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Please send submissions to: Alvin Brandon

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RYTSE nirriirririiiiiiiiirikiiriri i НҮТБЕ meets the Monday ofter the LIST meeting at:

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Coming Events SESSESSSISCSSSSSSSS SSCS SS SSS 6 October 13, 1991 at 2:00 Pf: LIST Meeting October 19, 1891 ot 7:30 PR: НҮТБЕ figetin EESEREERRELRR ERE EL RER EERE SEES fleeting Minutes Ў Seotember 8, 199) 17973 77333 Harvey coiled the meeting tc arder at 2:15 PR, .

Bob flaiisy reported that the club's treasury is in good shape.

Suggestions and comments were given nhnut inst month's neus letter from the members in attendance i] would like to thank thes ond ali the members uho sent hack questionnaires lost month. You know who you ore, - Ed.j.

Some of the semhers spoke about their vacations during aur long

inssifieds FEELELLERELEL ELE REL EEE ELLER ERE This classified section is про абје to 011 LIST members free of charge. The only restriction is that it is to be used only for the seeking, selling, or sunpping of Sinclair, Timex, or Microfee Computer equipment, peripherois, and softuare. LISTing, LIST, and its Officers do not endorse, worrenty, ar guarantee any uf the items listed in this classified section.

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QL Flight, the flight simulistor For the Sinclair BL.

Contact LISTing Editor,

Alvin Brandon at (7118) 182-5538 as soon £5 nussihie.

I REED this program!

Irish PEE-10 blonk topes ot an incredibly LOW price. Cali Tom at 4516) 132-1823

WANTED:

An alternative terminan! program for the T/8 1000 with Byte Back AO-2 modem with lok to Бък,

Is there anything other than ZCONA (something that сап send and recieve upper and iouar case characters)?

Please contact:

Јозерћ P. Rampolin

2638 E. Monument Street Boitimere, AQ 21205

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Editorial носе УЕ Hello, again. Last month, I

put а questionnaire in our neusietter. I uns surprised at the response I got. I got lots and 10 5 af suggestions, gripes and comments. 1 tried four different formats for this

months neusietter (yes, 4 complete

and different newsletters)? until I come up with this one. [ tried to implement as many of the suggestions ns I could. I am in the process of redesigning the

summer break. One member went troveijing through Eastern Europe and sew in tuo computer stores sdeertisements for Timex

Front cover with а graphic artist Friend of mine, as шві! as getting more pictures and graphics to

liven up the text in our neusietter. These changes will take time before you get tn see nii of them, out

they are on their uny. If you hove any more comments nr suggestions, piense feel free to coll or write uns described in jast months to me. I uili бе more than giad to issue and efter seeing the listen, and wil! appreciate your demonstration, I can tel! you help.

it is well worth its weight -Rivin Brandon, Editor

in Goid (pun intended). fetnils can be seen in the 8L Corner on page 10,

Bob Gilder then demonstrated the new expansion boord for the ML coiled the Gold Cord. It

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REVIEW OF THE MIRACLE SYSTEMS GOLD CARD

Once I observed the Gold card ‘in action' I realized that it was wrongfully named; I would have called it "Тһе Miracle Card’. The speed-up of the QL when loading a large program such as Professional Publisher was astonishing - usual loading time for this program (340K of files) is 2 minutes and 15 seconds using a Trump Card. Now it loads in just a fraction under 30 seconds!

All of my documents (ASCII files) are prepared with The Editor. On occasion I will export a text file into Quill and save it as a

«дос file for other QL readers. Anyone who has imported files into Quill knows that once Quill starts importing, it's time to go for а cup of coffee or whatever. If you have а Gold Card on

order, you are in for a surprise.

А seven page text file of approximately 22K, using the extension .exp normally takes 4 minutes, 15 seconds to import into Quill. The Gold Card imports the same file in less than 40 seconds!

I use Turbo Quill, 2.35, which is much faster than version 2.1 which was packaged with the QL. Using the up/down cursor keys scrolling through a document with the Gold Card is ап amazing thing to behold. Within several seconds you've reached the bottom of the first page - and so on through the entire document. With version 2.1 it's a little slower. All of the commands respond faster and are carried out with the same speedup, especially the Copy command. Using the Gold Card, Quill now becomes a very respectable word processor.

'Conqueror', the IBM emulator, provides you with an excellent QL-IBM Clone when accompanied by the Gold Card. Conqueror loads very quickly; in approximately 30 seconds, as well as MS DOS version 3.3. Loading time for three different IBM word processors is comparable with a PC, however, I personally believe that Quill is much better and easier to use than Galaxy, The Writer and Mind Reader word processors that I've used.

Reading and writing to Disk is also very much accelerated. Sometimes I have had to wait a few seconds for the disk drives to complete the saving while the QL was ready for additional processing.

The Gold Card comes with an updated and readable version of the Trump Card manual and a three page Gold Card Supplement. This is because all of the Trump Card features have been incorporated within Gold Card operating system plus some additional features - The backup battery operated clock (what a joy!), three disk drive capability (which can be expanded to 4 drives with the Miracle Disk Drive adaptor - optional), and additional commands pertaining to disk drive and hard drive operation (I will cover these next month).

All-in-all, the Gold Card has performed as advertised. For me, no more running out of memory, no more def_temp files when loading a large Quill document and no more time wasted waiting while importing text files into Quill.

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See you next month,

Bob Gilder 9/3/91

Q LINK ~ А program review by Tim Stoddard (Re-printed from October 1987 LISTing with an update.)

For some time I have looked for а good terminal program for the QL that included XMODEM. I have tried one other program that had XMODEM but with unfavorable results. Q LINK is not only good and well thought out, but it actually works!!

The features are:

Menu or quick-key access to commands

XMODEM or ASCII (with XON/XOFF) file transfers

Built in EDITOR accessible from within comm

Alterable SER device on-the-fly

Text in buffer is MARKable for selective uses

Configurable Modem commands

Auto-dial and re-dial through modem commands

20 user-configurable MACRO commands

40 phone number storage

Multitaskable

NO COPY PROTECTION The one major drawback of the QL is its serial ports. I shudder whenever I look at the schematic of that section! The task is handled by two LSI chips already burdened with other functions. The recieve part of the serial section is handled by an 8749 ІС, which also handled the keyboard scanning. Іп fact, there is only ONE RECEIVE PORT! This port is shared via multiplexing the handshaking signals for the two ports. This has really caused programmers grief trying to write a good telecomm program....

Harvey Taylor's solution....

Q_LINK is an excellent solution to the QL's telecomm dilemma. Using the MODAPTER PLUS at 300 baud worked well, as expected. The MODAPTER PLUS at 1200, however, was a flop! I then wired up a cable, as described by Harvey in his very good manual, and 1200 baud then worked. I used this cable for the remainder of my observations in this review.

Following the manual I BACKED UP THE COPY, and then added my Signons, BBS numbers, and modem commands for my Hayes compatible ADC modem, to the copy of Q_LINK. I dialed up a local BBS (MicroLink) at 1200 baud, and performed my 'normal' activities without loss of characters or garbage. So far, so good. Command access in this program is GREAT! While learning to ‘get around' you can use the quick key method that exists for most commands (i.e. <CNTRL> + <SHFT> + <S> sends a file via XMODEM). Both methods co-exist so you can still use MENUs in little used areas that you might forget a month from now.

XMODEM Since this is the part of the program I'm most interested in, I spent a lot of time with it. While in the local BBS I

downloaded а small file via XMODEM at 1200 baud. It worked beautifully! Next, I warmed up my trusty CP/M+ based machine

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and hooked up the QL directly. On the CP/M+ machine I use IMP (Improved Modem Program), which is опе of the latest public domain XMODEM programs. I dida series of xfers at 300, 1200, 2400, aand 9600 baud via XMODEM and ASCII xfer. The results surprised me! ASCII xfers worked in both directions at all speeds with only an occasional dropping of characters at 9600. Adding a small time delay after LF on the host (CP/M machine) cleared that up! XMODEM xfers worked in both directions and at all speeds except 9600. It is sure nice xfering a file via XMODEM at 2400! The only problem I did notice was if the QL's serial buffer overflows you'll get incomplete messages from the host. This was mentioned in the manual and the only way out is....RESET.

EDITOR

The built-in editor is used to manipulate the text buffer in the program. Although it doesn't have ALL the features, it does the needed job. The only thing that confused me at first was the MARK function. The manual just stated what it did, but not how to use it. To use, simply position the cursor to the start of the block to be marked and execute <CNTRL> <S> (or go through the menus), then position the cursor to the end of the block to be marked and execute <CNTRL> «E? (or go through the menus). Now you can use any block oriented command such as PRINT or DELETE to manipulate the marked block. It would be nice to see a visual change in the MARKed block, such as a change in the text color, so that I can easily SEE the block that is marked, HARVEY?? Printing the buffer is straight-forward although your printer must be The manual is complete and well written and although the finish is not high quality, the PROGRAM IS! I would highly recommend this program to anyone who is serious about telecomm or inter-computer xfers. It is worth twice the $19.95 that is charged (Harvey, you didn't read that!).

-Тіп Stoddard

EDITOR'S NOTE:

As of the first publishing of this article, Meta Media Productions, the publishers of Q_LINK, have released 0 LINK version 1.556 as SHAREWARE. What this means is that copies can be passed along freely among members. If any members like the program, they can register as owners and receive:

1) a copy of the excellent manual,

2) telephone support,

3) news about updates,

4) further support wares such as UNARCH, UNCRUNCH, etc.

The cost is only $15.00 and you will help Кеер one of our great Sinclair programmers interested in staying with us. Send your check or money order to:

META MEDIA PRODUCTIONS

726 WEST 17TH

VANCOUVER, BC.

CANADA У52 179

-Alvin Brandon, Editor

нн Editors Note: This is only а partial 4

fist. It vill be continued next

This is n list of names, addresses ond phone numbers ІП anf issue. IF you have a timex or Sinctair effort to put you іп touch with the пвпрів who provide the product or service that you wish to products and support you may need, ond uho in return needé inform people about, or if you know your business. Dive thes a coll, buy n program or tuo. flakes about somebody uho wasn't mentioned,

some neu friends, but most of nli, Keep On Timexing!!!

$ drop me a iine at the address LISTed

ННННИННННИНИНИНИНИНИННННИНИНИНИВИНИНИННННИНИНИНИНИНИНИННННИН on page 2. -Alvin Brandon, Editor

Н.Ғ.Е Enftuerg

1605 Pennsylvania Ave. #20%

fias! Bench, FL 33138 (3032 591-6464

T/8 1000 and 2058 Softunrg

Byte Fouer

1198 fendnuuieu Ave, Pickering, Ontario CANADA 110-368

T/8 2058 Utilities nnd Graphics

Jack Qohoney

380 Rutherford

Reduood City, CA 94061 Custom 1/9 2068 Softuare

Ed Grey Enterprises РО 80x 2186 ingieunud, CA 30305 (212) 199-1405

Т/8 2068 Softuare

LARKEN Electronics RR#2 Havan, Ontario CANADA K4B1H9

(513) 835-2680

T/S 2068 Disk Drive horduare and softuore,

Frank Locichort

ЛЕ North Ford Rd. #31 Mansfield, OH 44905 Engineering, Scientific, ond Gomes softwere

ПОЛ Enterprises "B South Moson Bogingu, M 48602 (3175 191-1088 Software

Jahn Achicheai

1110 Рајвег Orive Laramie, WY 82070

(301 142-4530

T/8 2088 color printing softuore

Mountaineer Software 1743 Hill Street #6 Parkgrscurg, WU 26109 C304) 824-7272

T/8 2068 softuare, inc. Pixel Print upgrades.

Jahn Oliger Company 11601 Whidbey Dr. Cumberiond, IN 46229

T/8 2068 disk system ond hardunre devices for the T/8 2068 ond 1000,

RAG Enterprises

1419 172 "th Street

Oregon City, OR 97045

(509) 665-1484

The largest 1/5 deoler in the U.S. Hard/Saftunre

for ali T/8 and Sincinir GL computers,

Zune Custom Electronics 4800 E. Cedar tone Norman, DK 73071

(405) 966-8995

T/8 2068 hardunrg and software,

ЕЛ50ЕТ

PQ BOX 8753

Boston, ЛА 02144

(8173 8858-0830 Professionol BL software

Sharp's Inc.

РО 808 326 flechanicsville, UR 23111 Hardunre/Saftuarg for BL

John Hemmer

HERI Box 50-A

Mellette, 50 57461

(605) 881-3240

Repoirs on ali 1/5 computers

Eric Johnson

289 Н, Harden Ave.

Grange City, FL 32153

(904) 1153-4335

Т/Б hardunrg and repairs (sgg Profile in next month's issug!)

Promise Land Electronics

Rt. 1 Box 111

Саћоо!, 10 55689

(3145 133-1112

Repairs and custos modification іп Timex and Sinclair BL computers.

SHORT PROGRAMS FOR ALL!!!

А collection nf progroms for the T/S 1000, Г/5 2068-Spectrom ned Sinrinir BL computers.

QL Screen dump for Gorilla Banana Printer

100 REMark FHKE ДЕА АЕ АЕ ЕРЕ ЊЕ

110 REMark ** SCREEN COPY ROUTINE for Gorilla Banana Printer 120 REMark ** by Gyro Byrns takes 15 min to print 130 REMark ** sized for screen area from Peintre program 140 REMark Kc e c occ e ook e oe e oec ke eoe oe ORO e eo Ke o e III Ik kik ok kok X 150 АТ 10,10: ІМРОТ"5сгееп to be loaded?":name$ 160 name$="mdv2_&name$&" Qsc" 170 REMark ** change if not using Peintre which adds " Qsc" to screens saved." 180 MODE 4:WINDOW 512,256,0,0 190 LBYTES name$,131072 200 INPUT"PRINT THIS"N" (Ү/М№) ";І$ 210 IF I$=="N":STOP:END IF 220 END IF 230 OPEN#5,seri 240 df-131072 250 df=df+110:REMark ***** last column position (scan down start) 260 REMark Also changed col from 64 to 56 270 time-DATE 280 PRINT#5 , CHR$ (8) 290 FOR col=1 to 64 300 r$-'" 310 FOR count= 1 TO 240 320 REMark Full screen would be 256 down. GB printer max width 480 (240) 330 t=(count*128+df ) 340 incl 350 t=t+1l:incl 370 a=PEEK(t) 380 a=255-a:REMark Makes inverse image so print is same as screen 390 IF a«128:a-a4128:REMark 7 BITS ТО GB graphics 400 r$-r$&CHR$ (a) 410 END DEFine incl 420 NEXT count 430 PRINT45,r$;CHR$(0);CHR$(13);r$ 440 PAN 7 450 NEXT col 460 PRINT#5,CHR$(15)\ 470 PRINT45,(DATE-time);" seconds" 480 CLOSE#5 490 REMark **easy saves of modifications ** 500 DEFine PROCedure savit 510 a$-2'"mdv2 coscrDBL" 520 DELETE a$:SAVE a$ 530 END DEFine

Thanks to Gyro Byrns for this usefull program!!!

-B-

Program one is called Screen Wipe+. Number two is called Dissolving Display. It "hides" and "reveals" any display at random screen locations by pokeing attribute file according to a random list of non repeating numbers (1-704) with white ink on white paper and then with black ink on white paper.

Thanks to Roy Wisti of Voluntown, CT for these routines.

Program One

10 LET а=0: LET Б-0: LET х=255: LET y=175

11 OVER 1

20 PLOT a,b: DRAW х,о: DRAW O,y: DRAW -x,0: DRAW O,-y 50 LET а=а+1: LET b=b+1: LET x=x-2: LET y=y-2

31 IF 82175 THEN GO TO 10

40 GO TO 20

Program Two

10 REM DISSOLVING DISPLAY

11 REM Programmer: Roy Wisti

20 DIM b(704)

29 REM Fill b() with 1-704 sequentially 50 FOR f-1 TO 704: LET b(f)=f: NEXT f 59 REM Swan array elements

chosen at random. The larger

the loop, the less sequential

the order of the array.

40 FOR Ғ-1 TO 500

SO LET r=RND*703+1: LET s=RNDK703+1 60 LET c=b(r): LET d=b(s)

70 LET b(s)=c: LET b(r)-d

90 NEXT f: BEEP .05,1

94 REM Place something in

display file (a listing or

graphics of your choosing).

95 LIST 91

99 REM Fill attribute file

with WHITE ink & WHITE paper

following random order created

in bO, "hiding" display.

100 FOR f-1 to 704

110 POKE 22528+b(f)-1,BIN 00111111: NEXT f 119 REM Do the same but with

Black ink on WHITE paper,

"revealing" display

120 FOR f-1 to 704

150 POKE 22528-Ы(Ғ)-1,ВІМ 00111000: NEXT f 140 GO TO 100

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"DRAW",

1000

9680 9682 9684 9685 9687 9689 9700 9710 9712 9720 9722 9723 9730 9735 9740 9742 9745 9747 9750 9755 9760 9770 9775 9780 9782 9785 9787 9790

5 REM "DRAW" PRINT "INPUT X. INPUT X

CLS

PRINT “INPUT Y. INPUT Y

CLS

LET V=40000 (19000 LET Z$="STARCH" GOSUB 9990

LET X=X

LET Y=Y

LET 2-0

LET Z$="PLOT" GOSUB 9990

IF INKEY$="5" THEN IF INKEY$="8" THEN IF ІМКЕҮ$="6" THEN IF INKEY$="7" THEN IF INKEY$="0" THEN GOSUB 9990

GOTO 9730

LET Z$="UNPLOT" GOSUB 9990

IF INKEY$="5" THEN IF INKEY$="8" THEN IF INKEY$="6" THEN IF INKEY$="7" THEN IF INKEY$="0" THEN

(MAX.

a drawing program by John Herriott for ZX81 and T/S users with the Memotech HI RES Graphics board:

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192)"

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LET Х-Х-1 LET Х=Х+1 LET Ү=ү-1 LET Ү=ү+1 GOTO 9770

LET X-X-1 LET X=X+1 LET Y«Y-1 LET Y=Y+1 GOTO 9730

9800 9810 9990 9991

GOSUB 9990 GOTO 9770 RAND USR 8192 RETURN "Ricochet" is a pattern program by James J. Hollandsworth NeCODE "Н" A-CODE "E" G-NOT PI E-RND*VAL M-RND*VAL X-RND*N Y-RND*A

"4"-VAL "4"-VAL

n2 Mas

IF X<G THEN LET X=G

IF Ү<6 THEN LET Y=G

IF X>N THEN LET X=N

IF Y>A THEN LET Y=A

IF X=G OR X-N THEN LET E--E IF Y=G OR Y=A THEN LET M--M GOTO PI*PI

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3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

June 4, 1991

Long Island Sinclair Timex Group (LIST) c/o Harvey Rait

5 Peri Lane

Valley Stream, NY 11581

Dear Harvey Rait:

We offer refilling Deskjet black ink cartridges. Send us your empty cartridges (in their original protective packaging) and a check for $8 per cartridge. We will return them refilled by U.S. mail to any U.S. address you specify. We will send them in a safely padded mailer.

Before returning the cartridges, we will test them on our printer. We've spent a considerable amount of time finding a suitable ink, which is also water resistant. Each cartridge can be refilled at least twice and sometimes many more times. This letter has been printed from a cartridge refilled by us.

Printers this is used for:

HP DeskJet

HP DeskJet Plus DeskWriter HP DeskJet 500

m Y

This method is a convenience for you, our customer. You don't do any messy refilling. We provide the ink and do the refilling for you, at one low price (postage and handling included).

Please note that our method of reusing cartridges is good for the environment, as well as for the pocketbook.

The life span of your cartridges is lengthened by rapid reusage of empty and refilled ink cartridges.

Send to: Beth Kinnmark 1860 Sherman Ave., # 2-МЕ Evanston, IL 60201-3732

If you have any questions, call (708) 475-5367.

Sincerely,

(ДАДА. Kemnmarte

Beth Kinnmark

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