| "All The News Fit to Print" | ARCTAN COMPUTER VENTURES or Northampton, England, is an excellent source of support for the ZX81 or TS 1000 computers. The part software company and ZX81 magazine publishers have a five page brochure available. Arctan Computer Ventures (or A.C.V.), offers over a dozen different software titles, many of which are games (but also some utilities…like a Z80 Disassembler). | Sinclair QL, Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| "Remember Back When.." | Fred reminisces about the Timex/Sinclair computers. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| BASIC2text .... Extending the use of MTERM II | Program to remove non-ASCII control codes and expand tokens to full ASCII equivalents so that programs may be uploaded to BBSes and shared with other users. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Beginning Z80 Machine Code, Lesson 5 | I left the last lesson with a challenge to you to rewrite the sample disassembly from Lesson 2 to eliminate the overflow error it contained. If you had difficulty, refer to Lesson 4. The answer was given in the comparison which explained the ADC instruction. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| I Built a QL Kit | Review of user-assembled QL available from dealers. | Sinclair QL |
| Kaleidoscope | Many "Kaleidoscope" programs have appeared over the years. These simple, but fascinating graphics displays have been adapted to virtually every computer ever built. The ZX81/TS family is no exception. Unfortunately, since the Z80 CPU in these machines is {effectively} clocked at only -5 mHZ in SLOW mode, the result is rather slow and BO-RING. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Letters | Redirecting output from the screen to the printer on the 2068; Ski and Cavern games a hit; mathematic equalities; help with Larken disk drive; football prediction program. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Musician Royal | MUSICIAN ROYAL is one of the most recent programs released for the 2068. Written by Dr. Oleg D. Jefimenko and sold by Electret Scientific Company, it proves to be one of the more comprehensive music programs available. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| New Spectrum Off to Giant; Start American Travelers Abroad Report on PC Show | American Timex Sinclair distributors Rob and Debbie Curry of Curry Computer and John Warburton of Sunset Electronics attended the annual Personal Computer Show in Olympia, Great Britain, the first weekend of September. | Sinclair ZX Spectrum |
| QL Etcher | Etch-a-Sketch for the QL. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| QL Quill/Word Processor Tips | QL Word Processor AKA QLWP AKA Quill–the least acclaimed of the four Psion software programs bundled with the Sinclair QL–is still a good word processor, especially with added memory and RAMdisk. Quill’s chief fault is that it is a bit slow in carrying out some operations. | Sinclair QL |
| Simply Music | Basic program that uses the three sound channels of the TS 2068 to create music. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Smart Text TS-2068 | "SMART TEXT TS-2068" is Bill Jones' effort to create an AppleWorks environment for your TS-2068. The package includes a text editor and manager integrated with a small mailing list routine. Other convenient features are printer formatting for a variety of utilitarian purposes and in a variety of type styles. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Son of Ultra-Easy Designer Graphics | Patches to upgrade Ultra-Easy Designer Graphics to handle 116 UDGs. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Sprites 2068 | SPRITES 2068 is a sprite development and handler package. Those of you that have the Technical Manual will note that there is an appendix, number C-5, devoted to this subject. This program is none other than this same code. SPRITES 2068 co-authors Tidwell and Ruegg have "debugged” the Timex sprite package code. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| The Folks Who Bring You Time Designs | This being our 2nd Anniversary Issue and the start of our 3rd year of publication, I’m going to pass up the usual column featured here, and introduce you to some folks responsible for putting out TIME DESIGNS six times a year. | |
| The Mystery of the Missing 253, Part Three | The heading really says it all. I’ve been quite pleased and encouraged by your response to Part 1. This is really turning into an “interactive series”, as I’d hoped, and I want to invite you to keep writing and calling with your ideas and questions. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Tone/Phone 2068? | Program to simulate the tones produced by a touch-tone phone. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| TS Computerfest II Plans Aired | Groundwork for the Second Annual Mid West TS Computerfest underway. | |
| TS1000/TS1500 Program Chaining, Part Four | For a practical demonstration of a chained program, using the Above RAMTOP method of passing data from one module to another, I have chosen one consisting of three modules. A module to set RAMTOP (“RT”), a text entry module (“TE”), and a text LPRINT module (“PRT”). | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 1500, Type-in program |
| Understanding and Upgrading The TS1016 RAM Pack | This is the second part on upgrading your TS 1016 RAM pack to 64k. Last issue we discussed the ins and outs of dynamic memory and how the Sinclair RAM pack works. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
