Moy Editorial
Let me Say a big “HOWDY!” to all of you! I sure hope
vour April and May hasn’t been as busy as amine! I wish I
could have a few sore hours tacked on to each day so I could
‘ust keep up! The RAMTOP is late this month due to the
voaputer Fest, relatives coming for several days, and ay
“razy work schecule’ This will not be a trend if I can help
.t! Sending your articles on Tasword has been a great help
to @e as well as gaking the newsletter look better and pack
wore information. KEEP ON SENDING THOSE GREAT ARTICLE’ As
vou well know, YOUR articles are what keep this publication
stive and well! Enough said, on to the aatters at hand.
The Cincinnati Computer Fest was absolutely GREAT!!! I¢
“hey have another one (1’a pretty sure they will) you should
vO at all cost! My only real regret was that I could only go
or one cay! (Sat.) I was also rather disapointed that
cobody frog the John Qliger Co. was able to make it. I know
‘hat 1 would have purchased his disc system right then! (J
ordered it anyway) I never saw so auch NEAT computer stuf in
ane place betore! It was just like computer heaven aust be!
it’s a good thiag that I didn’t take a lot of aoney or I
would be broke now. As it was I bought a DSDD disc drive and
a bunch of software.
Let se tell you, a LOT of soney changed hands! Of course
we all know that a dollar for Sinclair products goes such
further that for other computer systems! I would have to say
that one of the biggest hits there was the QL. Many were
sclc anc gany orcers were taken. I sagan when you think of
it, it’s hard to believe that you can get computer that has
high res craphics, 32 bit, cicro drives(TWO) built in, and
auch gore, AND inclu¢ing - high res color aonitor, AND a
high quality printer with graphics and letter quality sode
for well under $1000 bucks! To top it off, they throw in a
Great software package that is worth practicly the cost {or
sore) of the ~cametor for fres' f think it will be a real
shame if the QL is dropped and not picked up by. another
company since Amstrad doesn’t plan to continue with it.
Disc drives were also a big hit especially since there
are so gany to pick from now! There were also reps for aicro
drives and practicly every supplier of Sinclair and Timex
equipment anc software! Many user groups were there also. I
was able to aatch up aany faces to those we have heard of
and talked to but have never seen. I saw one of our writers,
‘Eric Yruegas) and he is one smart guy! I also talked to Joe
Williamson (SUM), Tow Woods, Jack Roberts (TS Connection),
Chet Lambert (CTM) and sany others.
We did very well at our table also. Although I don’t
have the figures, we did have a great crowd flocking at our
table! A BIG thanks to all of our group that eanned our
table anc took part in preparing saterials! Also, I want to
take @ quick gogent to thank Toby Radlott for giving ee a
ride! 1 wouldn’t have been able tc eake it other wise. Toby,
one of our best 1000/1500 enthusiasts, bought a 2068 with
the Spectrum ROM and soge software and he likes it a lot!
Gur group is on the up swing! We have several new
geguers and several new newsletter exchanges. Our library is
aoving ahead and hopefuly we will have several library tapes
soon so those of you that are anxiously awaiting for a
library tape, please be patient a bit longer.
It was brought up at the west side meeting that several
suppliers of software and hardware for the Sinclair line of
computers have decided to sell products exclusively for the
GL! I would hope that they would please realize that we who
Own other Sinclair computers also would like to order
products and continue to have their support for ALL the
Sinclair line of computers! With the possible discontinu-
ation of the QL gwaybe they will consider us iaportant once
Bore, :
I would also like to let all the groups that exchange
with us as well as all the other Tigex/Sinclair groups, know
that we feel that it would be a very good idea if we fora a
comaon link and pool our resources to keep us strong and
well informed. Why not drop ae a note or give ae a call sose
evening? (216-661-4105) Janes &. BuPuy, 65/4 Bradley hve.
(BOHR), Parsa, Ohio, 44129.
You will find in this issue a few pictures fros the
Fest. They are courtesy of TOM SIMON,
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news/rumars
hardware software literature
May 1°86 by Andy Kosiorek
Cincinnatti T/S Computer Fest:
"SUPERCALAFRAGALISTIC"
Thats my impression of the Fest. Every
one who attended had a great time. Qn Sat.
the crowd was elbow to elbow in the
exhibition room. A lot of software and
literature was sold plus some big ticket
items such as Q@L’s and Disk Drives. I
predict that there will be another
Fest in 12 to 18 months.
Qur thanks to all of our Club members
who put in a lot of work preparing for the
event and man- ing our table. —
Also a “job well done" to the Cinci
Fest Committee. They put in a lot of hours
to make the event a big success.
All of our Club members who
s-auid have a lot of stories to
the next severa: meetings. |
attended
tell at
TS 2068 Technical Manual Reprint
The reprint of the 2068 tech manual is
now available @ $25.00 from Time Designs
Magazines.
It has been re-edited, known errors
have been corrected, and contains some
additional charts, and technical data. The
printing and binding are very well done. A
quality job. If your a techy type you will
want one for your reference library.
CF/M and Disk Drives.
CP/M operating systems are now
available for owners or new buyers of
Pebra or Aerco Disk Systems. I saw both
demonstrated in Cinci. It opens up a whole
new world of software for 2068 users.
FORTH:
Another language available for our
computers is "Forth." It is available for
the 2068, Specrum and ZX-81.
JOO OOOO IIE
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. news /rumors —
hardware software steraturd )
May 1986 by Andy Kosiorek
About April 7th, at a packed press
conference in London, Sir Clive and
Amstrad chairman Alan Sugar announced
that Amstrad had bought the rights to
sell and manufacture all existing future
Sinclair computers.
Amstrad paid #7.9 million for the
intellectual property rights to the
Spectrum, ZX8i1, and Gt. In addition
Amstrad will control the marketing of
existing stocks and order commitments.
The Sinclair brand name is part ot
the deal, meaning that Sinclair
computers will still be sold thoroughout
the world.
The Spectrum machines, will cover the
low priced home market while the Amstrad
machines cator to the higher,
end of the market.
The QL and all versions of the
microdrive will be discontinued. A new
version of the Spectrum will be offerred
with a built in cassette deck.
Also in the works is a Amstrad 3"
disk drive accessory for the Spectrum.
The ZX-81 was discintinued by
Sinclair some time ago.
Amstrad also has the rights to market
future Sinclair Computers, such as the
Fandor a, S oortable computer,
incorperat- ing 4 development of
Sinclair’s flat screen display.
Peaction in the UK, from retailers
and software houses appear favorable at
this time. Amstrad has a good reputation
for quality products and on time
marketing. ,
Reaction in the USA is mixed. It
looks like a good deal for 2048 and
Spectrum owners. QL enthusiests however
have reason for concern. There is talk
that Amstrad would be willing to sell
the manufacturing and marketing rights
for the QL to the right buyer, but tf
has yet to become fact. However this dia
not seem to hurt OL sales at the Cinci
Computer Fest.
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SECOND OF A SERIES
Last gonth we learned about headers and wrote a header
reader program. This month, we will use the header reader
to help load and stop those unstoppable and unmergeable
progrars. 7
WHY PROGRAMS CAN'T BE STOPPED
BASIC programs that can’t be stopped contain pokes that
cause a crash if BREAK is pressed. Because the programs
autostart and the pokes are contained in the first part of
the prograp, it is extremely difficult, if not impossible
to stop the program. The two most common pokes are POKE
23659,@ and POKE 23613,@. Look in the systems variables
section of the Sinclair manual for more details on these
pokes. Other programs, in addition to being unstoppable,
are unmergeable. Since the program can’t be merged to
remove the crash pokes, the program has to loaded
someyhere else in memory so that the program can be
exagined, eodified, and rewritten. This is most easily
cone with a “false header’.
USTo A FALSE HEADER
Use s header reader oc examine the header of the progran
you want to stop. Stop the tape IMMEDIATELY after the
header has loaded in! Remove the tape from your recorder.
Make a false header to load the program as code. If for
example, the header reader says that the BASIC program is
94 bytes long, enter: SAVE "*CODE 30000,94 On a separate
tape, save the code. Rewind the tape with the false header
and enter: LOAD ""CODE Stop the tape IMMEDIATELY after the
header has loaded. Put the original tape back in the
recorder and continue loading it. The BASIC program has
now been loaded into 94 bytes starting at 30000. The
program can now be examined by peeking. This technique 1s
basic to cracking prograss.
EXAMINING THE PROGRAM
With the program loaded as code in memory, we now need a
method of examining the program. The program in Listing #1
does this by providing a pseudoL[STing. Enter the program
and run it. Presusing that you have a program loaded as
code at 3066@ in memary, enter 3800@ to the prompt. The
prograk will start to interpret the code characters as if
they were a BASIC program. One advantage of the program is
that if also shows control characters that have been
esbedded in the BASIC program that you are trying to
crack.
These control characters are printed in inverse so that
you will easily recognize them. The backspace character 15 —
printed as an inverse “b", and Enter or carriage return 1s
printed as an inverse "c". Each line should end with a
black "c". Many commercial prograp have white ink, white
paper characters embedded in the listing to make the
listing difficult to read. These control characters can
often be thwarted by LLISTing the program. Another feature
that the pseudoL[STing program has is that it shows the
TRUE integer value of a number following the text of the
nusber, Sinclair computers store the true value of any
number in a program line as a five byte representation of
number. This five byte number is the one that is actually
used at run time by the corputer. Some programmers POKE in
different nuabers than the apparent numbers to fool
hackers. If both the numbers in white and in inverse
agree, then the nuaber shown in real, otherwise, use the
number in inverse characters. It is the correct one. The
one exception to this rule is if the number is a floating
point number. (See page 258 of the T/S 2668 User Manual
for a good discussion of how numbers are stored.
Programs that are unmergeable have been doctored by the
programmer to confuse the corputer when you try to merge
it. Each BASIC line starts with two bytes that contain the
BASIC line number. The line nusber is followed by two
bytes which tell the number of characters in the line. The
vay that the computer finds its way from line to line 1s
by adding the the number of characters in the ilne to 1%.
present position to find the next line. This process works
fine so long as the nuaber of characters in the line is
accurate. What the programaer does to make the progras
unmergeable is to poke the last line's number of bytes
with the wrong number. When the computer trys to merge the
program, it gets to the last line and gets lost trying to
digest the incorrect information about the line. For this
reason, the pseudoLISTing program print “Line doesn’t end
with enter." if the program gets lost.
EXAMPLES
Listing #2 is the pseudoliSTing from the progras
Spellbound. The program is normal until the very last
statement. The statement looks like it contains the number
26624, but the number that the program will use is 26627. .
If you should load the program and RANDOMIZE VSR 26624 you
will see an aniwated fireworks display, with the message,
"Hello Hacker. Fancy seating you here.” This is one of the
joys and surprises of trying to crack programs.
Listing #3 is the pseudoL]STing frog the Spectrum version
of the program Strip Poker. In it, the prograa voices his
opinion of hackers. Notice that the second line has a
number of 65282. This nuaber is obviously illegal sinc
Sinclairs can't have line numbers greater than 9999. Th —
two POKES in line ] are there only to POKE a different
line nugber (in this case @) into that line so that it
becomes executable. Notice that the first line 3 has
several INK 7 control codes in it. This makes the listing
after that point invisible when listed on the screen. (It
could be LLISTed.) The second line 3 is really the loader
program. Also note that there is a statement POKE 23659, 0
in line 3. This is a crash poke and isn’t needed. The only
line needed to load the program would be:
| CLEAR 42774: LOAD *" CODE: RANDOMIZE VSR 2336!
The rest of the program is just protection. The characters
in what appears to be line 25605 are just characters that
were in the variables area of the program, and are
unisportant.
In pseudoLISTing #4, there is an exaaple of an unmergeable
progras. Note that the listing ends with the message that
the line doesn’t end with ENTER. The programs that you try
to crack may use these techniques, or a variety of
combinations.
the various protections. For short loader programs such as
the examples, it is ususally easier to reenter the
program. If you encounter a very long program, you may
find if easier to POKE in corrections and resave the code,
and then use the reverse "false header” procedure to put a
“BASIC header on the progran. 3x JACK 33%
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THIS MONTH I’VE A COUPLE OF HARDWARE TIPS THAT WERE PROVIDED BY
JIM LEWIS THAT WILL BE OF INTEREST TO 2068 OWNERS. IF YOU HAVE A
-~ 2068 WITH A WIRED IN SPECTRUM ROM AND HAVE HAD SOME PROBLEKS
WITH THE COMPUTER INITIALIZING ON THE SPECTRUM ROM AND HAD TO
TURN THE MACHINE ON & OFF SEVERAL TIMES, DON’T WORRY ANY MORE
BECAUSE HERE IS THE FIX. YOU MUST REPLACE THE 1 WFD. CAPACITOR
MARKED C-21 LOCATED IN THE LOWER CENTRAL AREA OF THE BOARD WITH
A i0 WFD. CAPICITOR AND THE 2068 WILL INITIALIZE POSITIVELY IN
BOTH MODES. THE 12 VOLT REGULATOR, LOCATED IN THE UPPER LEFT
SIDE OF THE BOARD RUNS ON THE WARM SIDE. FOR COOLER RUNNING ADD
ORE OF THOSE CLIP ON HEAT SINKS TO U-8. JIM ALSO FOUND AN ERROR
IN THE SCHEMATIC FOR THE 2068. THE ROMCS SIGNAL FROM THE SCLD
GOES TO THE Wi JUMPER (NOT THE W2 INDICATED ON THE SCHEMATIC)
AND THE MREG SIGNAL GOES TO THE W2 JUMPER. APPARENTLY THE
SIGNALS ARE REVERSED ON THE DIAGRAM.
RICHARD SCHNEIDER OF AUDIO PROFESSIONALS IN AKRON PROVIDED A TIP
GN HOW TO MODIFIY A POWER STRIP WITH METAL OXIDE VARISTORS AS
PROTECTION AGAINST POWER SURGES. PURCHASE 3 MOVS (RADIO SHACK
PART 276-5688) PUT THEM BETWEEN THE HOT, NEUTRAL AND GROUND OF
THE POWER STRIP AS SHOWN IN THE DIAGRAM FROM THE DECEMBER 1983
ISSUE OF BYTE MAGAZIWE. IF YOU WANT TO, YOU CAN ASORB ADDITIONAL
INTERFERENCE BY ADDING A .O1 MFD., {1000V. Z5U CAPAICITOR IN
PARALELL WITH EACH MOV. WHILE THIS WILL PROTECT AGAINST VOLTAGE
SURGES IT WILL NOT PROTECT AGAINST LIGHTNING. TO PROTECT AGAINST
LIGHTNING BOTH THE HOT AND NEUTRAL LINES MUST BE DISCONNECTED
BECAUSE OF CAPACITIVE COUPLING OF THE LINES. RICHARD SUGGESTED A
RELAY AS A POSSIBLE SOLUTION. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION READ AN
ARTICLE BY HERB FRIEDMAN IN THE COMPUTER DIGEST SECTION OF THE
JUNE 1986 ISSUE OF RADIO ELECTRONICS.
HERE IS SOME 600D NEWS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN CONCERNED ABOUT
THE LACK OF REPLACEMENT SCLD’S FOR THE 2068. THE CAPITOL AREA
TIMEX/SINCLAIR USERS GROUP HAS PURCHASED 100 OF THE SCLDS. THEY
ARE SELLING THEM FOR $18. EACH OR $15. IN QUANTITIES OVER 5.
WRITE TQ MARK FISHER, CAPITOL AREA TIMEX/SINCLAIR USERS SROUP,
P.0. BO 725, BLADENSBURG, MD. 20710. ELECTRONIC SUPLUS ON
PROSPECT NEAR THE CLEVELAND GREY’S ARMORY HAS SOCKETS FOR THIS
CHIP SHOULD YOU HAVE TO REPLACE IT.
IF YOU ARE IN DETROIT ON THE SECOND SUNDAY OF THE MONTH YOU MAY
KANT TQ CHECK OUT THE TIMEX GROUP THERE. THEY MEET AT 2:00 PM AT
THE LAWRENCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT 10 MILE AND EVERGREEN
ROAD IN THE SCIENCE BUILDING, ROOM 114. FOR FURTHER DETAILS
CONTACT STEVE SPALDING 313-544-1190,
FORTH IS LANGUAGE WHICH IS IDEAL FOR MANY PURPOSES AND PRATICAL
INTERFACING WITH THE REAL WORLD. IT IS HOWEVER A DIFFICULT
LANGUAGE AND INFORMATICN ON FORTH IS NOT ALWAYS AVAILABLE AT THE
LOCAL BOOKSTORE. MOUNTAIN VIEW PRESS SPECIALIZES IN FORTH BOOKS
AND PROGKAMS. THEY EVEN HAVE PROGRAMS FOR THE JUPITER ACE AND
T/S 1000. WRITE TO THEM MOUNTAIN VIEW PRESS, P.0. BOX 4654,
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA. 94640 OR TELEPHONE 415-941-4103. ONE OF UR
MEMBERS, DON McCABE, HAS WRITTEN AN IMPLEMENTATION OF FORTH FOR
THE 2068, WHICH HE HAS AVAILABLE FOR SALE. CONTACT DON AT ONE OF
THE WEST SIDE MEETINGS.
ONE OF HY FAVORITE PROGRAMS, MACHINE CODE TUTOR HAS BEEN
CONVERTED TO RUN ON THE 2068. THE COST IS AROUND $18.00 AND.
SHOULD BE AVAILABLE FROM MOST US VENDORS.
FROM £.A. BROWN COMES ONE OF THE BETTER DEALS ON THE COMPUSERVE
STARTER KIT. IT COMES WITH 5 HOURS OF LOG ON TIME FOR $18.99.
EACH HOUR OF TIME NORMALLY WOULD COST BE $46.00 SQ IT I5 &A
SIGNIFICANT SAVING. ALSO FROM BROWN AND SEVERAL OTHER VENDORS IS
THE HACKER’S HANDBOOK BY HUGO CORNWALL. I HAVE STARTED READ THIS
BOOK AND WOULD RECOMEND IT TO ANYONE WHO IS INTERESTED IN
TELECOMMUNICATING. THIS IS A REVISED EDITION AND SOME MATERIAL
HAS BEEN REMOVED FOR LEGAL REASONS. EVEN SO IT HAS QUITE A LOT
OF INFORMATION THAT WILL HELP QUT A USER WITH YARIOUS SYSTEMS.
THE COST 15 $12.95. CALL BROWN AT 612-762-8847.
A CATALOG IS AVAILABLE FOR $2.00 FROM DICK SMITH ELECTRONICS, PO
BOX 8021, REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA 94063. THIS CATALOG HAS AN
ODD MIXTURE OF HUMCR AND INFORMATION ALONG WITH MERCHANDISE. THE
BACK OF THE CATALOG HAS ASCII CODES, RESISTOR AND CAPACITOR
COLOR CODES AND FORMULAS FOR SATELLITE TRACKING. | PURCHASED A
PROJECT BOX FOR AN INTERFACE FOR ABOUT $3.00. IF YOU ARE ACT
GETTING THIS NOW AND ARE INTERESTED IN HARDWARE DQ GET IT.
AN APOLOGY IS IN ORDER FOR THE BIBLIOGRAPHY THAT WAS PUBLISHED A
COUPLE OF ISSUES AGO. I PROVIDED JIM DUPUY WITH A WORK ‘COPY
WHICH WAS NOT COMPLETE. THE FULL FILE IS ABOUT TWICE AS LONG.
I'LL BRING THE FILE TO THE NEXT FEW MEETINGS FOR ANYONE WHO
WISHES A TASWORD FILE COPY. FOR OUT OF TOWN MEMBEFS SEND A TAPE
AND I WILL COPY THE FILE ONE TQ IT.
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have heard of a lot. He wrote
the
Program: PRO FILE. we may be
Switching to PRO FILE to keep our
9roup records. This is TOM WOODS.
He’ io, sports fins!
full of good stuff.
"Hoon Walking Michael."
Greeting Card Designer loads up after a while, as it
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ay | its Eric ‘YFeaas:
Here I am again, mth another article chock
looking for a program for a friend in Hawaii {you out
Pac ..¢, Pete?}, and i came across one of the early prograas I
wrote when I discovered graphics. Tattectionately cali it
J think you wili like it...
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284 ,98,24,28,28,18,54, 36, 108,18,24,28,28,18,! »26,14,6,8, 128,
252,244, 254,252,128, 26
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58 PRINT AT 12, N;CHRE LOl:PAUSE 5
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Siaplicity, because |
Weil, there it is. Kind of long (it can be simp
the time | wrote it, I didn't think of
knew that I had 32k to deal with...
Anyway, enough
program called
a progras that
S'tuation,
frivolity. Gn with the real stuff. I just got a
Sreeting Card Designer, ty Zebra Systems. [ft 1
allows you to make a “card” suited for nearly any
un
loads 919k
of BASIC and 2@k of Machine Cede. Whew! After loading, 2
SCreEn comes up and asks you to make a selection from the
following: Edit Card, Print Card, Erase Card,
and Select Printer. The anual
"Select Printer” first. i concur {] once had a perfect card
re-diy to print and when I went to print it, J couldnt
stand why ay printer just sat there and said “what?* I
forgot to select a printer'!).
Save/Load Card,
suggests that you do the
6CD currently supports the Epson, Gemini,
Spirit-8@, Seikosha, anc Prowriter printers.
others Will work,
Mesotech/Panasonic,
I am sure that
but you might have to experiment with
interface.
settinys-Atte ject a prin’ 7, It_asks yout. .ef
RERCO, <an-B/C, and the ! interraces
supported. You art . -n Pevurned to the HAIN RENU.
Edit Card allows you t- enter at. ant arranje graphic
either the inside or the cover of the card. Yo. also Can 2
a boroer. There is no provision to have a blank borcer. here
are 22 graphic “igures on the other side of the saster tape. 1
you do not find s suitable graphic frca the appendix in the back
of the manual, you can create your own with the GRAPHIC DESIGNER
UTILITY. This is a completely different progras. 1 have used
it to make up for the .aci of certain grapnics {coeputer, etc.).
[t works weli, but it is rather sisa,
A'l in all, th ‘S2848 Greeting Card Designer is a good valu
[ have had requests to print “e invit t ons and "Happy birth
cards. I would recompend it to anyine «ith an 8@ col
printer. Qne point: [ have had prvblems trying t> get
working with a Prowrite, (C.Jtoh 8518). If you have one, rite
me before purchasing, as I have been working out a solution for
this problem. I have written Zebra, and expect to get some
resuits soon.
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