Hi guys
For the past few years I have had this idea in my head of what I wanted to do with the TS 1000 and now I finally have the time I am going to use it as a time machine.
Starting next month I am going to look at one issue a month of Compute! (US computer magazine from the 80's) starting with November of 1981 and I am going to translate any basic programs or games they had in the magazine articles to run on a stock 16k TS 1000, just as if I was 16 again. Compute! magazine used to have versions of every game or utility listing they had for a number of systems, Apple ][, Atari 400/800, Commodore 64 & Vic 20, TRS-80 Model 1 (3) and Texas Instruments 99/4a. Towards the end of 83 they had a few TS 1000 listings but the market was changing and they started dropping smaller systems and only doing systems with 64kb or more ram and disc drives.
I will use an emulator because I do not feel like digging in the closet for all the parts but that is irrelevant. I'll use EO and save them as P files. I'll be sure to not use any special graphics modes or additional hardware, only what was available at the local K-Mart when I purchased my first computer, TS 1000, TS1016 and a tape deck.
It should be a nice trip down memory lane and as I complete each I'll post them here or somewhere along with the relevant article form the magazine.
Bill H
P.S. I am sure someone somewhere already did a lot of conversions of the programs - I am not going to look. They didn't have the internet in 1981 and I didn't have a modem for the Ts 1000 to connect to Compuserve or Dow Jones (old school - pre AOL) so I wouldn't have been able to look then, so I can't look now
Time traveling with the TS 1000
Re: Time traveling with the TS 1000
Good idea!
We´ll be waiting for this nice job!
We´ll be waiting for this nice job!
Re: Time traveling with the TS 1000
Whilst you're in the 80s, how about placing an advert for the ZXpand ?
Actually it sounds a good project - would be interesting to see what programs there are out there...
Actually it sounds a good project - would be interesting to see what programs there are out there...
Rich Mellor
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Re: Time traveling with the TS 1000
Awesome project!
To truly go back in time, you'd have to use the membrane keyboard and have vintage Dr. Who playing in the background.
Let me save you some typing. Back in the day someone flipped me a copy of the Compute! July 1983 listing for a game called Fortress of Adnil, which I laboriously typed in on the membrane keyboard and saved. Here it is below. There were a couple of typos in the listing, but other than that I have changed nothing; it is true to the magazine's original presentation.
That being said, it is not a particularly interesting game, and I'm afraid I was a little disappointed after doing all that work!
Best of luck in your endeavors,
Ian
To truly go back in time, you'd have to use the membrane keyboard and have vintage Dr. Who playing in the background.
Let me save you some typing. Back in the day someone flipped me a copy of the Compute! July 1983 listing for a game called Fortress of Adnil, which I laboriously typed in on the membrane keyboard and saved. Here it is below. There were a couple of typos in the listing, but other than that I have changed nothing; it is true to the magazine's original presentation.
That being said, it is not a particularly interesting game, and I'm afraid I was a little disappointed after doing all that work!
Best of luck in your endeavors,
Ian
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Re: Time traveling with the TS 1000
"Compute!" did cover the T/S 1000 occasionally, but the two main Sinclair magazines in the US were "Sync" and "Timex/Sinclair User." I have a number of issues of both (maybe all of T/S User) and am in the process of scanning them in for archival purposes. I have done three issues of both magazines. In these magazines, there is a fair bit of code to type in, in both magazines. When I'm done, I'll make the scans available some place.
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An excellent site would be https://archive.org/details/computermagazinesswensont wrote:When I'm done, I'll make the scans available some place.
I've spent many a megabyte downloading old magazines from there
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Great link oscar!
Just spent a happy afternoon looking through the Sync magazine archive.
Looking through the classified ads I was amazed at the amount of add-ons the Americans had for the Zeddy.
Moggy.
Just spent a happy afternoon looking through the Sync magazine archive.
Looking through the classified ads I was amazed at the amount of add-ons the Americans had for the Zeddy.
Moggy.