| 2068 Graphic Goodies | A couple of graphic goodies that won't take hours to type in but demonstrate some neat graphic capabilities of the TS2068. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Catch A Dragon! | Program to plot "dragon curves." A dragon curve is a regular fractal which forms from an infinitely repeated construction process. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 1500, Type-in program |
| Creating a Four Port Expansion Decoder | Memory-mapped IO for the 1000 computer. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Exclusive Interview: Nigel Searle, "Sinclair Insider" | It was very early on a Sunday morning, and it was pouring down large rain drops, quite warm and humid, but drenching indeed. Perhaps the weather was fitting for the occasion…similar to the climate of Great Britain, the homeland of my distinguished breakfast guest (and certainly of the Northwest where I reside). | Cambridge Z88, Sinclair QL |
| First Class Fonts II | 1st Class Fonts II's main program has three basic parts: a library of "fonts" (or type styles), a simple word process and a "definer" that allows the user to modify or change any character within one of the font sets. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| From the Editor | About the cover: Tim Woods' son in a Sinclair C5; Sinclair contracted with Hoover to manufacture the vehicle in the US. Paul Bingham designed the new logo. | |
| It Came in the Mail | Letters from readers. Solution to Puzzle of the Month from a prior issue; using serial printers with the TS2068; articles on disk; QL machine code; a program to keep young children occupied on the TS2068. | Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Just Released | A comprehensive Timex/Sinclair Public Domain Software Library is maintained by the VISTA (Vashon Island, Washington) group and is available to the general public. Currently there are six 60-minute cassette tapes of programs for the TS1000. Programs for the 2068 will be offered shortly. | Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Paul Bingham Evaluates the Z88: Is the New Computer Too Much of a Break From Tradition? | Is the New Computer Too Much of a Break from Tradition? Some grumbling as to whether the new Z88 laptop computer should be included in the “Sinclair family” have fallen on my ears and perhaps yours. | Cambridge Z88 |
| Reader Survey Results Continued | When we ran a questionnaire/survey in several issues of TIME DESIGNS, we had over 280 responses, which is approximately eleven percent of our current circulation. The first part of the survey dealt with information about our subscribers (age, occupation, hobbys, etc.), and questions about equipment owned. | |
| Resident Procedures | One of the many powers lurking within the QL is the ease of extending SuperBASIC. The simplest means of doing this is by defining PROCedures or FuNctions within a SuperBASIC program. The newly defined PROCedure or FuNction is then treated as a SuperBASIC keyword (i.e., PRINT, MODE, SAVE, CODE, etc.). | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Spectrum Product News | Twister boards and Spectrum ROMs available. Datel Robotarm, Romantic Robot Videoface, Rotronics Wafadrive, and Tascalc mentioned. | Sinclair ZX Spectrum |
| Text87: An Advanced QL Wordprocessor | As I indicated in the Time Designs Tests section of the last issue, Software87’s Text87 wordprocessor for the QL is billed as a full-featured, WYSIWYG wordprocessor designed for easy use by amateurs, but ranks in user-friendliness somewhere between QL QUILL and The Editor. | Sinclair QL |
| The Newsroom | A Sinclair IBM "Clone" (the Amstrad PC-1640 rebadged as a "Sinclair"). Summer T/S shows: Third Annual Northwest/International Timex Sinclair Mini-Fair; 1988 Midwest Timex Sinclair Conference. | |
| The Programming Corner | Questions about Larken disk system; programming in machine code; recovering from data loss. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| TS Communique: Your Hardware Problems Explored | Mindware MW-100 printer with TS2068; composite/RGB monitor blanking when used with 1000; interfacing to TTL monitors; Hacksel interface with Radio Shack DMP-105; DMP-105 with Memotech I/F and 1000; non-linearity of 2040 printout. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
