Community Projects
A curated tracker of the hardware builds, software tools, reference knowledge, and preservation efforts the Timex/Sinclair community has produced — a starting point for newcomers and a lasting reference for everyone. Each entry links to the discussions behind it (and, soon, the meetings where much of the work is reported).
Status key: 🟢 Active · 🌲 Evergreen · 🧪 Experimental · 💤 Dormant
🚀 Active right now: Library Tape Archiving Process · TS1510 Cartridge Interface Clone · TS-Pico · ZX-Wespi / Wespi-Nano · DEF FN & BASIC Technique Deep-Dives · "1068" — Enhanced TS1000 · Retro pixel converter · ZXzine · Openspand · TS-Tracker
🔧 Projects
- "1068" — Enhanced TS1000 🧪 Experimental — Carl Miles
An enhanced / modernized take on the TS1000 (informally nicknamed the "1068"), developed largely through the Zoom user-group meetings rather than on the list. · 2025 - Openspand 🟢 Active
Replacement for the ZXPand+ - Retro pixel converter 🟢 Active — David Anderson, Josef Jelinek
A web app to convert images to ZX Spectrum, TS 2068, TS 1000 and other formats. - TS-Pico 🟢 Active
A Raspberry Pi Pico–based mass-storage / interface cartridge for the TS2068 — load and save programs from an SD card, no tapes required. The most-discussed modern peripheral on the list. · 2022-11 → 2025-12 - TS-Tracker 🟢 Active — David Anderson
Programs to write and play tracker music on the TS 2068 - TS1510 Cartridge Interface Clone 🟢 Active — Carl Miles
A modern, redesigned reproduction of the Timex/Sinclair 1510 Command Cartridge interface (and compatible cartridge PCBs) for the TS1000/TS1500/ZX81 line, produced in small community batches. · 2024-02 → 2026-03 - ZX-Wespi / Wespi-Nano 🟢 Active
A board that replaces the RF modulator on ZX81/TS1000-class machines to provide a clean modern video output; discussed and adopted by list members (Wespi-Nano is the smaller revision). · 2023-02 → 2025-11 - ZXzine 🟢 Active — Tim Swenson
Tim's electronics zine about the Timex/Sinclair and Sinclair computers. - FPGA "Advanced 2068" 🧪 Experimental — Jeff Burrell
A long-running effort to reimplement / advance the TS2068 in an FPGA — an idea the community has returned to across both eras of the list. · 2009 → 2023-06 - TAP-to-Cart — TS2068 Cartridge Conversion 🌲 Evergreen — Jeff Burrell
Converts a TS2068 TAP (tape) file into a cartridge image — a BIN for burning to EPROM and a DCK for emulators — so tape software can be run from, or made into, a cartridge. · 2022-07 → 2022-11 - UnoDos 🌲 Evergreen — Jeff Burrell
A modern storage/interface effort for the TS2068 by Jeff Burrell, worked out in a long 2022 design thread. · 2022-02 → 2022-08
📚 Reference & findings
- DEF FN & BASIC Technique Deep-Dives 🌲 Evergreen — Ryan Gray
Ryan Gray's investigations into Sinclair/Timex BASIC's user-defined functions — recursion, passing parameters to subroutines via the DEFADD trick, bit-testing — turning an obscure corner of BASIC into reusable technique. · 2023-07 → 2025-06
🗄️ Preservation
- Library Tape Archiving Process 🟢 Active — Adam Trionfo
The community's ongoing methodology and effort to archive TS2068 club/library cassette tapes — capturing, cleaning, and preserving cassette software as TAP/TZX images. · 2022-11 → 2026-05 - The Bill Miller Collection 🌲 Evergreen — Tim Swenson
The acquisition, cataloging, and community dispersal of Bill Miller's large Timex/Sinclair collection — hardware saved, documented, and repaired rather than lost. · 2023-10 → 2024-02
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