LISTing April 1994

Newsletter Newsletter of the Long Island Next Meeting Sinclair/Timex Users Group April 10

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COMING EUENTS: RIPRRRRPRRRIRRRRRRRRRERRRRARIRRII APR. 10, 1994 LIST MEETING.

MAY. 14, 1994 NEUPORT OL SHOW MAY. 15, 1994 LIST MEETING.

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THE NEXT MEETING UILL BE HELD AT THE ICE CREAM DISPENSARY {НАРУЕУ 5 STORE!

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A SMALL SHOPPING CENTER ON THE ШЕРТ SIDE OF THE RORD.

HEETING MINUTES

ЖҰЗЕЖЖЕ Е#+++5+ REPORTED BY: FRED STERN ман. 13, 1994

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THE MEETING URS CALLED TO ORDER |

BY HRRUEY HT 2:00PM

IN THE MAIL МЕ RECEIVED З CORRESPONDENCES, AND 1 НЕЦ5- LETTER ЕХСНЯМСЕ.

UHEN YOU SEND IN YOUR RENEURL, ае сиса T$2068, ETC... 18, 151000, GL

BOB GILDER ADVISED Us THAT HE HAS MADE HIS RESERVATIONS ат NEUPORT R.I. FÜR THE OL SHOU. KEN LANG ALSO INFORMED US THAT HE PLANNED TO ATTEND.

FRED TOLD HOW HE AND -DONALD LAMBERT OF ZXIR 9LIVE ALIVE ARE

SETS OF THE OLD NEUSLETTERS FOR HELPFUL REFERENCE TO BE USED BY THE TIMEX/SINCLAIR COMMUNITY.

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FRED INFORMED US THAT. НЕ RECEIU- ED Я СОР" ОР Я MAGAZINE CALLED

THE COMPUTER JOURNAL. IN UAS ам EXCELLENT ВЕТ ЕСЕ

IT ABOUT THE ZX-81 BY HR.

-KIBLER. - THE MAGAZINE IS DEDICATED, RAND

PROVIDES: SUPPORT TO THE OLDER CLASSIC- СОМРИТЕВ SYSTEMS LIKE OUR ВЕІ ОЧЕР SIMCRIRS ND TIMEX. IT TELLS COMPUTER HISTORY, EXPLAINS DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SYSTEMS, AND HAS Я GREAT CIRCUIT SECTION FOR US HACKERS. SUBSCRIPTION RATE IS£24.00 FOR ONE YEAR (6 ISSUES) ОБ $44.00 FOR TUO YERRS Е ISSUES).

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THE BALANCE OF THE MEETING 185 A TECHNICAL ROUNDTABLE ABOUT THE RERCO DICK DRIVE SYSTEM.

THE MEETING ENDED AT 3:30 PM.

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QL CORNER

January 12th 1994 was the 10th anniversary of the launch of the QL and thanks to the enthusiasm of the many users of the ОГ, we shall See many more years of Prosperity and development within the QL environment; Оп the QL- market, there „ате many new. software titles appearing; new- hardwate such ав the Super Gold ;Card, hard disk interfaces, mouse drivers, ап SCSI interface and whó knows what езе will appear in:the future. ы Е т

QUANTA is celebrating this anniversary with а dinner on Saturday, April 23rd, аз part of the Newcastle Workshop. Any member of QUANTA can attend and a charge of 810 per head in advance is required. Additional information appears in volume 11 issue 1 QUANTA magazine.

There has been a change for the location of the'Newport, RI QL show on May l4th. The show will be held at the Howard Johnson Motor Lodge in Newport. I don't have the complete address at this time, however, I will provide you with the necessary information plus a detailed пар of the location ( provided Бу LIST member Joe LaPunzina) in next months LISTing.

I made а reservation at Motel 6 in Newport - a single room goes for $33.99. Their telephone number is 401-848-9600. They will keep the light on for you!

I just received the latest issue of QL World magazine where they state in the "Editor's Notebook", page 9, that Miracle Systems Ltd., will demo in Newport, a SCSI card for the QL. I believe that a SCSI interface can operate a CD-ROM drive, and probably it will have provisions for a VGA or Super УСА monitor. This Will be the first demo for this interface!

On the inside front cover of QL World, Digital Precision, is advertising Miracle's new Super. Gold Card and displays а chart comparing the various features of the Super Gold Card to a bare QL, а Trump Card, and а Gold: Card. : Below are some of the comparisons: А 2

System - Ваге Trump Gold Super Features QL Card Card Goid Саха Speed 1х 1.8х 7х 25х! CPU 68808 68008 68000 68022 Clock Frequency 7.5MHz 7.5MHz 16MHz 24MHz Bus Width 8 bit 8 bit 16 bit 32 bit RAM fitted > 128Kb 896Kb 1,929Kb 3,968Kb Ram access speed Slow ок Fast Twice Fast PCB population V.High High V.Low V.Low . Physical dimensions -- . Momolith. . Full-size Half-size Half-size —— Lock-up frequency Quch! Occasional У. Rare Won't Battery B/U clock No No Yes Tes Clock Protection level N/A N/A Modest High Toolkit ІІ plus manual No Yes Yes Enlarged Sub-Directory support No No Yes Yes Parallel/Centronics Port Но No No Тез Spooler/Screendump/Ramdisk No Yes Yes Yes Speedup Switch (5сгеепё2) No No No Yes Future Hi-Res Graphics No Ы No No ." Planned Disk Drives Supported -N/A SD/DD 5 SD/DD/HD/ED 3S$S/DD/HD/ED. Мах No: of drives - LE esc 2 Sig 3 Ее 4-7. - Мах Sectors/disk N/A 1,440 6,400 6,400 Мах disk transfer rate. N/A Е 30Kb/ sec E 120Kb/sec 12ФКЬ/зес Peripheral card tolerance ОК - No сҮ МО с: OK г SCSI-2 compatibility to-be No -` No “но” Yes Miracie/DP Warranty | No No 2 years 2 years DIY/Kit Incorporability Yes No No Yes

Overall Rating Бу DP 2% 19% 38% 119%

Digital Precision (DP) із selling the Super Gold Сагі at £375 plus a 20%

no-limit software discount voucher and a free dust cover plus a free mystery DP

Program, Trade in from a Gold Card to а Super Gold Card will allow #125 off the ove price.

If you are interseted in purchasing or trading up to a Super Gold Card, Miracle will be selling.them at thé Newport show. If you would like to purcháse a Super Goid Card from DP, they are а the following location: Digital Precision Ltd; 222 The Avenue, London E4 9SE UK - Telephone: 44 81-527-5493.

See you next month, Bob Gilder

A FINAL UORD R*iiREiiffiRRRRIIERPRIRERIRIRRRRIG МУ NAME IS FRED STERN AND I AM THE EDITOR OF THIS EDITION OF LISTING.

ONCE AGAIN т-оамт- TO THANK THE MANY READERS WHO SENT ME DOCU- MENTATION LUHICH I NEEDED.

I HRUE BEEN RUNNING BEHIND SCHEDULE, BUT НОРЕ TO SEND DOCUMENTS AND PROGRAMS WHICH I PROMISED SOON.

THANK YOUS TO TOM зкарімзкі, AND BOB GILDER FOR THERE HELP AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS ISSUE.

В VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU ТО HRRUEY FOR HIS HOSPITALITY, AND THE USE OF HIS STORE FOR ООВ MEETING. ALSO ТО MIKEY FOR HIS--- CONTRIBUTIONS.

SEE YOU ALL AT THE NEXT MEETING.

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BANNER For The TS 2068

By Christopher Raynak

-This is a short program to print long banners А featuring large Characters on the 2040 print- ег. Unlike some other banner programs, you

do not have to type DATA Statements that contain each character's dot makeup.. This Program looks directly into-the ROM for the dot patterns. The 2068 stores each scan line Of dots as a single decimal number. This is unlike the TS 1000 which its dot patterns as binary i's and O's, In the 2068 ROM they start at address 15359, This program works with all characters except inverse and user defined and regular graphics

PAUSE 300 5 PAPER i: BORDER 1: сїз $ PRINT “Uhen entering your m 63339265 yoy must remember that ч oy асе timi-ted to 32 Characters

7 PRINT « User def. 3fapnics for

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гот зе (ош, а SAPER а: 3 ERINT "30 зах за“, 912"; 3: CLS 18. BRINT "Please enter your па sige, li INPUT C$. IF LEN с8532 THEN LET CS:C8(1 TO за) 12 PAPER 3: PRINT ят 83,0;"Your message is being proces$ed.". P APER 1

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m Muti? fint another пездаз 7 МЕЛ 88::І”-8841) ам” ОН n- THEN GO то 1088 548 “Same letter si 3: IF 8811) "N" OR &8$(1)z" N CLS : TO 358 сїз : 90 TO 10 1000 ПЕН зая жж азан жз» + 1818 РЕМ Memory vsede2Q4Q byles» 1980 REM «ағаға ка жені ы

BANNER 1000 By John Marion

The purpose of this program 18 to print out banners on your Timex printer using your 2X81 or I/S 1000. After typing in and running, Уоч vill be instructed to "ENTER YOUR MESSAGE TO PRINT". Now enter your message and press return. Next you will be asked to choose a "bit character". This 18 the Character which makes up the letters on your banner. After entering your choice of bit, your banner will, begin to print out. Choice 3 will use the Same letter for a bit as the letter it is currently: Printing. After your banner із finished, the program will run again.

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More One-Liners for the 2068

The "2068 Spirograph" routine drew a good bit of response íncluding a letter from Robert Hartung, former writer for SYNC magazine. He informs us that the routine 18 a variation of one which {8 at the top of page 472 оғ Morse, Adamson, Anrep, and Hancock's Essential Guide To Т/8 Home Computers. Another variation is this one Robert made up for SYNC the month Ziff Davis pulled the plug. 1 LET ра МТ (RNDEBI: LET ізім T 18н048): ТР psi THEN RUN 2 CLS : PLOT 85,27: ON ERR со TO 2: INK 1: PAPER p: BORDER IN T (ямбаЗ): BRIGHT IN (RNDS2): D ы E еди Order N әң ERR RESET : sTO

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The following short programs were borrowed from the Sinclair Timex User Groups Newslet- ter of the Boston Computer Society (Volume 5, issue 4). As you can see some pretty neat effects can be achieved using only опе program line with the 2068.

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