--- title: "Time Designs Tests: A Professional Monitor, a unique CADPAK, and some games!" type: "article" slug: "time-designs-tests-a-professional-monitor-a-unique-cadpak-and-some-games" url: "http://localhost/article/time-designs-tests-a-professional-monitor-a-unique-cadpak-and-some-games/" markdown_url: "http://localhost/article/time-designs-tests-a-professional-monitor-a-unique-cadpak-and-some-games.md" published_at: "2026-11-03T17:33:14+00:00" modified_at: "2026-11-03T21:15:08+00:00" featured_image: url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg" excerpt: "My apologies! We were supposed to discuss Digital Precision's DESKTOP PUBLISHER Special Edition and the QUANTA Library's PAGE DESIGNER this month, but the great facilitator failed to come through with the former, and an updated version of the latter did not arrive in time. C'mon great facilitator! We'll report on these next time, if. .…" post_tag: - name: "QL" slug: "ql" taxonomy: "post_tag" url: "http://localhost/tag/ql/" - name: "Quanta" slug: "quanta" taxonomy: "post_tag" url: "http://localhost/tag/quanta/" - name: "Software review" slug: "software-review" taxonomy: "post_tag" url: "http://localhost/tag/software-review/" model: - name: "Sinclair QL" slug: "sinclair-ql" taxonomy: "model" url: "http://localhost/model/sinclair-ql/" indiv: - name: "Mike de Sosa" slug: "mike-de-sosa" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/mike-de-sosa/" publication_r: id: 10277 title: "Time Designs Magazine" type: "periodical" url: "http://localhost/periodical/time-designs-magazine/" authors: "Mike de Sosa" volume: "4" issue: "1" issues_articles: - id: 36805 title: "Time Designs Magazine v4 n1" type: "issue" url: "http://localhost/issue/time-designs-magazine-v4-n6-2/" pages: "22" pubdate: "November/December 1987" archive_link: false --- # Time Designs Tests: A Professional Monitor, a unique CADPAK, and some games! My apologies! We were supposed to discuss Digital Precision’s DESKTOP PUBLISHER Special Edition and the QUANTA Library’s PAGE DESIGNER this month, but the great facilitator failed to come through with the former, and an updated version of the latter did not arrive in time. C’mon great facilitator! We’ll report on these next time, if. . . . ### PROFESSIONAL MONITOR * * * * * Hat’s off to COMPWARE for Computer 1’s new PROFESSIONAL MONITOR which has been described as “the most sophisticated debugging tool available for the QL assembly language programmer.” I’m, personally, no great shakes as such a programmer, but I’ve run some demonstration programs and know enough to compare PM with several other top-rated monitors in my possession. PM is a real stickout by quite a margin! In addition to the standard features, and a few unrivalled ones, in its previous version, its new features include a symbolic debugging and management capability; an integral Motorola 68000 two-pass assembler; dual-screen debugging; the capability to assemble single and multiple lines of source code using either keyboard entry or entry from existing files; function key control of monitor clones; and fifteen or so new or modified commands. To those unfamiliar with symbolic debugging, it is just a shorthand methodology to take some of the drudgery out of assembly language programming. There is a lot more that one could say here, but I believe this will be sufficient to whet the appetite of any QL assembly language programmer. From COMPWARE, 57 Repton Drive, Haslington, Crewe CW1 1SA, U.K., telephone (0270) 582301; mention my name and Time Designs’ for a possible discount. Sorry, no credit cards: use a post office to deposit funds to Girobank account no. 67 361 9508. How much? I’d guess about $65. ### PRO-CAD 3 * * * * * Datanet Systems excellent Pro-CAD 3, is a unique two- or three-dimensional, plotter-ready design tool for the QL-user who wants to visualize a design in two or three dimensions rather than building a 3D model. Like so many other programs today, PC3 was written in SuperBASIC and compiled using one of the several programs which convert BASIC to the much faster and more compact machine code. PC3 is unique in that it employs a dual screen depicting the plan view of a design and, interchangably, an elevation or side view: this is to accurately portray design data in the third dimension or z-axis, which is difficult to do in most similar software. PC3 is completely menu-driven and, after a bit of getting used to, easy to learn and use. It is also well-documented and has a comprehensive, interactive HELP facility The Main Mode screen consists of two side-by-side vertical windows depicting the plan view of a design in the right and an elevation or side view in the left. A thin strip at the top lists various major functions which, if selected, drop a pop-down window from the top of the screen. A data window depicting X, Y, and Z dimensions and angles and other data is at the bottom center of the screen. A crosshair-type cursor may be moved between windows. With this arrangement, it is amazingly easy to draw three-dimensional figures. Once drawn, you may magnify, rotate, zoom in and out, with a comprehensive array of controls, or select a three-dimensional representation with or without perspective. Circles and other stock figures are drawn where they’re supposed to be drawn on U.S. (JSU ROM QLs). Designs may be output to a standard Epson-compatible printer or a wide range of plotters. PC3 was written by draftsmen for draftsmen. No price information was included with the software nor in advertising. Datanet Systems advises that they are anxious to do business in the U.S.A. Write to Datanet Systems, P.O. Box 121, Luton, Beds., U.K. for further details. ### BUNKERED * * * QUANTA Library’s BUNKERED is quite an engrossing golf simulation played over eighteen holes. Using three woods, five irons, and a putter (once on the green), choose your club, select an angle, and adjust the strength of your swing accordingly. You may choose various routes to the pin, depending on your derring-do. Try it, you’ll like it. Available with QUANTA membership through a QUANTA librarian. Write [Tom Bent](http://localhost/indiv/tom-bent/), 9016 Flicker Pl., Columbia, MD 21045 or telephone (during 7-10pm EST) [phone number omitted]. Sign up for QUANTA! ### BRIDGE * * * 1/2 Sinclair QL World’s Microdrive Exchange offers BRIDGE and many other programs at bargain prices. Available at about $10, this contract bridge simulation is quite good with comprehensive options and far, far better than the commercially available BRIDGEPLAYER II. But Digital Precision’s new MICROBRIDGE is on the horizon at about $55. Order GOLF using application blanks in Sinclair QL World or send a SASE (envelope) to TIME DESIGNS for a facsimile.