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The independent Dragon magazine

November 1988

Contents

Letters

Soundhouse

Illegal letters? m o r e Armitage r i b b o n

help d u m p adaptation needed u t i l i t y

appeal b a c k i s s u e collectors t o o old to

Expert! ...Atari acknowledgement.

Editorial

MERCY. Just for one month, let us off

Wayne S mit h so n t a k e s a n o t h e r c ra c k

about the deliberate mistakes, will

at b e in g a s t a r wit h a s imp le so u n d

you please? I expect you found a few

digitiser.

in October's DU. I hope you did I

Expert's Arcade Arena 21

don't want totally blind readers. Let

The Expert ca sts a n e ye b a ck o ve r th e

me just say, you should have seen it

year's most recent and best arcade game

the way y o u nearly got your old

releases.

front page back, you know, the one

Winners and losers 2 2

that says 'Sunshine Publications'. I

Gordon Lee looks at so me entries to the

don't want t o mention the P

competition.

—

**rile' in Dragon User ever again, but

there lwas a wee bit of a rush. And we

Write: ADVENTURE 2 3

s t a

have a new typeset op (Linda), totally

Pete G e rra rd g e t s i n t o s o m e d e e p

geography in the capital.

innocent of any Dragons in the past,

and a new paste-up person a t the

Adventure Trail 2 4

Pete Gerrard visits an adventure forum and

same time, and Pete pleading writer's

says, beware of experts bearing personal

block (but we got him in the end.

Send him some letters and cheer him

opinions.

up.) and you can have hours of fun

Competition

Gordon L e e h a s a n ice a sso rtme n t o f

drawing in the Dragon logo on the

coconuts plus Utopia and Spy against Spy

Crossword page yourself.

from Pulser Software to win.

I realise by saying this that I am call-

ing Mr. Sod down on this issue, but we

Communications 2 7

are watching

And coupons.

Further details about the Colour

No classiﬁed ads, this month.

Computer Convention from Dragon-

Dragon Answers 2 8

ﬁre on page 5 within. Don't forget to

Dragon and Ouattro E X E C for TEXT a

note about Postscript , • wa n t e d : sh a re s

go if you can. This is the Dragon show

of the Autumn. We want one next

software.

Spring.

Subscriptions

ISSN 0265-177

How to submit articles

The quality of the material we can publish in

Dragon User each month will, to a very great ex-

tent depend on the quality of the discoveries that

you can make with your Dragon. The Dragon

computer was launched on to the market with a

powerful version of Basic, but with very poor

documentation.

Articles which are submitted to Dragon User

for publication should not be more than 3000

words long. All submissions should be typed

Please leave wide margins and a double space

between each line. Programs should, whenever

possibkc be computer printed on plain white

paper and be accompanied by a tape of the

program.

We cannot guarantee to return every submit-

ted article or program, so please keep a copy. If

you want to haveyour program returned you must

include a stamped addressed envelope.

News

Kouga releases Ba ll Dozer S e i g f r i e d ' s

keyboards S o l v e r set for sale a d . copy

dates D r a g o n couriers overcome odds.

Dragonsoft 6

Business Finance Recording System from

L le we llyn Ro b in s S tu d io s Dia mo n d

the

Manor fro m Dragonﬁ re C o p y c a t fro m

Pulser S e a l' n ' Ty p e add on from Preston

Picture Maker from John Penn.

Something stirred ••• 8

1 5

Roger Merrick warms top the early history

of the CoCo, the Tandy Colour Computer.

Dragonswordl

Crossword

Paul Grade asks, is there really such a thing

as a computer? Or is it all a con?

Crossword 12 with tapes to win.

Four more commands 1 2

P D S Mit h resurrects, interrogates, p in

points and normalises his disc ﬁles.

Primesearch

Paul Weedon makes life easier for those in-

terested in prime matters.

Telephone number

(01) 570 8335

UK £14 for 12 issues

Overseas (surface) E20 for 12 issues

Editor

HELEN ARMSTRONG

Address: Dragon Publications, 49 Alexan-

dra Road, Hounslow, Middlesex TW3

United Kingdom.

Published by Dragon Publications 1988

(c.) Dragon Publications 1988

Typeset by Artset Limited, London NW1

Production Editor

HELEN ARMSTRONG/ARTSET

Administration/Advertising

BOB HARRIS

Printed by Headley Brothers Ltd. Ashford,

Kent

Registered at the Post Ofﬁce as a

newspaper. Dragon and its logo are

trademarks of Eurohard Ltd.

Publisher

DRAGON PUBLICATIONS

Letters

Atari nice

to Dragons

THE following is an extract from

a re c e n t A t a r i ma g a z in e ]

"Its use of custom chips rather

than st a n d a rd o ff-th e -sh e lf

designs makes its architecture

one o f e sse n tia l e co n o my.

Following on, in fact, fro m the

mould set by the Dragon, would

you b e lie ve . T h e i r d e sig n ,

though an 8-bit, was very much

a pioneer,"

Isn't is a nice change to see

another magazine giving the

Dragon a bit of credit, instead of

making fun of it?

Finally, a bigthankyou to all at

Dagon Userand all the software

houses which continue to sup-

port the Dragon. Keep up the

good work.

David Beckwith

3 Cholsey Road

Seige Cross

Thatcham

Newbury

Berks

RG134GH

YES INDEED, although most

e x-u se rs r e m e m b e r t he

Dragon with affection: it's on-

ly the boring old newcomers

whothinkitwasatoymachine

like the ZX81.

Now, it would be useful to

meto know whom writthat lit-

tle bit, and in which magazine

it appeared and, if possible,

when. Information is power.

Can you oblige?

This is your chance to air your views — send your tips, compliments and complaints to Letters

Page, Dragon User, 49 Alexandra Road, Hounslow, Middx TW3 4HP

Every month we will be shelling out a game or two,

courtesy of our supplies, to the readerts

who send the most interesting or

entertaining letters. So send

us your hints and your opinions,

send us your hi-scores and

suggestions. Send us your

best Dragon stories. What

d'you think we are,

mind readers?!

Ribbon you

can't refuse

ANYONE who is having touble

in ﬁ n d in g a rib b o n f o r t h e ir

GP-100A, g ive me a rin g o n

0473-718898, Mo n d a ys a n d

Wednesdays only, 5 o'clockon-

wards please.

Chris Sheppard

119 Shetland Close

Ipswich

Suffolk

3DZ

I put a spell on you

RE A DING J o n a t h a n C a r t -

wright's piece on Data Trees in

theJuly issues, I was impressed

by the simplicity of his spelling

checker. Ho we ve r, o n mo re

matureconsideration, I wonder

if it would work! The algorithm

detectswhether each pair of let-

ters in a given word is 'legal'

within t h e fra me wo rk o f a c-

cepted English spelling prac-

tice, and to a serendipitous peck

proponent like myself, o r the

putative author o f The Silent

Miaouitwouid seem ideal. On a

keyboard, my delicate ﬁngers(l

am six foot ﬁve) often spread

over two keys. Yet I sense a pit-

fall in t h e syste m th a t h e is

e mp lo yin g :

Legal words: batter, better, bit-

ter, butter...Possible wo rd s :

boner (bo, ot, tt are legal in those

positions, b u t th is i s n o t a n

English word)'. Similarly, bath

and both and possibly beth are

English, b u t b it h a n d b u t h

are n o t , b u t t h e y a r e s t i l l

legal.

The permissible combinations

of p a irs o f letters in English

should lend themselves to the

typeof manipulation described

in the article, but the unfortunate

fact is that not all permissible

combinations and groups are

actually in use. The language

that wedouseis, probably, 50%

redundant (Do u b tle ss t h a t 's

why! have to cut my features by

Pete Gerrard's piece on gravel

in his Write: ADVENTURE col-

umn in the same issue) without

Let's start at the hotte r and

work up: I think that would be

inte re s ting. A b o u t 1 0 0 0

wordsatatimeisthemostac-

e pta ble , w i t h e x a m pl e s

invoking those 'words' that we

do use.

The awesome fact of redun-

dancy in the language is fre-

quently brought home to me by

the difﬁculty that Patricia, who

works hard as the co-ordinator

of thecharity of which I amchair-

man (since she kindly offers to

type correspondence for me)

has in matching myvocabulary

with her commercial shorthand.

Thetroublewith allcurrent shor-

thand s y s t e m s i s t h a t

allophones (Co u ld t h a t b e

h o mo p h o n e s? E d . ) a r e

represented bysimilar symbols

even if their meanings are dif-

ferent. Hence myoccasional at-

tempts to do this kind of thing

unaided.

The p ro o f reading o n D U

seems to have been undertaken

by just such a routine. I refer to

the somewhat garbled printer

dump on page 3 o f the Ju ly

issue. The listing asprintedwas

confusing to say the least. The

omission of so me characters

and the apparentsubstitution of

others mde it difﬁcult to read.

Could it be reprinted at some

time?

Would you likesomething on

the use of Dragon Basic as a

structured language? The ma-

jority of listings I haveseen in DU

seem to violate every principle

dinned into me when I had to

learn h o w to cope with co m-

puters. promise youthat I would

try to express anything that I

wrote in a simple version of the

language.

Eddie Wren, 20Clarence Place,

Gravesend Kent DAl2 1 LID

moned this month:

The ﬁ r s t r u l e o f s o u n d

technical writing, as taught be

every authority, i s 'k e e p i t

simple, concise and direct'.

Tech journalism (as opposed

to report writing) differs only

in tha t th e a c tiv e te ns e is

preferable t o t h e pa s s iv e

tense. (" The computer was

plugged in and booted" —by

whom, m a y I a s k ? S a y " I

plugged in the computer, and

boote d H . " ) . A v o i d c o n -

vu Ivulacirc um loc ulatif ica-

tion a n d othe r words ov e r

three syllables. Above all, do

not try too ha rd to force a

'writing s ty le '. Editors c a n

always c ros s o u t a ny thing

they don't like. That is what

they are there for.

They are also there to retype

programming tips for the let-

ters page, as such tips rarely

arrive in a camerable state.

They check the m. The y get

them typeset. The typeset-

ting machine mangles some

of the characters (yes, it's all

done by computers). If they

are lucky, they get to check

them a ga inif not, theydon't.

I c a n't re-check tha t listing

unless Harvey of Three Trees

writes t o m e a nd te lls m e

what's wrong, as I have lost

the o r i g i n a l . W h i c h i s

doubtless why there are er-

rors in it. You don't read the

Evening Standard , then?

No a mount of e diting e x -

perience preparesoneforthe

horrors lurking in computer

listings, and I include listings

ta k e n s t r a i g h t f r o m t h e

computer.

Theﬁrst persontocome up

with a suitable deﬁnition for

*boner' will get one of those

tapes from the MBB.

Dump help!

WHEN I modiﬁed the screen

dump p r o g r a m f r o m t h e

November 1987 issue (for the

Brother 1009 printer) for disc

use (under SuperDOS E6), I

could not make itwork properly;

the tall sideways dump printed

out a large dark band as well as

thediagram. I wasable with a bit

of experimentingtogetthestan-

dard printoutto work, but not the

sideways o n e . C a n a n yo n e

help? My printer is the Taxan

810S.

D A Craig

2 Milebush Close

North Road

Carrickfergus

BT38 7RX

2 Dragon User November 1988

and any necessary listings.

Thisis a good placetograb

my greeneyeshadeand recy-

cle some tips for all the pro-

spective scribes I have sum

Too old for

Experts!

COULD you please tell me if the

p ro mise d s e c re t c o d e f o r

Rolaballwill be published soon,

as lam getting nowherefastwith

the game!

I a m g la d t o se e that th e

change in ownership of Dragon

User d o e sn 't se e m t o h a ve

altered th e magazine in a n y

way. Please keep up the good

work o f keepling the Dragon

'alive'.

I was sorry to read that Pam

D'Arcy has followed the same

path as manyother Dragon peo-

ple and turned to other work. It

was particularly disappointing

after Pa m produced Formula

One which had to be one of the

best games for the Dragon in a

very long time.

I wo u ld h a ve volunteered

myself fo r the Arcade Arena

spot, but I am too busy in work at

present and also, !think, r m alit-

tle too old!

I am 22 years old and work as

a computer operator. I own a

Dragon 64 (an upgraded 32,

really), plus twin disc drives. I

use t h e A mst ra d DMP 2 0 0 0

printer.' use the Dragon mainly

forgames playing. I have a large

collection of software built up

over 5 years. My interest at pre-

sent is trying to get as much of

my tape-based software to run

on disc as possible. Orange Sof-

trware have been a great help

lately, b u t p u t t i n g m y

Ouickbeam g a me s including

Duplildisk 2 onto disc for me for

a small fee.

I have a problem with Chuckle

Egg + f r o m P a u l B u rg in i t

transfers to disc properly, but

doesn't run. Ca n a n y o f the

readers help me?

Once again, keep upthe good

work and contact me if I can be of

any helpwith my back issues of

Dragon User. Sorry this letter is

solong. Ilwas only going to be a

quick note!

Geoff Thomas

35 Weig Fach Lane

Florestfach

Swansea SA5 SAY

WELL, there you are, another

one who's too busy with his

work! Pam always knew that

the de ma nds o f earning a

crust would pull he r away

from the Dragon again, but it is

ironic to think that it was her

work on Formula One which

became the'CV

newhcommission in another

. t a t

ﬁeld. t

g o

h e r

Talking of this, the Probyn

Brothe rs , w h o d o o u r

crossword, recently wroteto

tell me that, thanks to their

Dragon samples, they gained

a commission to compile a

book of crosswords. Not on

the Dragon, alas. They won't

stop writing for DU, but they

have something new in store

just after Christmas.

Yes. I think i ts about time

onof our regulars leton about

the Rollabaildodge , tho' with

the new version of RB releas-

ed fairly recently, we may be

kept in suspense a bit longer.

Perhaps Paul himself can

propose a solution to y our

hard-boiled Egg.

Professional. I think (hope) I

still ha v e tha t i n m y ﬁ le s

somewhere, a fte r runni ng

someof it on thesepages, and

wemay be ableto draw on that

at some time in the future.

One thi ng o u r historical

record really does lack is any

published documentation on

the history of Eurohard's ef-

forts to relaunch the Dragon.

Various pe opl e ha v e s e nt

news overthe years, but it re-

mains hearsay in the end. Any

veriﬁed ne ws sources from

Spain w o u l d b e m o s t i n -

te re s ti ng.

utilities to their fullest advan-

tage? I am sure someone must

have donethis fortheirown use.

Any takers?

Alsoacryfor help: I havebeen

given a numberof old Dragon

p ro g ra ms, o n e b e i n g

Micro d e a rs Telewriter, dated

1983. U n f o rt u n a t e l y , t h e

manual had gone missing, so

apart from having worked out a

few of the editing commands, I

am completely in the dark as

how louse this word-processor

to its fullest extent. Is anyone

willing to help? If so, I would be

very grateful.

John R Winchurch

21 The Spinney

Brackla

Bridgend

Mid-Glamorgan

THIS is nottheﬁrst request we

have had for more help with

utilities, so I will appeal for-

mally for anyone who feels

they really havetheirbest utili-

ty sorted out to get in touch

with DU if they would like to

write it up.

I will also have a word with

Brian Cadge about Windows.

I know his nose is kept fairly

well to the grindstone by the

demandsof his job,buthewas

grumbling recently about the

lack of letters occasioned by

the (yawn) postal strike so I

may be able to nobble him

while he is waiting for stocks

to build up again.

I put the improvement in

Dragon User programs down

to a ﬁerce editorial selection

policy a n d pul l i ng o u t o f

ﬁngernails. No. but seriously,

DUI readers must realise that

they have accessthrough DU

to pe opl e w ho ha v e be e n

decidated t o exploring the

Dragon's pos s ibilitie s f o r

years, and have reﬁned their

knowledge of the machine.

DU also gave up publishing

pages o f s h o r t progra ms

many years ago, as we (I in-

c l u d e t h e f o r m e r . er

dJohn

Cook ) f e l t t h a t r e a d e r s

weren't getting the mileage

from these that thespacewar-

ranted. The re are plenty of

programming i de a s t o b e

gleaned from the pages of

Dragon User as it is.

This o f course brings us

back t o t h e s u b j e c t o f

mastering the art of external

routines, utilities._ and even

whole packages which turn

up without the instructions.

Any offers of assistance will

be l o o k e d a t w i t h o u r

customary care, and no nail

pulling.

Promise.

Raring to

research

IN answer to your request in

September's editorial, I have a

complete collection of DUsand

of Dra g o n S t o p P re ss a n d

Dragon Wo rld (such a s th e y

were before Dragon folded),

plus a n u mb e r o f Cu th b e rt

Chronicles .1would be happy to

re se a rch a s p e c t s o f t h e

Dragon's past from this source

material if your readers are in-

t e re st e d

Brian Thomas

51 Ashover Road

Old Tupton

Chesterﬁeld

S426HH

MANY th a n k s t o a l l t h e

readers who wrote in to say

that they had stocks of back

Issues. B r i a n h a s e v e n

graspedthe nettleﬁrmly byof-

fering to do some reserach.

Now I will haveto 'get my head

toge the r ' b e tw e e n h a s ty

bouts of typing and think out

exactlywhattosaytofolkwho

are w i l l i n g t o d o s o m e

winkling-out and looking-up;

but it would be nice to look

back over the Dragon's long

and interesting history from

the perspective of 1988 we

have a lot of speculation about

'what i s goi ng o n ' i n th e

postbag, s o i t i s n 't i na p-

propriate to check out 'what

has went on'.

Look c a re ful l y a n d y o u

should ﬁ nd an article about

the history of the Tandy CoCo

in this issue.

On the same tack, thanks

also to the other, unacknow-

ledged p e o p l e w h o s e n t

material a bout the Dra gon

Dump help

again!

YOUR Down in the Dumps arti-

cle in No ve mb e r 1987 ca me

nearto my requirements, but not

near enough. I have a Brother

H R5printer. Can anyonetell me

how to modify the M1009 pro-

gram for use with the HR5? I

presume all I need to alterarethe

EXC codes in EFDC to EFEC.

Your h e l p w o u l d b e a p -

preciated.

Keep u p t h e g o o d wo rk .

Roach

Trenellan

Manaccan

Helston

Cornwall

Use for

utilities

'have been a reader of your ex-

cellent and enjoyable magazine

sincethelatterpartof 1983, and

although it is obvious that the

numberof programssubmitted

has declined, t h e q u a lity o f

those t h a t a re i s mu c h i m-

proved.

Not being very expert in the

programming ﬁeld, especially

ma ch in e c o d e , I ﬁ n d i t

frustrating sometimes to have

what a p p e a rs t o b e a n e x -

cellent utility to hand and not

know how to incorporate it fully

into another program. I have

mnaged t o u se COL-64 in a

Basic pr ogr a m , b u t s u c h

utilities as Windows, for exam-

ple, wh ic h a p p e a re d s o me

time ago, leave meat a loss. Are

there m o r e e xp e rt a ma t e u r

programmers o u t th e re wh o

can sh o w h o w t o u se su ch

November 1988 Dragon User 3

News desk

If you have any new products for the Dragon — software or hardware —

please write to The Newsdesk at 49 Alexandra Road, Hounslow. M 'dot( TW3 4HP

Kouga gets the ball

rolling again

Kouga Software is to release a

new game, called Ball Dozer,

which, according to John Foster

of Kouga, " Ha s ma n y o f the

fe a tu re s o f t h e c o i n - o p

Arkanoid, with bonuses ﬂoating

down t h e scre e n , in clu d in g

lasers a n d a n extra-fast bat,

among o t h e rs" . T h e g a me

features 3 0 scre e n " f u l l o f

deviously placed bricksto knock

away", andabonusgameafter

screen 30,

Ball Do ze r wa s writte n i n

machine code by Stewart Or-

chard, Kouga are looking fo r

further authors, and are offer-

ing a ro u n d 5 0 % ro y a l ites.

Ora n g e S o f t w a re w i l l b e

marketing d i s c ve rsio n s o f

Kouga's g a me s a t the sa me

price as the cassette versions,

and will be representing Kouga

at theColour Computer Show in

December.

"I have at last subscribed to

Dragon Useradds Foster. "I can

afford it now because of the way

sales of Mandragorehave been

going."

Perhaps one day Kouga will

be so big that they can afford to

plough a few bob back into the

press intheformotadvertising.

New keyboards

make contact

Siegfrieds Sch ra u b e n zie h e r

GbR S S Z , H a r d w a r e -

Erweiterungen fur Ihren Dragon

have been in touch to say that

holidays a n d o fﬁ ce re mo va l

have prevented them from be-

ing in touch sooner, and that

they are a very small company

producing a d d -o n s f o r t h e

Dragon. Theinterface. mention-

ed on Dragon Use r's August

Newsdesk, wit h a h a rd wa re

clock a n d add-on keyboard,

features 94 keys including 10

function ke ys a n d a n u mb e r

pad.

The interface board comes

with an English manual and soft-

ware for DOS and OS-9. The full

interfacecostsE49.95 including

P&P, and a clock-only version

costs E33.34.

A knowledge of soldering is

needed to install the interfaces

in the Dragon.

The c o mp a n y ' s n e w a d -

d re ss i s S i e g f r i e d s

Schraubenzieher GbR, Ale x-

ander G r o s c h e l , M i t t l e r e

S ch u lsta sse , D - 8 5 2 0

Erlangen, B u n d e rsre p u b lik

Deutschland.

Life on the cheap

SIMON Hargrave of Solve-Soft,

last seen heading for more com-

mercial pastures, has been in

touch to say that his series of

a d ve n tu re g a m e s i s s t i l l

available from Solve-Soft as a

package at E20 the four, a sav-

ing of E5.

The titles involved are Star-

crash, The King's Quest, Th e

Quest for the Meaning of Life,

and The Heir of Tyos.

For purchasers who already

have oneor more of the games,

a concessionary price of E4 per

game is available.

The games are also stocked

by O r a n g e S o f t wa re , b u t

Dragon User's understanding is

that, at the present time. thisof-

ter a p p lie s o n l y t o g a me s

o rd e re d f r o m S o l v e - S o f t

directly.

Solve-Soft, C r a w l e y H i l l

Farm, Ule y, Du rsle y, GU's_

GL11 5BH

Get your ads on

• a n d while we're talking of

advertising, Dragon suppliers,

don't forget that the December

and Christmas issues are com-

ing up, whenthe Dragon world is

looking for Christmas gifts and

presents t o s p e n d t h e i r

Christmas money on. Even the

longest me mo rie s n e e d u p -

dating a n d re min d in g a b o u t

what you haveon your lists. and

special o ffe rs a re especially

tempting around thistime, solet

us know - soon! - if you want

advertising spaceinoneor both

of these feslive issues

Copy dates

Advertisers! Please g e t yo u r

copytousfor setting bytheend

of the third week in the month

PRIOR to the date of publica-

tion. A d . co p y f o r t h e De c-

e mb e r i s s u e s h o u l d b e

with us for setting by the third

we e k i n O c t o b e r . S e l f -

originatedcopy(DTP'd)can be

with us a week later. Any later

than that and you'll have to run

behind the postman and hand

theadsoutyourself. Saveshoe

leather! Se n d u s yo u r co p y.

NDUG's Pa u l Gra d e said:

"Our DTP program is as simple

andascheapaswecanmakeit,

all menu-driven, so that no in-

struction manuals are needed."

Wew hope a review will follow

shortly.

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