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The March 2024 edition of TRS8BIT is now available from the downloads page.


Our 73rd. issue has the first news of the 2024 competition from George Phillips. There are articles from Ian Mavric on replacing Co-Co 2 keyboard membranes, a very detailed account of the FB series of disk drives and looks forward to the 2024 T.A. Jim Adams hunts down the start of BASIC making, what is a ‘must go to’ guide. E.T. Fonehume creates a BASIC one-liner to print a 5x5 magic square using consecutive numbers. Juergen Buessert explains how to create a ‘WAV’ file from a DMK image. Vince Otten continues his series ‘Software Tools in BASIC’ with episode 3, ‘Open For Business’ and an article using ROM calls from TRSDOS. Tony G sends details of various pieces of hardware he created, ‘back in the day’. And, of course, there’s the regular features of ‘The Way We Were’, U.K. Ebay bargains, various finds from ‘Surfin the Net’ and finally, there’s a little one-liner game for all you M2 fans. (Is this a first?)


Volumes one to nine of the U.K.’s Tandy newsletters, NATUG News are now available from the Downloads page, here and, in enhanced quality, from Ira’s site. They cover the period from December 1978 to December 1987 inclusive.


The latest upgrade to George and Peter Phillips’s TRS-80 emulator. trs80gp (version 2.5.3) will be available shortly. Full details of all the options are available from their website. This really is THE best TRS-80 emulator on the planet. It even has, just for the U.K., Aculab Floppy Tape emulation. Just as ‘in the day’ but, of course, without any media problems! You can also use the upgraded version of Level 2 BASIC, “TWOHAF” (Level 2.5), using the AFT as well as ordinary cassette BASIC.


If you haven’t tried it yet, you really are missing out on something VERY SPECIAL!



As always, indexes for NATGUG News, TRSTIMES, 80-US and 80-Microcomputing, together with back issues of TRS8BIT, the NEWDOS86/90 manual, Mav's Building the Super Micro, the Aculab Floppy Tape User Guide, various issues of the U.K.’S newsletter, including NATUG News, and the AJ Harding/Molimerx catalogue, are all available from the downloads page.


Index down-loads are '.zip' files. The index(es) contain 3 copies. They are now in .accdb, .xlsx and .csv format. All other publications, including TRS8BIT, are in .pdf format (unless stated).

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