE, there are three QUILL document files (anote.1, anote.2, anoye.3) which give you generic eamples of how to do things with ARCHIVE such as how to add fields to you database (supposably, this can't be done, but it works!). There is also the PAGE DESIGNER program which is an earlier version of the commercial program by the- same паве. Although it is not as good as the commercial version, there are two prograas that go with it. The first one is IMAGE LIFT EXTRACTOR which allows you to take colour graphics, decolour them, and then remove a segment of them to use in PAGE DESIGNER. The second program, IMAGE LIFT MANIPULATOR, takes the images that were removed by the first program and allows the user to rotate it and vary it's size. The Quanta Library has over 100 utility progaas (many are similar), over 50 gases (many are similar), graphics prograas and auch amore! Some of these are public domain and I have added them to the CATUG QL Softvare Library. ж

Public Domain Software Documentation:

This month, as promised is a review of ay Listing Program. The latest version of this program is disk based. Upon booting, you are prompted as to what medium the program that you want to list is stored on with several options (tape, disk, RAM or other) displayed. You select an option by pressing a single number. You will then be prompted for the program name and it vill be merged for listing. Your target program will then be listed along with part of the Listibg Program so that you can see the last line number.It will then ask for the program naae again in case the actual program name and the name you load by are different. I have found it helpfull if I put the. паве in quotes first. Next you will be prompted for the last line Number so that you only list your program. YOu will also be proapted for the nuaber of copies before printing. After printing is complete, you will have the option of loading and listing another program at the prompt. Next aonth, I will have documentation for pri dir. :

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TIMEX TIDBITS

2X-Appeal reports that Fred Nauchbaur is stepping down from the commercial side of the Timex Sinclair community. He does however, still intend to remain a strong supporter of the machines. (continued on page 3)

TIMEX TIDBITS continued from page 2

The CATUG has received catalogs from the following dealers during the past month: Speedysoft (United Kingdom), Jack Dohany's Fairware, Sharp's Inc, The John Oliger Company, and А+ Computer Response. In the A+ catalog, QLs are being offered from $75.00 (kit fora) to $89.00 (complete system).

Another reminder not to miss the summer events taking plate for the Tiaex-Sinclair community. The GREAT | NORTHWEST TIMEX/SINCLAIR MINI-FAIR will be held at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Portland Oregon on August 6th and 7th. For more information, or write to THE GREAT NW TS MINI-FAIR, 1419 1/2 7th Street, Qregon City, Oregon 97045. Later in August, the Great Cleveland Sinclair Users Group will host the TIMES-SINCLAIR-AMSTRAD COMPUTER USERS 1988 MIDWEST REGIONAL CONFERENCE. It will take place at the Beck Center For The Arts in Lakewood, Ohio on August 26th and 27th. For more information write to the Greater Cleveland Sinclair Users Group, Glenbury Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio 44197.

David Hoshor in Cleveland has managed to write a Kermit protocol for the QL! Yes indeed! Very impressive. It operates as a stand-alone terminal program. And he said he got it operating at 2400 BPS with no problems.

Jay Seigle reports that there are still quite a few 15-20685 and 1515005 available from the Brooklyn Closeout Corp, Clymer `t., Brooklyn, NY 11211, tel: 718/963-2377. He said that they do haggle their prices and advises that you call and push for your best price!

I just got a letter from John McMichael today where he says he has mated an Ükiaate 20 color printer with his 152068 via his Commodore 1520 adapter board! The Ükimate 20 is a color printer that can wake 5-10 inch printouts on paper or transparencies. He says that he has software to allow for color or black & white screen dumps as well as allowing Qkiaate printouts from Mscript version 5.

Опе of our CATUG members, Jerry Cohler, has been the victum of a heart attack. Fortunately, the attack was not fatal. Jerry has been released from Presbyterian St Lukes hospital and he is enjoying a peacefull recovery at home. I behalf of the entire CATUG, I want to wish Jerry a speedy and complete recovery!

The Sinclair Northamerican User Group, (Snug), has the green light as is taking in names for membership when it begins. Тһе main objective for the group will be to standardize a few of the mass storage media formats (probably with LKDOS) and technical support for all the sinclair and Tiaex computers. Also, a public domain software library will be available either by bbs or by disk, depending on the input from the members. They also hope to have listings of members close to you for local support. There will be special sub-sigs for each type of computer. [f you need more info, or would like io be put on the list, please contact: Mel Nathanson, 7515 Arbordale Drive,

ort Richey, FL 34668, tel: (813) 863-5552.

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Keith Sheehan is trying to get a Sinclair Sub-baord going on the Cyclops BBS. All the SYSOP needs is 5 Sinclair entusiasts in order to get one going. If you are interested, leave the SYSOP EMAIL on the Cyclops BBS telling him that you would be interested in the Sinclair-subboard. The Number for the Cyclops ВВ5 is 839-5002.

News from Phoenix Pete: Well, as it turned out it was а good thing I didn’t fly to Boston just to see Sir Clive speak to the Boston Computer Society...he didn't show up. Instead, he sent...can you guess??? Nigel Searle! Yes, it's true. Apparently Old Nigel tried to beat it out of there as soon as the presentation was over, but a contingent of the local sinclair enthusiast tracked hia down and made him let them try out the computers....In other news, There's a new BBS on the Block, this one's іп New Jersey, the Newark area and PC Pursuitable. The name is Passaic BBS, it has 90 Megs online and an EXTREMELY cooperative sysop. The nuaber is (201) 471-6391 24 hrs. [t has a T/S message base, and T/S download area.

TASMAN PRINTER INTERFACE POKES Provided By Randy Kuhn

Here's a few pokes to use the tasman printer interface with шеге and Hot 2 disassembler. First, have the basie loaders for the programs load the copy software into the printer buffer. (The version that starts at 23296)

For Mtera;

Poke 54445,0 54446,91 This will allow you to print out online when you hit Caps Shift and 8 and then hit P to print.

For Hot 2 (High version):

Poke 51806,0 51807,205 51808,0 51809,91 51810,201

For Hot Z (Low version):

Poke 30303,0 30304,205 30305,0 30306,91 30307 , 261

SINCLAIR MIGRATION 1 By Anthony J. Oresteen

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The purpose of this software is to convert Sinclair 21-81/15-1000 programs to ASCII files. The 24-81 stores all of it's Basic files as TOKENIZED files and are unreadable by most other computers. Опсе the programs are converted to ASCII files, you can port the programs to any system that uses ASCII progran. files.

Please note that this program will NOT translate Sinclair BASIC to any other BASIC language. You will have to do that yourself. It's not hard but you should use an Editor like QUED/M to do global replace, search etc.

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Assumptions:

1. It is assumed that you have ап RS-232 adaptor for your 25-81. The Nemotech R$-232 is the one I used. Тһе 21-81 modes software is written for the Memotech device. You may have to modify the software if you are using a different device.

2. It is assumed that you have a communications program for the Macintosh and that you have hard-wired the 24-81 directly to the Macintosh. I used Smartcom 11 and a home made cable.

3. It is asumed that your 24-81 program does NOT containe 2-80 machine code embedded in a statement and that your program does not have a line numbers greater than 8999.

4. If your 2Х-81 program has a line number 118, it will be translated as line 6 after line 117. You will have to change the line number after the program has been converted.

Using Sinclair Migration:

1. Connect the 2X-81 to the Mac with a direct cable. 2. You must add the following code to your 21-81 program. If you are trying to port a program that is un-listable on the 25-81 try this:

A. Put the 2Х-81 in FAST mode.

B. TYPE RAND USR 836

C. Start tape. Tape will load and give an error C

D. Type LIST and there is the progran! Enter the following code to the 2X-81 program:

9000 THIS WILL MOVE PROGRAMS OUT VIA THE RS-232 PORT

9001 LET P$="60011016, 60001000"

9002 RAND USR 10900

9003 LET T$=""

9004 FAST

9005 FOR N-16509 TO ( PEEK 1639642561 PEEK 16397)

9006 IF PEEK N=118 THEN GOTO 9910

9007 LET Тӛ-Т% 578% PEEK N+", "

9008 NEXT N

9009 GOTO 9915

9010 RAND VSR 10895

9611 LET T$= CHR$ 118

9012 RAND USR 10895

9013 LET T$=""

9014 NEXT N

9015 SLOW

(NOTE: This is for the Memotech RS-232 Module !!!)

3. Start the file capture on the Mac. This is the INPUT file. Remember what you save it as. 1 use the following naming convention "program/TOKEN" so that I know it is a tokenized file.

4. Enter RUN 9000 on the 23-01. The program will read ег

byte and send it out the RS-232 port. The Mat should гесе.

data that looks something like this: 0,20,2,0,249, 0,38,14,0,233,63,13,16,31,30,126,134,0,0,0,0,17,

2,0,233,59,16,35,126,131,96,0,0,0,17,

3,0,241,40,57,20,33,28,126,134,72,0,0,0,

7,0,233,38,13,16,40,57,26,29,28,126,132,32,0,0,0,17, 0,65,17,0,233,39,13,16,40,57,26,29,37,126,133,24,0,0,0,17 etc.

(NOTE: Each number is a TOKENIZED value of 21-81 BASIC.) Sinclair Migration will convert these tokenized files to ASCII. The converted file will look like this:

20 RAND

30 DIM 2$(32)

50 DIM FC)

55 (ІМ V(7)

58 LET CT=5¢

60 DIN ASCCT, 10) 65 DIM B$CCT,19)

(Note again that this is pure Sinclair 2-81 Basic syntax.) 5. Once the 24-81 program ends, finish saving the^ input file on the Mac. ў 6. Run Sinclair Migration on the Мас. Select Open from under the File menu. Select the file you just downloaded from ' 21-8! (Input File/Tokenized). Enter the name you want for the ASCII file. The progam will default to add the extension of "ASCII" to the input file name. Select save and your file will be converted to ASCII. Note that the tokenized file is not changed; a new file is created with the ASCII text.

7. You now have an ASCII file of your 21-81 Program. It is fairly easy to translate it to ZBasic syntax. This program was written in 2Ваѕіс and I reccomend it.

Here's where to get the software mentioned:

1. 2Basic (Cost approx $89.00) ZEDCOR, Inc 450@ East Speedway, Suite 22 Tucson, AZ 85712-5305 tel: (800) 482-4567

2. Qued/M (Cost approx $89.00) Paragon Concepts Inc 4954 Sun Valley Road Del Mar, CA 92014 teli (619) 481-1477

I have enclosed the ZBasic source code for those who might want to write a siamilar program for a MS-DOS or CP/M system. (continued on page 5)

SINCLAIR MIGRATION 1.01 continued from page 4

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REM 1 REM Х COPYRIGHT 1987 BY Anthony Oresteen 4 REM t 452 Orion Rd, Batavia, IL 60510 USA 1 REM t (81: 312/879-5608 1 REM 1 ł REM t А Donation of $5.00 is asked if YOU keep 2 REM t this program . Please send your tax de- 2 REM t ductiable donation to: 1 REM 1 Holy Cross Parish 1 REM 1 313 East Vilson ST 1 REM 1 Batavia, IL 60510 1 REM 1 USA 1 REM 1 1

REM firi ntn un nnd nin n i un gi bun n n n n d REM THIS PROGRAM IS WRITTEN FOR THE ZBASIC COMPILER 4.0 REM SET OPTIONS AS FOLLOWS:

REM DEFAULT VARIABLE TYPE SINGLE PRECISION REM DEFAULT DATA TYPE 'TEIT'

REM SPACE REQUIRED AFTER KEYWORD

REM OPTIMIZE EXPRESIONS AS INTERGER

AEM ALL OTHER OPTIONS OFF (BOXES NOT SELECTED)

REM ІЗ STANDARD MAC SETUP 41111331111 CLS :

FLUSHEVENTS

COORDINATE WINDOW

DEFMOUSE=1 : CALL SHOWPEN : TEXT ,,,0

WINDOW OFF

APPLE MENU "/About Sinclair"

MENU 1, 0, 1, "File"

MENU 1, 1, 1, "/O0pen"

MENU 1, 2, 1, "/Qiuit"

MENU 1, 3, 1, "/TTransfer,"

MENU 1,4,1, * Shutdown] *

EDIT MENU 2

REM ------------------ OPENING WINDOW DISPLAY --------------- WINDOW 1,"*,(160,110)-(352,202),-2 : ТЕХТ 0,12,0,0 PRINTS (30,16) "Sinclair Migration"

PRINTS (22,35) "r 1987 A. Oresteen’

PRINTS (45,75) "Release 1.01"

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DIM 10 TOKENS(256)

FOR N = 6 Т0 255

READ TOKENSCN)

NEXT N

LET TOKENS(11) = CHR$ (34) : REM PUTS QUOTES IN ARRAY: CAN'T 00 IT

WITH A READ STATEMENT!

DELAY 1000

WINDOW CLOSE ! |

MENU ON : DIALOG ON : BREAK ON

ON BREAK GOSUB "QUIT"

ON MENU GOSUB "MENUCHOICE"

ON DIALOG GOSUB "GETEVENT"

REM 1133 HERE WE ARE WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN 132111341

" GLOBALPAUSE"

REM fIHPPEEEHHEEEHEEEHEEEEEEDEEEEE EE EEE E E E E EE E EE E EE E E EN REM THIS IS THE MAIN EVENT LOOP. IT TRAPS ALL EVENTS (DIALOG etc. )

REM TIHTPHIIPPAITERI EY IN P IEEE II I4 ІІ P233 G3II2IIII E: GOTO "GLOBALPAUSE"

MENU OFF : BREAK OFF : DIALOG OFF

"GETEVENT'

WHAT = DIALOG (9)

IF WHAT = | THEN GOSUB "BUTTON"

RETURN

REM f NOW WE BRANCH TO THE WINDOW WHERE THE EVENT TOOK PLACE 1 *BUTTON"

WHERE = WINDOW (0) .

IF WHERE = 5 THEN GOSUB "WSBUTTON®

RETURN

REM онон REM HERE VE TRAP THE MENU SELECTIONS !

REM TIikkDEETERIYI P Y IY III IY I Y I YI SY IP iz ii fI2NI INN YI TAN l:i " MENUCHOICE" |

МЕМ)

LET LASTWIN = WINDOW (0)

MI=MENU(O)! H2=MENUCT)

IF М1=255 THEN GOSUB "ABOUT"

IF MI = | THEN GOSUB "FILE"

RETURN

"FILE"

IF М2= | THEN GOSUB "OPEN'

IF М2= 2 THEN GOSUB "QUIT"

IF M2- 3 THEN GOSUB "LAUNCH"

IF M2= 4 THEN GOSUB "CRASH"

RETURN

REM --------- GET INPUT FILE ----------------- NAMES$ = FILES$ (1, "ТЕХТ", 005) : IF NAMES$ = "' THEN RETURN (continued on page 6)

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OPEN 18,1, МАМЕ5%, 1000, VOLE : 2$ = NAMES$+" ASCII"

REN ---------- GET OUTPUT FILE ----------------

NAME2$ = FILES$(@, "Save 2Х-81 Program asp ,28, V0L21)

IF NAME2$="" THEN CLOSE 4! : RETURN

OPEN "0",2, NAME25, , VOL2%

HERE WE CONVERT THE INPUT FILE -------

WINDOW 2,"Sinclair Migration”, (20,50)-(492, 200), 261

TEXT 4,12,0,0 : LINECOUNT=1

PRINT: PRINT “Converting Sinclair ZY-8l Program: ";NAMES$;" Т0 ASCII"

PRINT : PRINT "Lines Converted: " : CURSOR=4

"GETDATA"

INPUT $1,T,S,U,V 1 LNUM= Tf25645: LANGTH=U+256x4

IF LNUM = 9000 THEN GOTO "END"

TEMPS=STRS(LNUM)+" " 1 TEMPS=RIGHTS( TEMPS, LEN(TEMP$)-1 ): REM REMOVES SIGN BYTE

N=] ; NUM = @ (PRINT #2, TEMPS ;

FOR N = 1 TO LANGTH-1

INPUTET ХХ:

IF XX = 126 THEN NUM =]

IF NUM = 6 THEN TEMPSZTOKENS (XX) : PRINT #2, TEMPS:

IF NUM =} THEN INPUT#I,A,A,A,A,A ; Ns N45 : NUM = 0

NEXT N

PRINT #2, CHR$CIS);

PRINT % (120,57); LINECOUNT : LINECOUNT=LINECOUNT+1

INPUTET , XX

GOTO "GETDATA"

"END'

CLOSE | : CLOSE 2 : CURSOR=@ : PRINT : PRINT "DONE!" ; BEEP DELAY 4000 : WINDOW CLOSE #2

RETURN

REM 11122111137 Begin Quit Menu ARSAREALRELALELSAAAAAL f 3 1: 9 3:1 "QUIT"

REM ---- HERE WE EXIT. END

REM ------------- End of Quit Menu --------------------------- REM 21111111311 Begin Transfer Menu КИТТЕН I ZA i ÀI£: "LAUNCH"

LASTWIN = WINDOW (6)

Current$z FILES$ (1,"APPL", , VOLS)

IF Current$ = "' THEN RETURN

SHOULD CLOSE & POST FILES FIRST! ----

RUN Currents, VOLS

RETURN

REN -=en End of Transfer Menu -=--------------------

REM 4214244444% Begin Shutdown Menu ХИНИН "CRASH"

CLOSE SHUTDOWN

Dun

End of Shutdown Menu --------------------

НЕҢ -----------

REM 4244434444 Тһе About Menu ЖЖ ИЗИ "ABOUT"

WINDOW #5, , (60,50)-(450,320),-2 : TEXT Б, 18, 0,

PRINTS (60,20) "Sinclair 21-81 Migration" TEXT 6, 12, 6, PRINTS (160,40) "Version 1.01 (10 Nov 87)" PRINTS (100,60) "-1987 Anthony Oresteen” PRINTS (100,80) "All Rights Reserved" PRINTS (10,120) " Shareware fee $5.00" PRINTS (10,149) " Please send your fee to: PRINTS (40,165) " Holy Cross Parish’

PRINTS (40,185) " 313 East Wilson St" PRINTS (40,205) " Batavia, IL 60510“

PRINTS (40,225) " USA"

ТЕХТ 4,9,0, 1

PRINTS (297,259) "2Ваѕіс 4.00"

BUTTON #11,1,"Тһапке!", (285,200)-(370,220),1 RETURN

"USBUTTON"

WINDOW CLOSE £5

RETURN

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SINCLAIR MIGRATION 1.91 immediately by the normal Art Studio "studio ac", then you can continued from page 6 proceed as follows: MERGE "studiol". DATA " LLIST "," STOP "," SLOW "," FAST "," NEW "," SCROLL ", Stop the tape as soon as 'studiol" has loaded. "CONT *,* DIM” Add the following lines of BASIC: DATA " REM "," FOR "," GOTO "," GOSUB "," INPUT "," LOAD ", 142 LOAD "studio ac" "LIST *,* LET 144 POKE 31999, 1 DATA " PAUSE "," NEXT "," POKE "," PRINT "," PLOT "," RUN”, 146 STOP “SAVE "," RAND " RUN DATA "ІР", CLS "," UNPLOT "," CLEAR "," RETURN "," COPY " Restart the tape to load 'studio ac". Rewind the tape and remove. If you have any questions write to me (enclose a SASE): Insert the tape containing "scan" and play. Anthony J. Oresteen Remove lines 142, 144, and 146 452 Orion Rd 8070 1025 to SAVE and VERIFY the revised code. Batavia, IL 60516 4443444443 PROGRAM LISTING 1111 1 1 д1 ---------...............................-.....:ГЗ4.. ADDR НЕСШЕ LABEL MNEMONIC USING THE TS-2068 JOYSTICK zz22z22222z2222z2222222222222222222z222222222z PORTS WITH ART STUDIO A063 3ЕР7 күй LO A,F7 A065 ВЕЕ IN А, (FE) This is the second of two modifications that we are aaking to A067 47 0 ВА - Art Studio. Last month, we removed that annoying LENSLOK A068 ЗЕВЕ LD A, BF protection from our loader program. This month, we will aodifiy A66A DBFE IN А, (РЕ) the machine code so that ме can control our Art Studio cursor Me6C (Р LD C, A 3 with both keyboard and joysticks that are plugged into the A060 — 3EEF LD A, EF 78-2068 joystick ports. It is important to note that although Ae6F — DBFE IN A, (FE) ‘ou will be using the 2068 joystick ports, you still must be in А71 57 LO 0,4 apectrum mode to use Art Studio. ' 4072 AF | XOR A The keys that I have chosen for cursor movement and action A073 CBSA BIT 3,0 initiation (FIRE) are listed below. These keys are built into A075 2002 JR N2,4079 thae wachine code and can only be changed by rewriting the A077 F604 OR 04 code. A079 CB62 BIT 4,0 FUNCTION KEY A078 2002 JR NZ, AQ7F Up 7 A070 Ғ608 OR 08 Down. 6 . A@7F 860 BIT 4,8 Left ; A081 — 2002 JR NZ,A@8S Right 8 A083 F602 OR 92 Ғіте ENTER А085 (852 ВІТ 2,0 The joystick works normally, it сап be plugged into eith A087 2002 JR NZ, AQ8B joystick port or seperate joysticks can be plugged into each A089 F6el OR 01 port at the same time. Ae8B СВАТ BIT 6,C Type this code in using HOT Z (while operating in 2068 mode). 980 2002 JR М2,4091 SAVE "scan CODE 41059,121 on-a spare tape or disk. The new code МӘРЕ — F6le OR 16 will replace the existing code used with the Interface 2 and А091 — 87 OR A Kempston joysticks. A092 2929 JR NZ, LOAD The way to insert this code into Art Studio machine code is A034 ЗЕФЕ JSTK LD A, OE simple: A096 03Р5 QUT (F5),A LOAD Art Studio machine code (in Spectrum aode) А098 01Р603 LD BC,03F6 LOAD the "scan" code on top of it. A098 ED78 ІК A,(C) POKE 31999,1 8990 47 LO В,А SAVE the revised code. AQSE — AF XOR A If you have wade a tape with the BASIC loader program, Ae3F (878 BIT 7,8

itudiol* (from last months article) on it, followed (continued on page 8)

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USING THE TS-2068 JOYSTICK TIMEX/SINCLAIR BBS DIRECTORY PORTS WITH ART STUDIO (JULY 1988) continued from page 7 A041 — 2002 JR 2,4045 BULLETIN BOARD NUMBER NOTES RATES A643 F610 В Л---....................................................... А05 — (840 BIT 6,8 CR S DER RP (201) 956-7703 8L D * 15/14 4047 2002 JR NZ, AGAB YOUR AVERAGE REMOTE BB$ . . . . (213) 327-9424 8L D €. 17/15 0490 F604 OR 04 GREY MATTER BBS... ...... (213) 971-6260 880% 17/15 AGAB (84% BIT 1,8 STARTEXT. ........... (214) 877-1041 8 M $ 16/15 AGAD 2002 JR NZ, A081 FWU& МВВ5. .......... (214) 540-4163 8 D f 16/15 МАҒ F698 OR 08 TIMELINES 885... ...... (216) 671-6922 8H 0 1. 15/14 AGB] (850 ВІТ 2,8 CLEVELAND FREE-NET BBS... . . (216) 368-3888 7 L t 15/14 A083 2002 JR NZ,AQB7 KINGS MARKET 885. ....... (303) 665-609] 8 8 0 € 16/15 4085 F602 08 92 SINCLAIR SURVIVALIST BBS. . . . (312) 473-9415 8L D ё ----- 87 (858 BIT 3,8 ASTRAL PLANE 8BS........ (312) 476-7785 8L 0 @ ----- A089 2002 JR NZ,LOAD PEOPLE-LIN .......... (800) 826-8855 8L D $ ---- ABB — F60l OR el COMPUSERVE. 2... (312) 443-1250 7HD$ ----- 40800 320FAC LOAD LO (ACOF), A SERIAL PORT BBS. ....... (313) 286-0145 8 H D 15/13 aoco — C9 RET ACCESSSLINESBBS ........ (317) 841-7072 8 M D 14/12 AeC| — 06 NOP ЕСЕЛІК Тұ PAE (415) 571-6911 8 8 D € 16/14 0002 — 90 NOP RS. BBS.. eee ee (503) 656-8072 8 Нё 17/15 (300% NOP IIS EIE аа (505) 522-7081 8 L D 17/15 ма % КІР TIMEVARP BBS (PWSGORT). . . . . (515) 282-4169 8 820 15/13 ACCS — 00 NOP CITYLINK TOWER. ........ (604) 222-2000 8 Hr 16/14 юв — 00 NOP NICHOLSON NIGHTIME NETWORK. . . (604) 354-4666 8 H D 32/27 A0C7 @ МР OVEGÜ FREE ACADEMY BBS... . (607) 754-3420 8 L D 16/ 4008 — 00 NOP TCCS (РЫ=с1іме"). ....... (607) 785-2118 8 L D 16/15 Aec9 0 MP oC THE TIMEVARP BBS... ..... (617) 481-0555 7 L D € 16/15 Meca 90 NOP ПЕН ВЕТ, (617) 648-7651 8 L t 16/15 юв — 00 NOP Н!В8$........... (792) 644-6910 8 M D 16/14 мс” NOP NIGHT BYTE BBS... ...... (718) 627-1293 8L OS 15/14 00 % А МР MICROLINK 885... ...... (718) 648-3502 8 L D 15/14 AOCE — 60 NOP THE BUS DEPOT BBS... st (904) 262-6761 8 L D 16/15 AOCF 0 NOP юн % КІР TEEHEEEEE EE HE E EE EE EE E E E E EE E E E E E EE HE EG E EUH E ERE E E EE SE ACD] — 00 NOP 4602 — 00 NOP TIMEX BBS DIRECTORY LEGEND A0D3 9% NOP A004 0% NOP 7 PARAMETERS = 7/E/1 8 PARAMETERS = 8/N/1 805 — 00 NOP O ТІМЕХ FILE TRANSFERS L LOW USAGE Т/5 М56 BASE AeD6 % NOP M MEDIUM USAGE T/S MSG BASE H HIGH USAGE T/S MSG BASE A007 0 NOP $ SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED $ OPERATION DURING EVENINGS 0008 #09 МР Ф ACCESSIBLE VIA PC PURSUIT 7 DOWN UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE A009 — 00 NOP i доа — 60 NOP RATES ARE THE CHARGES FROM CHICAGO FOR THE FIRST MINUTE & EACH 080% NOP FOLLOWING MINUTE AFTER 11:00 PM AND ON WEEKENDS.

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CATUG LIBRARY NOTES By Gary Lessenberry

KEN DUDA:

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UNLISTED The Chicago Area Timex Users Group Library has received the (312) 971-0495 following listed articles from other user groups via our newsletter exchange. The newsletters with these articles will be

available for check out at the monthly CATUG meetings.

1. CATS Newsletter (June 1988)

24K Internal NVM (751000 Hardware Proj)

2. SLUG Newsletter (June 1988) Tasword-2050/RS-232 Modification Printer Programming

3. 1.5.Т.).6. Newsletter (May 1988) Spectrum Repairs 2068 Graphics Exercise (Prog)

4. HATS Newsletter (June 1988)

5. WCUC User Amuser (June 1988) BiT/S n PC's

6. FDD Express (July 1988)

7. The Hacker (June 1988) . Computer Virus Hits Sinclair Fanily

TI 39/48 Graphics Conversion For T/S 2068

Checkbooker (752068 Prog) 8. PACC Talk (June 1988) Timex Sinclair Names In The News ^. Timelinez (June 1988) QL User Defined Graphics 10. 2X-Appeal (June 1988) RLE Graphics Guide Four Stroke Engine (152068 Prog) Playing With Electricity

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