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TASWORD 128
THE WORD PROCESSOR FOR THE SPECTRUM 128
Tasword 128 is the word processorespecially developed to
take full advantage of the extra memory offered by the
Spectrum 128. Tasword 128 includes the following
features.
DOCUMENT LENGTH: Tasword 128 has been specifically
developed to utilise the additional 64K of the Spectrum
memory as text space. This means the program can hold a
massive 60,000 characters in memory at any one time,
enough room for over 10,000 words!
128 CHARACTERS PER LINE: Tasword 128 features the
64 character per line display pioneered by Tasword Two.
Sideways scrolling allows text to be typed with up to 128
characters per line.
ON SCREEN FORMATTING: With automatic word wrap
and right justification, Tasword 128 keeps your text neat
and leaves you free to concentrate on the keyboard.
Tasword prints your text exactly as it appears on screen.
HELP COMMANDS: Part of the help page can be
optionally be shown at the top of the screen. Two control
keys can be used to scroll this part of the help page up and
down through the en tire help page. The ability to view the
help page at the same time as you are typingisa majoraid
to the effective use of the comprehensive Tasword 128
commands.
CURSOR MOVEMENT: Start of text—end of textstart/end
of paragraph —start/end of line— fast scroll
up/down — word left/right start of page —start of next
page—an on screen page breakdisplayshows where each
new page will begin when you print your text.
DELETE: Delete a character—delete left— delete under—
delete a line —a word—a block. An "undelete"command
recovers an accidentally deleted line.
INSERT: Insert character/line— insert mode on/off—auto
insert mode on/off. Auto insert makes room for the
additional characters AND rejustifies the text as you type!
TAB COMMANDS: TAB commands to TAB rightand left.
All TAB stop positions are user definable.
PRINT OPTIONS: Tasword 128 includes a sophisticated
set of print options including multiple copies, page
numbers, headers and footers.
DATA MERGE: When transferred to microdrive Tasword
128 includes a powerful data merge facility. This allows,
for example, a letter to be printed any number of times,
each copy individually addressed from a list of names and
addresses stored on microdrive. This powerful facility is
much more than a standard mail merge. Data can be
printed anywhere in your document and printing can be
made conditional: just send a letter to London addresses
for example.
Incorporatingall the powerful word processingofTasword
Three (and mail merge functions when run on microdrive),
Tasword 128 is the definitive word processor for the
Spectrum 128.
Tasword 128 is supplied on cassette and can easily be
transferred to cartridge for microdrive operation.
TASWORD 128 Cassette (19.50
TRSWORD 128
The Word Processor
© Tasman Software Ltd 1986
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TASWIDE
THE SCREEN STRETCHER
Tasword Two broke new barriers for the ZX Spectrum by
giving64 characters per line on the screen. Nowyourown
Basic programs can display 64 characters per line with
Taswide.
Taswide is a machine code program that is simple to use
and, using ordinary print statements, you can mix both
character sizes on the screen to produce sophisticated
displays showing a great deal of information. Taswide is
especially useful for annotating graphics displays and
diagrams.
TASWIDE ZX 48K Spectrum Cassette f5.50
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Products Fo rthe ZX A Spect rum
TRSWORD TWO
The. word processor £13.90
T RSMER GE
The Mai t Merger £10.90
TRSPR INT
The style Writer £9.90
T R'S CO Pl'
The Screen Copier £9.90
T R5ld IDE
The Screen Stretcher £S.SO
Parallel Interface E39.90
..5232 Printer Interface £38.89
TASMAN SOFTWARE
Productss for the ZX Spectrum '
04500D TWO This is a screen copy of a
The word processor 313.90 display that was programmed
using TRSO IDE. This
TASNER6E screen copy shows how you
The Nail Mer g er 310.90 can obtain more inforwatiue
displays with TRSW IDE
TASPPIAT
The Style Writer 39.90 This screen copy was printed
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The Screen Copier 39.90
using the TA5NAf1 IOTERFACE
scretn copy software. This
software is supplied free
with the TASNAI IOTEPPACES
TASWIDE and prints large size screen
The Screen Stretcher E5.50 copies as well as these
standard size Copies.
Parallel Interface 339.90 TASCOPV prints s.miliar
5232 Printer Interface 333.00 copies uia Z% Interface 1.
TASWORD TWO
THE WORD PROCESSOR
Tasword Two led the way in settinga new standard for
word processingon the ZX Spectrum. Witha hostof useful
features Tasword Two is the ideal cassette based word
processing package for the ZX 48K Spectrum. Tasword
Two includes the following features:
64 CHARACTERS PER LINE: The 64 characters per line
displayis ideal forstandardA4 paper. Margins can be set to
any position within the 64 column displayand thus you can
improve your presentation by indenting parts of your text
for highlighting and lists.
ON SCREEN FORMATTING: Tasword prints your text
exactlyas itappears on screen. Automatic word-wrap and
right justification take place as text is typed. Tasword
keeps the text neat and leaves you free to concentrate on
the keyboard.
FORMATTING COMMANDS: Reform paragraph –
move text left– move text right–centre line.
HELP COMMANDS: Two help pages summarise the
powerful facilities available with Tasword Two. Both help
pages can be displayed on screen at the touch of a key, an
invaluable aid for the effective use of the facilities offered
by Tasword Two.
CURSOR MOVEMENT: Move cursor to start of text-
, move cursor to end of text–scroll up– scroll down–fast
scroll up – fast scroll down – move cursor to word right–
move cursor to word left.
INSERT COMMANDS: Insert line – insert character–
insert mode on/off.
FIND AND REPLACE: Find and replace every occurence of
a specified word with some other word orgroup of words.
BLOCK COMMANDS: Mark beginning of block – mark
end of block – move marked block–copy marked block.
PRINTER COMMANDS: Start atline and finish at line
commands enable you to printall ora selected part of your
document. You can also specify the line spacing required.
It's easy to utilise the capabilities of your full width printer.
Tasword Two allows the user to define all of the Spectrum
graphics symbols to be a control instruction for your
printer. If your printer has these functions you can type
graphics characters into yourtextto instruct your printer to
print in enlarged characters, italics, pica, elite, etc. These
instructions can be mixed within the text to produce
quality documents.
With these and other features Tasword Two turns your
Spectrum into a professional standard word processor.
Tasword Two is supplied complete with manual and the
TASWORD TWO TUTOR, a text file recorded on the tape
to help you explore and discover the powerful facilities
offered by Tasword Two.
TASWORD TWO ZX 48K Spectrum Cassette f13.90
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TASPRINT
THE STYLE WRITER
A must for dot matrix printer owners. Discover new ways
to get value from your printer. Print program output and
listings in a choice of five impressive print styles. Tasprint
utilises the graphics capabilities of dot matrix printers to
form, with a double pass of the print head, output in a
range of five fonts varying from the futuristicDATARUN
to the handwriting style of PALACE SCRIPT.
Tasprintcan also be merged with both Tasword Three and
Tasword Two. Text files can then be printed using one or
more of the effective Tasprint fonts to give your output
originality and style.
All of the five Tasprint fonts can be underlined, boxed or
printed inversely. Please note there is some variation in
print sizes between different makes of printer.
TASPRINT ZX 48K Spectrum Cassette f9.90
Microdrive f11.40
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0930 Finance Meeting
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1100 Interuier - Miss Stephens
DUMBER 1985
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Tas-Diaryisa fastand efficient electronic day-to-day diary.
Tas-Diary features a separate screen display ("page" of
the diary) foreverydayof the year. Each page includesthe
current date and time, a calendar for the current month,
and a large area for making your diary notes.
Tas-Diary is supplied on cassette for automatic transfer to
microdrive cartridge. Each cartridge becomes a diary for a
particular year. This means that with Tas-Diary you can
create a diary not just for this year, but for every year into
the distant future! You can even use Tas-Diary for past
years if you want to keep "historical" data.
Tas-Diary includes an automatic sort facility. This means,
for example, that the list of appointments shown on the
screen copyabove could have been entered in any order-
Tas-Diary will sort them into the logical order shown.
There is also a find facility which searches the current
month in memory foreach occurence of a particular name
or event. With these and other features Tas-Diary is an
invaluable aid to keeping records, reminders, and any
other data which is related to that most valuable
commodity of ours– time!
Please note Tas-Diary will only run on microdrive.
TAS-DIARY ZX 48K Spectrum Cassette f9.90
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drive the following dot-matrix printers:
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EPSON FX-80 TALIYMT-80 BROTHER HR5 COSMOS-80
EPSONRX-80 BROTHERM 1009 DATACPANTHER AMSTRADDMP2000
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TASCOPY
THE SCREEN COPIER
A suite of fast machine code screen copy software forZX
Interface 1. The monochrome screen copy software prints
black and white high resolution screen copies in a choice of
two sizes. The printed screen copy is approximately A5 in
size although there is some variation between different
makes of printer. The small sized monochrome copy is
approximately one quarter of the large sized copy.
The "grey-scale" Tascopy software prints large screen
copies, approximately A4 in size. The Spectrum screen
colours are printed with differing dot densities to give a
shaded monochrome representation of the screen
colouring.
Tascopy supports all eight pin dot matrix printers with
Epson type control codes. Please note Tascopy is only for
use with the R5232 port of ZX Interface 1.
A version of the Tascopy screen copy software is available
for use with the Opus Discovery disc drive. The software
prints high resolution screen copies through the Opus
parallel port.
TASCOPYZX 48K Spectrum Cassette £9.90
Microdrive £11.40
3.5 inch disc (for the Opus Discovery) f12.90

TAS WOR'D THREE
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ZX Spectrum. TASWORD THREE pioneers the new standard.
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TASWORD THREE has all the features and capabilities of
TASWORD TWO. The following list summarises the major
ADDITIONAL commands and facilities offered by TASWORD
THREE.
UP TO 128 CHARACTERS PER LINE: Tasword Three has the
same 64 characterperline display as pioneered by Tasword Two.
Sideways scrolling allows text to be typed with up to 128
characters per line.
SPEED: Tasword Three is fast! Cursor moving and scrolling
speeds have been more than doubled! On screen paragraph
rejustification can optionally be suppressed with a resulting
massive gain in speed.
HELP COMMANDS: Part of the help page can be optionally
shown at the top of the screen (see the right hand screen shot
above). Two control keys can be used to scroll this part of the
help page up and down through the entire help page. The ability
to view the help page at the same time as you are typing your
text isa majoraid to the effective use of the comprehensive setof
Tasword Three commands.
You can edit the part of the help page that shows the printer
control graphics characters. This means that after you have
defined the graphics characters to use the special features of
your printer you can also change the help page so that you have
a permanent reminder of the function of your graphics
characters.
TASWORD THREE retains all the features which have made Tasword Two a
household name for the Spectrum. With many additional features and
enhancements, including a built-in mail merge and up to 128
characters per line, TASWORD THREE is the definitive word
processor for the Spectrum and Spectrum+ with microdrive.
CURSOR MOVEMENT: New commands move thecursortothe
start or end of a line, to the start or end of a paragraph, or to the
start of a page or the start of the next page. An on-screen "page
break display" shows where each new page will begin when you
print your text.
DELETE COMMANDS: The new delete commands include
delete word, delete left, delete under, and delete block. The
delete line command is now complemented by an "undelete
line " command which recovers an accidentally deleted line.
FORMATTING COMMANDS: A new "hard rejustify "
command puts a paragraph within new margin settings. If you
wish to, for example, indent a paragraph after you have typed it
then all you have to do is set the required margins and press a
single control key!
INSERTION COMMANDS: A new "auto insert" mode allows
characters to be typed into the middle of existing text. With this
auto insert mode Tasword Three automatically makes room for
the additional characters AND keeps rejustifying the entire
paragraph as you type!
TAB COMMANDS: Tab stops are a set of pre-defined positions
across the screen which the cursorcan be moved to with a single
control key action. Tab stops are invaluable when, for example,
entering columns of names or numbers. Tas word Three has tab
stops and commands to tab right and tab left. Additional
commands can be used to define your own tab stop positions.
REPLACE OR FIND TEXT: This facility now indudes the option to
ignore case (so that "the" will find "The" and "THE" as well as
"the"). The replace option can be specified to be selective, in
which case the program pauses whenever it finds the specified
word, and allows you to choose whether the replacement
should take place or not.
SECOND CHARACTER SET: Tasword Three has an additional
character set of more than seventy foreign and specialist
characters.
TRSWORD THREE
The Word Processor
© Tasman Software Ltd 1986
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finish at Line (Last)
number of Copies (1)
Line spacing (1)
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print header (N) Y/N
print footer (N) Y/N
pr i nt page numbers iNl Y/N
at top or bottom (T) T/B
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start page number (1)
Left print margin (0)
FF after printing (N) Y/N
Press ENTER For defaults
OR to start again
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EDIT to return to menu
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TASWORD THREE — THE WORD PROCESSOR — Microdrive f16.50
PRINT OPTIONS: Tasword Three includes a sophisticated set of
printoptions (see the third screen shotabove). You can printany
number of copies of your text, and print page numbers and
headers and footers. A very long document, held on cartridge as
a number of different text files, can be printed with a single print
command.
PRINTER CONTROL CHARACTERS: Tasword Two pioneered
the use of the 16 Spectrum graphics characters in sending
control codes to printers. Tasword Three has twice as many-32
–graphics characters, each of which can be used as a printer
control code.
DATA MERGE: A major new facility. This allows, for example.
your letter to be printed any number of times, each copy
individually addressed from a list of names and addresses stored
on microdrive. This extremely powerful facility is much more
than a standard mail merge. It is not restricted to just names and
addresses and your data can be printed anywhere in your
document. Printing can be made conditional: justsenda letter to
people with London addresses, forexample. The Tasword Three
microdrive includes several demonstration files which
demonstrate the powerful potential of this data merge facility.
PROGRAM CUSTOMISATION: It is straightforward to
customise Tasword Three to your own requirements and
preferences. A comprehensive set of customisation options
includes, for example, the ability to select screen colours, cursor
shape, and default margin positions.
MICRODRIVES: Tasword Three is only supplied on, and will
only run on microdrives. Text can be backed up to tape. Special
care has been taken to use the microdrives to best advantage.
For example, Tasword Three includes a new catalogue routine
that prints the filenames in three columns so that a catalogue of
a cartridge with many files does not give a screen scroll. The
Tasword Three cartridge includes a program for converting
Tas word Two text files to the new compressed Tasword Three
file format.
TASWORD THREE is supplied on microdrive cartridge together
with a comprehensive 60 page manual. In addition to the
program the cartridge contains the following files:
TASWORD THREE TUTOR: an informative and enjoyable
guide to TASWORD THREE for the first time user. This tutor
teaches you word processing using TASWORD THREE on the
screen in real time.
THE README FILE: lots of additional information on how to
make best use of the program, together with useful information
for specialist users.
THE DATA MERGE FILES: a set of files that can be used in
conjunction with the tutorial guide in the program manual to
learn how to make the best use of the powerful data merge
facility.
TASPRINT: Tasprint is fully compatible with Tasword
Three. The Tasword Three manual includes details on
merging the special Tasprint fonts with the program.
TASWORD THREE FOR THE OPUS DISCOVERY.
A special version of Tasword Three is available for the
Opus Discovery disc drive. The Opus version of Tasword
Three incorporates all the facilities and features of the
microdrive version and is supplied on 3.5 inch disc.
TASWORD THREE for the Opus Discovery
3.5 inch disc f19.50.