| Blank the Screen | A 68000 assembler program, BLANK_EXE, that blanks the QL's screen after about three minutes without a keypress, to keep a static image from burning into the monitor's phosphor; pressing the space bar brings the screen back. The full commented source is listed, and the author offers the ready-to-use program to readers without an assembler. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Front Page Extra | A review of GAP Software's Front Page Extra, desktop publishing for an expanded QL (384K or more). It keeps two A4 pages in memory, imports Quill _doc files and BASIC listings into columns, offers five fonts (French accents only in the "QL" font), prints on Epson-compatible printers in double or quadruple density, and has a rudimentary line-drawing mode and UDG sets. Verdict: a good product that keeps improving, at £37.95. | Sinclair QL |
| Pretty_bas | PRETTY_BAS, a SuperBASIC utility that rewrites a program file with its listing indented to show the structure of procedures, loops and IF blocks. A before-and-after example shows the effect, and the full listing (marked "enhanced version -mtl") follows; it asks for a source file and an optional destination name. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| REMark: The First Issue | Réal Gagnon introduces the first issue of QL_DOC, a French-language newsletter devoted entirely to the Sinclair QL. It is produced with GAP Software's Front Page, will carry programs, software reviews and QL news, and invites readers to send in articles on paper, microdrive or 5.25" or 3.5" disk. | Sinclair QL |
| Sinclair News | News items: Sinclair's Z88 laptop shown at COMDEX (Z80, OZ operating system, PipeDream, BBC BASIC, 8-line LCD, about $400 US); Q_LINK, a multitasking communications program with XMODEM from Meta Media of Vancouver; and Simon Goodwin's SPEEDSCREEN from Creative Codeworks, which speeds up the QL's screen output up to 12 times. | Cambridge Z88, Sinclair QL |
