80 Microcomputing – Volume 25 – January, 1982
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When computer executives talk about the “Information Revolution,” they may be stirring the ashes of Uncle Karl without really knowing it.
The Canadians have adopted the European approach to videotext-an approach that doesn’t always take into account the wants of the proletariat.
Readers slightly blue from holding their breath waiting for the followup to Ms. Grothrnan’s first piece may at last inhale.
For those of you who read our November business issue and thirsted for more, imbibe: Dan Keen and Dave Dischert introduce you to Cobol and explain spanning disks on the Model II; Edwin Dethlefsen shows you how your pocket computer can become an investment portfolio; John D. Eaton (*) helps you track the rising cost of materials; Jerry Rutledge (*) makes tabulating survey results easy; and Steven M. Zimmerman and Leo M. Conrad (*) write about manipulating loans.
For those of you frustrated by CLOADing for the last time, a potpourri of disk drives from the mini-floppy to Winchester technology.
Applications
Charles Atlas In your Pocket Computer.
Happy Birthday from your Pocket Computer
Games
No city on earth is safe!
A venerable game in a new box.
General
For Model T fanatics only.
Hardware
Install Model III internal drives.
Build a low cost plotter.
How to end them.
Without Model I hassles.
Make them kissing kin.
Interface
El Cheapo light pen.
Reviews
. . .when you hook your Color Computer into CompuServe
A look at Radlo Shack’s plotter-printer.
A machine-language monitor.
An auto map you won’t use with your car.
No, not another new product from Kitchen Table Software.
Technique
There’s no money in these dollar signs, just graphics.
Look like a programmer. Be a programmer.
Have Computer Will Program
Make that loafer work.
… with the help of computer interrupts.
A lesson in a Basic function
Tutorial
A look at randomness
Utility
For the Walter Matthaus among us.
Fast data transfer of BASIC data.
Cyclical Redundancy Code for Tape
Stop raising your hackles over glitched disks.
Pack your records before committing them to tape.
Grafting it to a printer
Save and Recover.
Variables are where you find them.
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80 Microcomputing – Volume 26 – February, 1982
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Micros are becoming more pervasive in the nation’s schools. What does the silicon classroom mean to the future of education? Some observers see bright skies on the horizon, but other forecasters see ominous consequences in today’s trends.
When nine and a half year-old author Tailman was getting bored because her mom was on vacation, she decided she’d show her dad she could write a computer program and make money by writing an article.
Most educators recognize the power of microcomputers, but unless educational software is carefully designed with an eye on life in the typical classroom, micros can become a center of frustration.
For the physically handicapped the computer is new hope, new independence and new opportunity toward lessening the gap between what they can and cannot achieve.
No, you don’t need a new kind of math to achieve this feat of prestidigitation. Just a few lessons on cramming and the 1K of unassigned memory in your CPU.
Business
Stock market simulation.
Calculating the cornerstone of management.
Education
Where there’s a will there’s a way.
Fast graphics in the classroom.
So It won’t be a question mark.
Where’s Johnny now?
Making exams easy.
Everything you ever wanted to know about this solar system.
Enter the Great High School Chemistry Hero.
Networking in the classroom.
Speaking In Tongues.
A program that programs you.
Avoid getting your feet wet.
Don’t let this program make a monkey of you.
General
A mind boggler.
A game of siege.
General
Make your own mayday.
Eliza and Micromusic make it to disk.
Your computer can make all the pieces fit together.
On loading cassettes.
If Pythagoras only had a TRS-80.
. . .and bachelor number three is..
A technique for tracking execution.
Getting the most from Electric Pencil and Line Printer IV
Graphics
Graphic Entropy.
Hardware
The $100 net
Technique
Fast graphics bring you to the top of the world.
Review
Trouble for Tandy?
Better than ever.
For the Model I and III
Speed up writing machine language.
More MHz for your Z80.
Tandy enters the Big Leagues.
Excellent with beautiful features.
Tutorial
Pick up some more with this program
Utility
Off those irritating abbreviations.
Dealing with life before lowercase.
Keep column headings from going over the edge of night.
When trace isn’t enough.
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80 Microcomputing – Volume 27 – March, 1982
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Brace yourself to be wowed when two of our editors team up to create some graphics to dazzle the eye.
When told a Color Computer, printer, and CompuServe don’t mix, this author was determined to do it.
Creating a Color Computer version of Othello was going to be a simple little project for Tony Ledger, but he soon discovered it wasn’t as simple and little as he thought.
As long as Bob has been plotting surfaces, he’s wanted to create a decent sphere. At last he has and now you can, too.
After seeing what Bob Boothe did in black and white, this author thought it would look twice as good in color.
There’s been an ironic symmetry in the wacky life of 80 Micro’s affable Englishman, an irony echoing a Vonnegut novel.
Applications
Easy find for sequential files.
Manipulating the new estate tax law.
Business can be colorful.
Education
Put it in your computer.
Teaching light theory.
The enemy below on your Color Computer.
Shooting flying saucers.
Play your computer in Othello.
General
Model II vs 5150.
Analysis of variance.
A change of heart
Mail order disorder.
Graphics
Geometric shapes in 4K.
If you have a digital plotter.
Draw silhouettes on your 80.
On a Line Printer IV.
Have fun on this 80, too.
Drop-out graphics.
Hardware
From 4K to 16K.
Adding 16K of RAM.
Piggyback RAM chips.
Or a single-board micro.
Two heads are better than one.
Building joysticks.
Or a plow for your CRT.
Technique
An error bypass.
Do the software impossible.
Tutorial
Byte off more than you can chew.
All on a 5.25.
How to handle them.
Utility
Beat graphics boredom.
Monitor your color programs.
For the tiger in your printer.
Program padlock.
A patch for a popular program.
Disk I/O in Assembly.
No exit is a good exit.
Stick shift in your 80.
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80 Microcomputing – Volume 28 – April, 1982
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Speak of the Devil! Dave says he’s received such a demand for KT1 products that he thought it would be a good idea to produce … er … acquire some. Here is his first offering, an item he says is “a significant technological regression.”
In Stamford, CN, American business is owning up to the confidence President Reagan has placed in it to help the disadvantaged, and using computers to do it.
Some observers of the computer scene contend there isNo computer humor, but David Busch doesn’t seem to haveNoticed. Our roving jokester takes his eye off the infamous Kitchen Table Inc. to talk about himself.
Here they are-assemblers, editor/assemblers, monitors, disk zappers, renumberers, tape utilities, file utilities, and m
So you’re aNew kid on the block and your idea of a utility is something you own in Monopoly. Well, Uncle Jake, who has written a few utilities in his day, will help open your eyes and your mind.
Business
Giving the usurer his due.
Education
Cramming – Silicon style.
An end to the reign of the yardstick.
Games
A test of memory and keyboard dexterity.
General
A little summer reading.
Even computersNeed a change of venue.
Modifying Wuebker.
How they work.
Planet O2 where are you?
If you are a carpenter.. ..
Hardware
A lowercase chip in search of an 80.
Home/Hobby
Beg for mercy, Mr. Whipple.
A program to make cat burglars yowl
Review
More for $100 less.
You don’t have to shuffle off to Buffalo to get one.
Toro for your tube.
Five spelling checkers compared.
The price Is right for this quintet.
Technique
For the lazy among us.
Syntax doesNot a programmer make.
FORTRANNever forgets.
Series
Manifest in the silicon sun.
Utility
Learn M/L from a 14 year old.
CP/M, Cobol and compatibility.
Machine language loading In the fast lane.
Error-trapping homebody.
Run silent, GOSUB.
Disk routines from Basic with ease.
Read this before you throw your keyboard against the wall.
SAVE SYS FORMAT.
What Tandy left out.
Take a PEEK at your 80’s ML routines.
Found at last
A monitor like the big boys.
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80 Microcomputing – Volume 29 – May, 1982
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When film makers want special sounds, they call on sound and video studios like Jay Rose’s. And Jay and other studio technicians look to their micros for help in creating special effects more real than real.
What do you get when you cross a changing angle with a changing radius? According to Commander 80, computerized psychedelca and some sights to dazzle the eye.
The use of micros for special effects in motion pictures has been widely publicized, but there are other uses for micros in Tinseltown.
If you have a Model I with disk drives, a synthesizer with nine simultaneous voices can be yours for $125.
Are you in the mood to learn how computers got in the GROOVE?
Business
Money Merlin for your Model II.
Education
Learning by hunches.
Relax while your 80 does your testing.
Games
Highballing in the void.
General
Your 80 and stereo can make beautiful music together.
Guitar chords on your 80.
Teach your 80 to sing.
Not Fair, Odd Disease, Runs Good, et al.
Handicapping your golf game.
From Union NJ, with love.
Unto each rhythm there is a sine wave.
An 80 keeps track of your guest for 80.
With a Model III-pantograph hookup.
Can’t get enough of that silicon wine.
Garbage in may really be garbage-out.
Graphics
How a designer’s nightmare became a sculptor’s dream.
The shadow of your CRT.
Say it in sign language
Hardware
Avoid the homebrewed look.
Home/Hobby
Play it again, Pablo.
Your 80 as tipster.
Personality
Some call it fate, others Kitsz-met.
Review
Looking for Arthur.
All the ingenuity under the rising sun.
Build your own.
Cadillac for the Color Computer.
Eliminate LSET, RSET, MKS$ and CVI.
Parlez-vous machine language?
Add RAM to your I.
Series
Data hierarchy, computer history and misconceptions.
Technique
The number-name dichotomy conquered.
When the string breaks on your Chatty Cathy …
Tutorial
Read this before you run.
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80 Microcomputing – Volume 30 – June/July, 1982
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In a muddle over giving your 80 telecommunications capability? Author Derfler will tell you why you might want data communications for your micro and how you go about doing it.
After getting an eyeful of “Hi there, I’m new! How do you work this, anyway?” on CompuServe’s CB simulator, 80 Micro’s KT1 Inc. expert thought it was time to explain a few things to a few people.
If you’re new at computing or have been beeping for six months or so, author Chidsey has prepared a six-part series to help you over the rough spots. In this installment, he talks about memory-high and low.
In May’s 80 Micro, Jake showed you some eyecatching color graphics. Now in a reprise, he’ll tell you how to firm up your graphics technique and do some wowing of your own.
In the Ohio hamlet of Tiffiny, a small-town paper has entered the micro age. Learn how the staff puts out the video equivalent of a 150-page newspaper every day.
Business
Telemarketing for your micro.
Education
How everything got up to date in CSD 22.
A program for rolling your own.
Learn road signs with the Color Computer.
Games
What are the 57th St. Whiz Kids saying?
Tic-tac-beep
General
An addendum to Klungle’s index
For computerists who are HAMS
Bulletin boards from the word go
Model II printing prestidigitation
Let your 80 help you play the airline travel incentive game
PRORAN also runs
A self-producing program for the mother in your 80.
48K easy as pie
Your 80 can be a tough taskmaster
Sorting business from pleasure
Hardware
Skeleton talk from your cassette port
Hello, Don’s away; would you like to speak to his computer?
Building on Fortna’s interrupt Mode 1-1/2
Slow, but better than dot matrix.
Home/Hobby
Lazy fingers
Personality
How Connection-80 was born in Woodhaven, NY.
Reviews
When you want to go beyond Basic programming with your color machine
Throwing some water on a mainframe witch.
Three for the load
New power for your 80
55 million records and not a song among them.
Explaining its functions
Radio Shack vs Ecosoft
Three software packages for the small businessman.
Series
A tape version for 50 records
Easy COMS, easy goes
Correcting a mix-up from last month
Technique
Liberal use can conserve memory
Looking at that function for the Model II.
How to modify the Basic interpreter’s functions
Tutorial
Never get lost again with this path-tracing program
Keep your porgrams from looking like a spiral stairacase
Utility
Odeledee -O!
Transforming dialects of Basic
Disk directory for the Model III
When you want more than getting down
A terminal program in a language we all understand.
Let your 80 run your bases
Let your Color Computer turn machine code into Basic.
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80 Microcomputing – Volume 31 – August, 1982
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Tri-Lizards, flying hotel rooms, and other evils face Commander Harry A. Flynn in this latest adventure. Enjoy playing and then learn how to write your own adventure step-by-step.
Summer is time for the great outdoors. But you find it hard to tear yourself away from your computer, right? With these two outdoor games for your 80, you don’t have to.
This begins a three-part serties illustrating the great versatility of Tandy’s CC. In this installment, 21 graphics programs help you learn how to draw with Radio Shack’s powerdul little machine.
While you’re lounging around the pook soaking up the rays, here’s a cool reminder of what’s waiting for you on the slopes come November.
At an early age, Leo Christopherson saw his future in his dreams. Also his inclinations in blowing up walnut shell ships and playing the accordian
Hollywood has taken us into outer space, under the ocean, to the center of the earth, and inside the human body. Now it’s taking us inside a computer. What it finds there you won’t discover by taking the case off your 80
An ancient game of stones and stratefgy for you and your computer to play with. Also, learn some rudimentary artificial intelligence techniques as applied to choosing and programming this game
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Tired of thumb-blisters and misplaced colors? Let this program guide you to a finished cube once and for all
Swab the deck, hoist the mainsail, and all that rot, it’s war on the high seas. For this duel at sea you need dual computers.
For board game gans, here are six individual games. Get board with one, then go on to the next.
The galaxy is in danger and you, Captain Kirk, have been ordered back into action. The Federation has taken the Enterprise out of mothballs and you’re off to battle the Klingons.
The author of one of the best reversi games for a micro explains why computer play the game so well.
A refreshing back-to-basics game for your CC. no aliens, underground monsters or bad guyts, just a bunch of walls to bump into.
Brickout, Poindexter, Mathtalk, Tank-Gun and PixPrint. CC games and a screen dump utility.
Take out your aggressions on enemy subs rather than on your fellow office workers.
A classic air and sea battle with you in the cockpit of a helicopter.
Keep your money in your bank account and turn your 80 into a less costly one-armed bandit. Programmable odds should keep the coins piled high in your favor.
Simple to play but hard to master, in short a real frustrator. Betcha can’t play just one.
Making puzzles can be as fun as solving them using this program. Send letters or party invititaions to your friends in pizzle form. The possibilities are aggravatingly limitless.
Roam the west, east, north, and south in search of an imprisoned princess in this Kung Fu-style adventure
The evil Kalxons have implanted a mind control device in your brain and have sent you on a mission that could lead to the destruction of your own race. This adventre seems to have the odds stacked impossibly against your. Or are they?
Whether you own a Model I, III, or CC, this game is for you.
A CC adaptation of Merlin.
All alone over the blue line … shot … Score! Hockey on your CC
Computers don’t bluff. You’re sure to find that out in this version of draw poker.
An invisible maze game to improve your memory with a cherrywood snack at the end.
No laser blasters or hyperspace to protect you in this overpupulated asteroid field. You have to guide your ship through the field to a landing base on the other side.
Space invaders plus Missile Command
An intense “don’t-bother-me-now-can’t-you-see-I’m-busy” solitaire game. Fun for the whole family, one at a time.
A game for those who, tired of the hot-seat, want a little slow-paced action
A game that will have you asking the question: “But does it beat an afternoon nap”?
The Amazing Cordonie returns to graphically amaze and entertain you.
Your chance to pick the best TRS-80 software on the market today
Departments
A call for more support for the Model II and a discussion of women and micros.
The editors look at the issues.
Kudos for MONEY DOS, Loc-Editor and some alleged April fooling.
Talk about IRAs
Legal time accounting systems.
Sorting strings in memory.
Armored Patrol, Forbidden City, Interactive Fiction, and More
On being a software author
Our friends from Sri Lanka get an adventure generator. Be prepared for New Jersey State Assembly Adventure and Haunted Delicatessen
An alleged scam on Compuserve and how to raise the hackles of the golks who make the SATs
Japanese printers, ROM maps, sound routines, writing over TRS-DOS, fast graphic methods, and more.
What do chess, checkers and Reversi have in common? Competitive Tree Searches – Part I.
The conclusion of the homebrew ROM pack for the Color Computer.
Rubik’s Cube and other spatially oriented puzzles
Do microcomputer games have a legitimate place in the learning process?
Automating your clinic.
Program compatibility, Guns of Fort Defiance, telephone monitor, tape reproduction system, data base lock and more.
80 Microcomputing – Volume 32 – September, 1982
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After months of testing ever word processor he could find for the Models I and III, reviewer Robinson has put together an opus on word crunching. But before you get into the nitty gritty of Robinson’s research, read his opening thoughts on the subject.
Robinson begins his words processing discussion with the esteemed Worstar. But before you can use it, you’ve got to take a trip to the hardware store.
next, our peripatheic reviewer explains what thtills await you when you buy a word processor with all the frills.
Word processing is even for those of us still waiting for Michael Anthony – the millionaire’s messnger – to appear on our doorstep. And Robinson shows us the way with a guide to the low-end WP market.
In this final Robinson installment, Dan takes a look at the software replacing what he’s found to be the most reliable spelling-checker to Date: WIFE/CMD.
Learn graphics technique by putting a Playboy bunny on your CRT.
Since good word processors produce comparable results, they must be compared in the highly subjective arena of interaction and user friendliness.
Take a deep breath, then prepare to have it taken away once you learn how to bring out the Rembrandt in you with an Epson MX-80 and a colored ribbon kluge.
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Store and receive items in an unsorted list.
Customize SuperScript for your Epson MX-80.
If you don’t type fast enough, Ishmael’s Nantucket sleuighride ends abuptly in the belly of the Great White Whale.
With a little manipulation, you will find your Color Computer has a word processor buiold into its ROM.
Save more than $75 by installing Extended Color Basic yourself.
How to install it and some tricks for your bag once it’s installed.
Computerware and Dynasoft combine to bring this language to the 16K Color Computer.
Use POKE to write and draw on your CRT.
Rooting around in Asembly can be very difficult if yo udon’t know the territory first.
How to draw with your Color Computer.
Radio Shack vs. Microsoft Basic, which compiler is for you?
Bob Boothe’s Level II graphics for the Color Computer.
Add subroutines for purging, selecting and restoring files.
More DOS for your money.
All is not lost when your 80 exits Scripsit without your permission.
This author shows you don’t have to be a Girl Scout to be a smart cookie.
After reading Part I of this series – For the Novice – the title no longer suits you. So we changed it. In this installment, learn about data degradation.
Author Wright found existing order forms just didn’t fit the bill his needs demanded, so now he has his 80 make the forms.
Sometimes, even triangles outside Bermuda should be avoided.
Maximize memory by reserving zero pages for graphics in Extended Color Basic.
Cure reading-over-the-shoulder syndrome with a cloak, not a dagger.
A Black Box mod for an Epson and Model I.
Get rid of an annoying habit when screen dumping with NEWDOS.
They call it The Shador. It has almost every feature a machine-language programmer would want.
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While the Japanese are attracting teenagers to technical careers through ham and computer clubs, our kids are spending their time on drugs, disco, and driving. It’s putting us at a terrible disadvantage.
All is not well with Tandy’s flagship micro, the Model 16.
A call for Commander Color graphics in Basic and more articles for the novice, some advice for horse bettors and a cry to take the smut out of 80 Micro.
How to connect the plotter in “Digital Doodles” and a correction for “Video Snow Shovel.”
Readers looking for Model II programs, an IBM-Color Computer interface and POKE conversions for Tanktics.
Trade-offs between dedicated and non-dedicated word processors; comments on the Model 16; the Model II and CP/M; and a new oil and gas accounting system.
Offset pointers in a string array by a fixed amount.
Our intrepid KTI observer reviews the toast of Sri Lanka’s new line of generic software.
The trademark nonsense seeems to be everywhere you look in the software business. We’ll soon see more documentation devoted to credits than to the operation of the software.
Super Color Writer, machine-language modules for the novice, Radio Shack’s Color Computer disk system, Penetrator, Color Berserk, EPS-80 word processor, Snapp Spooler, and SFINKS 3.0.
Whither DOS for the Model 16? New computer crime insurance. Motorola 68000 seminar. Wait ahead for TRS-80 wanters of TK!Solver. Computer lingo. Video games mean cash at U. W. Va.
Satisfying the IRS, proportional spacing, digitizers, joining computer clubs, LPRINT problem, and machine-language manuals for the Color Computer.
A new column for kids and the child in us all.
Differential equations.
More on competitive tree searches.
Are there any takers to J.M.’s $50,000 bet his commodities system will not fail?
A look at some patient billing programs.
POKEing machine-language subroutines into memory.
PMC’s Electric Typing Fingers, KWIKIT cassette storage system, green phosphor CRT, ARMDisk/525 Winchester, Surge Protector, Screen Kleen, chemical dealers software, VisiGraph, church donations program, Color Forth, Supertax, Regilean Bloodworm, and the King James Bible on disk.
80 Microcomputing – Volume 33 – October, 1982
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There are color machines with better graphics and resolution than Tandy’s Color Computer, but for the price it’s still a good deal. With this installment, author Barden will explain why.
Since its inception. VisiCalc has been heralded as the financial applications program. Its clones would outnumber a Roman cohort and are usually priced below theoriginal. But even VisiCalc’s imitators can’t beat the price of this clone.
You can buy a Basic to machine-ianguage compiler for $190 or you can key this one into your 80 and write the fastest Basic programs on your block.
Visualize the wonderful effects of compound interest and learn about the importance of sheltering them from Uncle Sam.
How a plastics plant in Georgia monitors production with an 80 and smart box.
You may not want to think about it, but income tax time is closing in on you. This program will let you say hello computer, good-bye H&R Block.
Being a captain of industry and captain of an auto fleet can be a taxing problem. So let your creative juices be channeled into getting down to business while your 80 handles the fleet.
You know your widgets will boost the GNP. The only question you have is how much will the 123rd one cost when it comes off the assembly line?
Bills are the businessman’s bread and butter. Here’s a program to let your 80 not only print your invoices, but keep track of them as well.
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A look at the federal data-processing exposition in Washington. DC.
An answer to the universal question: What’s a baud rate?
What to do when your 80 starts misbehavin’?
Some good-natured fright with the help of your 80 and mirrors.
Hard disks may be the storage medium of the future, but if you’re thinking of entering the major leagues, be prepared to pay the price.
An editor/assembler using a modular approach
Draw graphics displays within your text
A chance to make your 80 sing “Hail to the Sweet!”
Learn how to build a hardware support system for your Model I – a piece at a time.
Better timing and harmonic clarity for your 80-turned-clavier
This third-generation operating system has some new features that put it at the top of its class.
Using what you learned in parts I-IV, you’re ready to prepare flowcharts and docs of your programs.
Twenty graphics programs to end this serties on the wonderful CC and you
Simon says: Party down with your 80
This author has spent a lot of time in quest of the grail of data-base managers. This isn’t it, but it’s very close.
Learn how to modify this popular word-processing program
You will too when you learn how to use the Vernam Algorithm for data encryption
Eight bits are better than seven.
A new version of an old data-base manager.
Tracking your earnings from All Savers Certificates
After this installment, you’ll be ready to run your tape-based data-base manager
Departments
Applause for Sen. Kennedy. A deluge of calls and letters on the piracy isue.The desperate need for TRS-80 service.
In business, money is time and time is money. An 80 can help you save both.
Selling software. Another Neatlist correction. Protected software and 80.track drives. Bit Smitten’s historical rnaccuracies. Disk RAM test. Model 16: savior of Model II. Mod for a Scripsit mod. BlPED error. Wiener’s credibllity questioned. Gunn rapped.
Fixes for Straight Shooter, Sargon Saver, and Space Chase.
Maxprint printer-driver utility, Lablmakr for custom labels. Personal finance package from Tandy. Newtalk memory exam utility. Powerdraw screen graphics utility. Color Scripsit. Colorterm Color Computer terminal program. Newscript 7.0. Visigraph: charts and graphs from VlsiCalc data. Dynamic Report. Generator for columnar reports. Tandy Six-Pen Plotter. MDX-3 Interface PC Board for Model III disk upgrade and RS-232.
A sampling of product reviews appearing in industry media.
Level I keyboard routine discussion.
More inventive products from Sri Lanka’s finest: the black phosphor screen and Random Basic.
Microcomputer users, you don’t know how lucky you are.
It took a lot of headscratching. 40 hours of close work and 12 hours of troubleshooting, but putting an LNW-80 together was worth the effort.
Midwest data base uses Tandy computers. Who’s afraid of the Big Bad 80? Think tank wants to network Americas’s leaders. Teacher drain in Golden Horseshoe. $225,000 video-text study.
Computer astrology: a computerbased home business with a reasonable potential for profit.
Model II TRSDOS 2.0-2.0a quirks. Model 16 experiences. Model II Versafile.
No lowercase without Model I hard mod. Repeat function in Basic. Power supply problems. $669 repair bIII for a Model I. Need for more than 48K in Model III. Some basic poop on disk drives and Assembly language listings.
A faibsafe stock market program,
Games using Point(X,Y).
Math and science software and books for the TRS-80.
Practice modifying machine-language-subroutine POKES by modifying some past Load 80 programs.
Portable Model III. Model III package with word processor, mailing list manager, payroll record system and more. Coin Tracker. Mass mail system. School administration system. Checkbook manager for Color Computer. Ribbon cartridge for MX-80. Hurricane tracking program. Copy utility for onedrive users. Church management system. Tax Master federal income tax manager. Model III terminal program. Stock market simulation game. Dataman data base manager for users with no programming experience. Griffin I hard disk drive.
80 Microcomputing – Volume 34 – November, 1982
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Even micros can have a bedside manner. Read how the medical profession uses micros to diagnose, educate, and gather information.
Does your job get you hot under the collar? This program determines whether the heat from your workplace is harmful to your health.
Microcomputers are not used extentively yet in scientific exploration, but some pioneering scientitst are leafing a micro revolution.
Scientific research benefits from using microcomputer sfor data collection and analysis.
Trying to convince the boss you need a computer in the lab? This article will help you.
Gravity got you down? This program shows you its effects on orbits of heavenly bodies.
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In this segment, author Barden explains the Line, Circle, Draw, Poiunt, Get and Put commands, as well as how to change your video display graphics.
Computerize your family medical histories and make life a little easier by keeping health records.
Save memory space with Basic’s Reaad … Data function. It’s not as difficult as you think.
Regression analysis lets you get the most from a set of data. Author Hinrichs will take you step by step through this useful technique.
In this episode, add 32K of RAM to your Model I.
Charles Babbage invented the speedometer, railway cowcatcher, and occulting lighthouse – as well as the first digital computer.
This Editor/Assembler for cassette-based Color Computer owners almost has it all
When the Air Force took Jimmy’s hobby – ham radio – away, he found a new way to while away the hours … converting Model I programs to Color Computer ones.
Poke out your Model II’s blinker.
LPRINTing CHR$s 0 and 10.
A way to speed up your Color Computer programs.
Let your micro strip the veils from relativity theory and ignite your own intuitive files.
Design model airplane wings or modify this program to plot points for other applications.
Unlock the door to fast searches using key data.
Who as the better poker face, you or your 80?
Making heads of a different column fit together.
All about sensors, decision bases, and actuators.
You need some additional knowledge if you want to display numbers and graphics on your Color Computer.
Tired of fumbling through unlabaled cassette boxes or trying to read chicken tracks passing for handwriting? Your 80 can give you a helping hand.
When you buy an MX-80 cable when you can make your own?
Combine programs and save memory with this know-how.
Mike wanted his kids to dissect math problems but found they’d rather dissect his Basic programs instead.
You need more than CONVERT for this one.
Now you don’t have to wait until the wee hours to see late-night fare on your tv.
It may be Greek to you but not to your 80.
It helps mentally retarded persons play music on the Color Comptuer.
For fast mazes you need machine language.
Understanding the magic of binary and hardwre.
Model I graphics screen dump.
The ultimate do-it-yourself project — designing your own comptuer.
How to get enhanced printouts from a limited system.
Disabled by not forgotten.
What happens when IBM Fortran meets Microsoft Basic?
… for a word that will make your Model I More versatile.
Genealogies for home comptuers.
By making your Basic programs look like machine language, you can deter many copy cats.
Debug your Basic programs with a trace table.
Debugging long listings made easy.
The fastest sort in the West … and elsewhere.
This simple patch protects high memory.
Use a second cassette recorder to add sound to your programs.
Write machine language patches, load your main program, and save as one file.
Hit a bullseye with this polynomial factoring program.
Use your 80 to keep track of your books.
Getting to the roots of some problems
Explaining a sometimes persistent SYSTEM-load error.
Computer warfare beyond three dimensions
Mail-merge on a shoestrong.
Departments
Education in the future — now there’s a subject that should be good for a whole book.
Micros can help people tune in to technology and explore it.
The pain of protected disks. profile update. Error in Individual Retirement Account program. A program to calculate inflation forever. More on disk directory for the Model III. Concerns for a first-generation hacker. Error in “For the Novice.” Model I expansion without Radio Shack support. Color Computer voice synthesizer. More.
Bug in baud rate. Tic-tac error. Missing parts for bare bones communcator.
Request for Model III card reader. The rest of “Tee for Six” Form feed for the MX-80.
Rodney Gambucus and his friend Wintrop set up shop in 80 Micro to talk with you about games.
One of the most powerful features of Level II BAasic is the Print Using statement
Kitchen Table Inc. breaks new ground by introducing user-hostile software
Extended muMATH, Color Forth. Sole, double desnity for the Model I, Spectaculator, Color Computer spreadsheet, Sprinter II, Z80 in the fast lane. Micro Mainframe disk contoroller for Model III. Smith-Corona TP-1. Colorterm, terminal program for CC. Master Reversi. Spell ‘N Fix. CC spelling checker.
Color Logo. Electric Webster. The UPI-3 Serial Interface. Space War. Basic Handbook, 2nd edition. Versafile.
Tandy distributes Color Computer outside Radio Shack stores. End of Tandy customer service hotline riles some users. Associated Press-CompuServe end electronic newspaper experiment. Public education rapped at conference. network Nation authors meet in Electronic Agora.
Statistics 101
Disk back-up problems. Mailing list of Tandy owners. Epson emphasised mode. Color merge. RFI problems. Corona discharge. DEC to TRS-80, Scrinput. Power supply hum. Irwin hard disk drives.
Gather round boys and girls as the old Saturday seial is revived and we take a trip through the dangerous world of Subterra.
Farewell to a friend. TRS-80s run a liquor store and sell used cars. Second-ahdn software.
More on Keyne’s never-fail commodity system.
RX for word processing.
Color Load 80 announced. Load 80 takes it on the chin. Wonder why some August games didn’t work?
Lead CRT screen. Meet the Computer, a book for children. MTI MOD III PLUS 8 series. Visicalc surrogates. Model III hard disk. DOSPLUS for the Model II. Foorball Compu-Stat. Hayse Stack Smartmodem 1200. CP/M File Indexer.
80 Microcomputing – Volume 35 – December, 1982
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Features
The physically handicapped can produce printed text with this sound-controlled program.
With this new package, Color Computer owners can explore programming in a new language – Forth.
Your TRS-80 can’t bait a hook, but it can help you trap a lobster using maps and graphs.
Pascal-80 provides a serious version of the Pascal language to TRS-80 users. You might find its structured programming rewarding.
Can’t decide which language to use? Here’s a simple temperature conversion program in six: Basic, Fortran, Cobol, Pascal, APL, and Forth.
Articles:
Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine was the modern computer’s ancestor, but it was never built.
A graphics prgram to show off the power of your Color Computer.
This month learn how to gain access to string data for use in programs requiring random selection fo words.
Double-density disk storage – a close look at all you will ever need to upgrade your Model I.
Make your MX-80 look like a magician.
Eliminate drawbacks in this printer-driver by dropping the O.
How to write a spooler for Radio Shack’s wod processing program
Make your program submission to 80 Micro compatible with other systems with this short routine. Your readers will appreciate it.
Now that you’ve bought a computer, build a place to put it.
Add a disk-drive controller to your system.
God bless the 80 that’s got its own search function.
A Ham puts his Color Computer to dit-dah use.
Free your micro with this spooler.
Worry no more about disk file placement.
Transplant your rainy day high school gym class into space and play dodge ball with asteroids.
If you’re a gambling fool, be less foolish by claculating the odds before you roll those bones.
This utility helps you find strings in your Basic programs.
Eliminate bad saves and wasted time
After the bubble bursts, learn about position and chain sorts.
Modify Uni-Key for your Model III
A general guide to the regions of ROM
The 12 Days of Christmas, Dreidel, a Hanukkah game. Peglefs.
Lazy Writer. Copyrigh single density to double density. Printer III problems. Disk drive buyer information. Disk drive problems. EDTASM problems. Color Comptuer information. Buyiung a Model III keyboard. Model I monitor ripple. Playing Naval Wars on the PMC. Best chess game available for the 80. Power surge protection.
How to play on the options market.
A conversation with Vernon Hester, including a Hester machine-langaueg routine to make programs compatible with all DOSes.
Analysis of variance
How to use Color Load 80. A new DOS for the Models I and III. Anniversary Load 80.
Vendor-One program author’s software. Mitsubishi 5.25-inch floppy drive. Color Comptuer macro assembler/editor. Farm Weather Center. VisiCalc consolidation system. Name that Song. Australian Winchester drives. Graphic character generator for Model I and III. Two -mode joystick. Camp management program. Rading Skills Lab. Personal Computer Owner’s Directory. CompuGifts for Christmas.
How to interface an actuator to your comptuer.
When Model I software isn’t Basic, you need to know some tricks before you convert the programs.
A smart businessman knows analyzing waiting lines is not as arcane as it sounds.
Have you ever wondered how a mouse feels in a maze? Here’s your chance to find out.
Out with the bad ribbon, in with the cheap one.
An explanation of their functions.
Model I users had it, now Color Comptuer owners can have it too. So examine those files.
With USR routines and this Basic utility, you can create business forms on your Model II.
Make your screen routines efficient.
How they work for Fortran and Basic.
Use this program to list programs on the screen one line at a time.
What’s the difference between monadic and dyadic functions? Stay tuned for a description of system commands, variable names, and more.
Speed up your Basic displays with a little help from some dummies.
Simple commands for art or game graphics on the Color Computer.
Departments
With its busines shealth depending increasingly on its computer sales, some rought water could be awaiting with Tandy flagship.
A look at the year ahead.
The amazing magazine mystery. Model I interface. Wayne’s view of America rapped. Tips for Extended Basic. Rammer fix. More advantages of storing Assembly subroutines in Basic remark statements. PMC EPS-80 defended.
September MONEY DOS fix. Errors in Screenplay program. Model I mod for “Save Our Ship.” A word on golf handicaps.
Goodwill Industries wants comptuers. Business students need programs. Green screen kluge. Quick Pritner I for sale. More buffer for his music. Needs address of Indianapolis firm. VisiCalc templates. For Stringy Floppy owners only. Moderm for 1200 downlaods. TRS-232 newsletter. Color monitor question. Super Scripsit.
Sea Dragon. TRS-80 Assembly Language. Wolfbug. Eleemntary Basic and Pascal with Sherlock Holmes. Lips/UOLISP. Quest. LSI Soft-view CRT. FED File Editor. Bounceoids. The Disk Doctor. LCA-47. Lowercase Adapter for CoCo. Hypergate Centurian. Data-O-Base Calendar Drive Control Unit.
Understanding Comptuer Science by ROger Walker. Postman. Basics for Business by Douglas Hergert. Master Control. Big Things from Little Comuter: A Layperson’s Guide to Personal Comptuer by Dale Peterson. Pro-80 Extended Basic. Micropilot. The Tiny Compiler. Stellar Escort. RAM Slam.
Examining the bits in binary numbers.
A call to gamer’s everywhere to beat the high scores of Winthrop and Mad Max.
Computer in the schools: boon or bane? Video games can weaken a heart. Landmark lawsuit settled. Poet Laureate of the Network Nation.