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The independent Dragon magazine

Contents

Letters

Expert's Arcade A r en al 6

Maps for Tangiewood 's Castle Schark and

Dwarf Dive, the ﬁrst part of Total Eclipse. and

the last part of Dragon Games round-up.

Contributors and user groups A message

from Buzz Software E p s o n update y e t

more on Fire Force A b o u t Analyzer a n d

many more.

Editorial

SO! A Dragon owner wins Inc entiv e

Software's s ec ond Moon Cresta com-

petition, in the face of massed Spec-

cy a n d Ams tr ad ow ner s as w ell as

fellow Dragoneers. T hat'll t ellem the

News Desk

High Noon

Dragon's s t i l l he r e . W e l l d o n e

Andr ew Hill of Gwent.

I hope to be s eeing some of you (all

of you would be jus t ﬁ ne, but DU has

readers as far away as Aus tralia and

the USA, s o I'll s ettle for 's ome t h is

time) at the London 6809 Show on

the mo r n in g o f Marc h 28th. ac ts of

God per mit t ing. But, lik e any other

nightmar e, I vanish in a puff of smoke

at noon, so c ome early if you want to

nag me about any thing.

Those w h o ar e t o o f a r n o r t h t o

make t h e L o n d o n s h o w s h o u l d

r emember the O s s ett Show on 11th

Apr il. Details of both s hows ins ide.

Thanks to other c ontr ibutor s and

editors , i n c l u d i n g P h i l i p B e e d o f

NDUG, w h o wr ote t o me about las t

month's editor ial.

And w h o e l s e s p o t t e d t h e

deliber ate mis tak e in the Marc h Let-

ters Page? Well, I s u g g e s t y ou g o

back and read it again then. See you

at the Show.

How to submit articles

The quality of t he material we can publis h in

Dragoneer wins king size game P u l s e r

Software list L o n d o n 6909 Show C o m -

pusense change address D i r e c t ma il

dilemma.

Jonathan McGowan presents a high speed

machine code shoot-out fo r two players.

complete w i t h c a c t u s c o v e r a n d

buckboard.

Dragon Soft

Winners and Losers 2 5

Gordon L e e g o e s o ve r solutions t o th e

November co mp e titio n , wh ic h in vo lve d

simulation.

Tangiewood is the best arcade/adventure

game for ages R e a d e r s and writers ﬁring

away with Fire Force_

CoCo/Dragon Basic

Converter

Rudy Duyck describes how to alter Tandy

Colour Computer Basic for the Dragon. with

a machine code program.

Adventure Trail

Hints a n d h e l p a n d a n e xch a n g e o f

addresses on many titles, map for Ring of

Darkness, and an announcement: soon Mr

Gerrard will n o t b e exactly a s we h a ve

always known him. Read on.

Dragon Answers

Competition

Inverting the screen in '64 mode... Incorpor-

ating thetime and date in a database T e x t

compression for quiz game writing C o n -

necting the joystick port to a keypad.

Go round and round a dartboard to make a

set of c ubes , and win Tangiewood. And t he

ﬁnal in st a llme n t o f t h e Re cre a t io n a l

Mathematics Glossary.

Telephone number

(All departments)

437-4343

Managing Editor

PETER WORLOCK

Publishing Director

JENNY IRELAND

Subs c ript ions

UK E14 for 12 issues

Overseas (surface) E20 for 12 issues

Editor

HELEN ARMSTRONG

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

tent depend on the quality of the discoveries that

you c an mak e wit h your Dragon. The Dragon

computer was launched on to the market with a

powerful version of Basic, but wit h very poor

documentation.

Articles whic h 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

possible, b e c omput er print ed on plain whit e

paper and be ac c ompanied by a tape of t he

Program.

We cannot guarantee to return every submit-

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

you want to have your program returned you must

include a stamped addressed envelope.

Production Editor

BARBORA HAJEK

Associate Editor

JOHN COOK

ISSN 0265-177. Telex: 296275

Editorial Secretary

ANNE MARIE O'DWYER

Advertisement Manager

RODNEY WOODLEY

Administration

GERALDINE SMYTH

Marketing Manager

HELEN PERRY

Dragon User. 12113 Utile Newport Street.

London WC2H 7PP

US address: cio Business Press International,

205 East 42nd St, New York, NY 10017

Published by Scot Press Ltd.

1 Sc ot Press 1987

Typesetting and Production by Artext Limited,

London NW1.

Printed by Headley Brothers Ltd. Ashford. Kent

Registered at the Post Ofﬁce as a newspaper.

Dragon and its logo are trademarks of

Eurohard Ltd.

Letters

Beat the

jungle

FOR those of us who own Fire

Force by Ouickbeam, and ﬁnd

that they are getting frustrated

by the fact trial they cannot get

past the 'crack troop' infested

jungle. I have found a way to go

on to the next phase and miss

out the jungle.

1) Ma ke su re that there is

only one joystick plugged in!

2) Once the game has load-

ed. press the ﬁre button so that

the computer shows the select

colour screen. Then press

3) T h i s g e t s i n t o t h e

authorisation c o d e s c re e n .

Then press 'C'.

4) This will give you the pass

code s c r e e n . U s i n g t h e

joystick to move around type

out " IMFTC" with no spaces.

Then g o o n t o t h e ve rtica l

arrow.

5) Th is then catapults you

past the jungle.

Your readers mig h t like to

note that if the Bre a k key is

pressed d u r i n g a n o r m a l

game, before they ru n out of

men, they will be sent back to

the beginning with eight men

but wit h t h e ir o ld sco re t o

recontinue wh e re they left off

last time — and so to build up

their score.

And a note of appreciation. If

it weren't for people like the Ex-

pert, the country would grind to

a halt. We ll, Dra g o n o wn e rs

would, anyway.

Conrad

4 Rawston Down Road

Bland ford

Dorset

DT11 8AG

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

courtesy of Microdeal, to the readeris

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?!

Beware the hunting Dragon!

I read with interest the March

edition o f Dragon User, and

particularly the Editorial.

One s e r i o u s p r o b l e m

within t h e 'a ma te u r' p u b li-

cations as I myself know is a

lack o f articles. Newsletters

such a s Dra g o n Mo n th ly,

Dragon's Tail etc. even even

myself wit h t h e Dra g Ma g

(Prestel: 700110021 q u i c k

plug!) d e p e n d h e a vily o n

readers' articles. etc. It would

appear f ro m y o u r editoria l

that you wish all articles. etc.

to be centred on Dragon User,

Surely these smaller publi-

cations have a place. S u p -

pose DU eventually co me s

Having worked with amateur

publications myself, I under-

stand your concern. It may

come as a surprise to know

that most editors have the

same pr obl e m t o s o m e

degree.

I s ta nd by last month's

editorial, but perhaps I can

make the thinking be hind

my comments clearer here.

Dragon Us e r ha s m i nute

resources c o m p a r e d t o

many c om pute r publ i c a -

tions, but it still has a cir-

culation vastly larger than

any othe r Dragon publica-

tion, a nd is able to retain

the s e rv i c e s o f pr ofe s -

sional w r i te r s b y c o n -

tributing, albeit modestly,

to their efforts to make a liv-

ing. This is to everybody's

beneﬁt: suppliers have the

maximum scope for adver-

tising, a nd users have the

largest body o f feedback

from other readers. And we

have a s te a dy s upply o f

good contributors.

Even so Dragon User fre-

quently ge ts submissions

which it has to turn down

because the same idea has

been covered too ofte n in

the pa s t; I a m also aware

that there is a fund of ideas

comes to an end, then user

groups a n d newsletters will

be all the Dragon has on offer.

On t h e b ri g h t e r s i d e ,

I don't doubt that DU requires

a great extent of articles, but

surely t h e re a r e e n o u g h

Dragon u se rs t o fe e d a n y

publication with articles. The

time has come when we ALL

must p a rticip a te w i t h o u r

beloved micro, helping every

magazine/newsletter to con-

tinue its work k e e p i n g the

Dragon alive!

Simon Jones

37 Cofﬁns Meadow

Harlow

Essex CM19 4EN

and k n o w l e d g e i n t h e

Dragon w o r l d w h i c h i s

often n o t offe re d t o DU,

either because those who

have it have not got the time

to organise and write it up,

or because it has not occur-

red to them that DU might

want t o s e e the s e ide a s

developed.

What I am suggesting is

not that users should stop

contributing t o o t h e r

newsletters, b u t tha t the y

should c ons ide r w he the r

their i d e a s c a n b e

developed f o r D r a g o n

User's re a de rs hip be for e

consigning them in brief to

their own user group, etc. I

don't see this as a threat to

user groups. O n the c on-

trary, t h e m o r e t h a t

separate groups are able to

exchange ide a s o n c o m -

mon g r o u n d , t h e m o r e

ideas will arise, and this will

in turn give rise to further

ideas for readers to c on-

tribute to their own groups

or newsletters.

The more active Dragon

users a r e , t h e m o r e

response they will get from

other users; this is just as

true for newsletters as it is

ware to anyone wh o writes to

us telling us what they would

like to see for the Dragon and

Tandy.

I would a ls o like t o he a r

from a n yb o d y f ro m A me rica

wishing to swap games, infor-

mation, etc. tor the Dragon 32

and Tandy 64 computers.

S. J. Goodwin

Buzz Software

15 St. Stephen Road

Penketh, Nr. Warrington

Cheshire, WA5 2AN

Boost

morale

IN the January 1987 edition of

Dragon Use r the Expert said

'And so the new year dawns,

bringing w i t h i t n e w h o p e

(unless you own a Dragon, in

which ca se yo u 've probably

completely g ive n u p hope)."

This is damaging to the morale

of t h e Dra g o n co mmu n ity. I

certainly h a ve n o t g ive n u p

hope and feel ve ry optimistic

provided d a m a g i n g a n d

mindless suggestions are kept

outof the view of Dragon users.

I would like to see an apology

printed by the Expert.

Anyone w h o r e g u l a r l y

watches B B C 2 's Micro Live

will notice that the Dragon is

always left out of the reports. I

have wrieen to them complain-

ing about this several times but

I have never received a reply.

There mu st b e thousands of

Dragon Users who watch this,

and i t t h e ma jo rity o f t h e m

wrote t o th e B B C a n d co m-

plained about it then I think it

would convince those involved

that th e Dragon is alive and

kicking.

Finally, for the beneﬁt of the

Editor, Mike Ge rra rd a n d a ll

those at Microdeal who can't

read my address, it is below.

Donald Morrison

72 Diriebught Road

Inverness

Scotland IV2 30T

PS I'm having trouble trying to

get speed racer to work proper-

ly. Can anyone help? Also does

anyone h a ve a n y p o ke s f o r

Downland o r the code to ac-

tivate t h e ch e a t fu n ctio n i n

Stone Raider ?

WE asked The Expert for his

comments, and he says that

Buzz

discounts

DUE t o la ck o f support, and

admittedly through o u r o wn

lack of organisation. we have

decided to use the months up

to July 1987 to re-organise. We

will however be attending the

computer s h o w a t O sse t t .

West Yorkshire on l l t h April.

We will b e demonstrating a ll

our software, in clu d in g o u r

new Tandy range. We hope to

improve o u r se rvice s t o th e

Dragon market in the future.

Buzz Software are offering a 10

per cent reduction on our soft-

2 Dragon User April 1987

for Dragon User.

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

Page, Dragon User, 12-13 Little Newport Street, London WC2H 7PP.

damaging and mindless sug-

gestions a r e h i s fa v ourite

kind, a n d w o u l d a ny body

who ha s a ny ple a s e s e nd

them to him at once. He also

said ' I ' m v e r y s o r r y t h e

cheque ha s n't arrived yet'.

Well. i t's a n a pology . W e

think.

We re gre t th a t w e c a n't

print d e t a i l s o f u s e r s *

disputes with suppliers, for

very s ound le ga l reasons.

Where a r e a d e r h a s a

legitimate a n d i ntra c ti bl e

dispute. w e c a n t r y t o

establish where the problem

lies and pass on any relevant

information. However, while

orders can get lost and have

to be chased up, we do think

that chasing an order placed

on 5 th o f January o n a nd

before the 21st of January is

over optimistic. It is general-

ly acceptable t o a l l ow 2 8

days for a mail order delivery

before starting to worry. 3 6

days for ﬁnal delivery is in-

deed a bi t o n th e le ngthy

side, but not unusual when a

company has to deal with a

rush of orders.

It is a very good idea in-

deed t o w ri te t o th e B B C

about Mi c r o Liv e . a n d l e t

them know that the Dragon is

still active. We think that they

of printer. As the program sets

up t h e co d e s in t o va ria b le s

(lines 2 0 0 +), a t le a st it is a

relatively simple task for such

users to substitute appropriate

codes — fo r example, to print

enlarged (as also available on

my FX-80), line 260 could be

replaced w i t h E N $ =

CHRS(14)— shift out, The prin-

ciple of the article was to show

that b y setting u p the codes

once at the beginning of a pro-

gram. it is a simple task to con-

trol a n d c h a n g e typ e fa ce s

during operation by using two

character va ria b le s t h a n b y

writing o u t co p io u s se t s o f

codes each time and as a prin-

ciple, this still holds true.

My apologies to those Ep-

son u se rs unable to u se th e

program a s supplied — and

thank you for extending my ob-

viously limite d knowledge o f

Epson printers!

Pam DArcy

21 Wycombe Lane

Woobum Green

High Wycombe

Bucks HP10 OHD

bankers order, and a copy of

their c o mp ile r w i t h in st ru c-

tions, I can write and send a

version that will compile.

Printer test example;

131 P 2 - .:GOSU B16: I FT=12

THENTIELSEPLAYBS:PRINT

" sp a ce s? " ;:GOSUB1 3 :IFT

,12THEN31ELSEIFT< )78

THENP3=7ELSEP3= 6:PLAY

BS:PRINT" tab:";:X=2:GOSU

B20:IFT=12THEN31ELSE

PLAY B$: P2 =VA L(Z6):IFF12 <.

THENP2=,ELSEIFP2

EN P2 =

,137

A 5 + P2:FORX -1TOO:POK-

1 =A

ES3,X-4-0:GOSUBIA=A P -

3:NEXT:PRINT #J:NEXT:G0-

T031

The above changes allow prin-

ting without spaces between

cells with Analyzer. Th is ma y

be useful when using Analyzer

for presentations where some

continuous t e x t m a y b e

needed.

To use the facility type/to get

COMMANDS, then (P)rint and

choose the start row. You are

now prompted with SPACES?

which is the default so that if

you d o not press N Analyzer

prints w i t h sp a ce s. I f y o u

pressed N, you are prompted

with TAB: which allows you to

print with a tab of zero. which is

the d e f a u l t , t o ﬁ f t e e n .

Therefore to have the text all

the way to the right. enter 15.

In t h e above e xa mp le t h e

line 00 is printed three times.

The ﬁrst line is with spaces as

typed in. Th e second lin e is

without spaces and zero TAB.

The third line is without spaces

and TAB15.

Note that cells COO and GOO

start with a space and to do that

you must type a letter to get into

INPUT a n d th e n b a ckspa ce

and then press the space bar.

Now to clear up a possible

confusion with giving the print-

out a title. To give the printout a

title press/then T and enter the

title.

If you now wish to see the ti-

tle, a g a in p re ss / then T. To

leave t h e t i t l e u n to u ch e d ,

press CL E A R. I f yo u p re ss

ENTER, the title is erased. If

you type something and press

ENTER, then this is the new ti-

tle. The title gets printed when

you choose the (P)rint option.

Lothar Pilz

71 Woodville Road

Mooroolbark, 3138

Victoria,

Australia

Coventry

call

I WOULD like to hear from any

Dragon owners in the Coventry

area. Please send to the ad-

dress below enclosing an SAE

for details.

Chris Vollbracht

110 Alpine Road

Styvechale Grange

Coventry

W. Midlands CV3 6NR

Basic

user

I WOUL D like to know of any

user groups still around, for an

unashamed g a m e r a n d a n

ashamed person who still uses

Basic.

Paul Harrison

Derwent

Woodhouse Road

Brosely

Shropshire

TF12 5HL

will be more receptive to the

Dragon world i f letters are

phrased a s s ugge s ti ons

rather than complaints.

About

Analyzer

WITH re g a rd t o yo u r reader

who vvrote a b o u t t h e p rin t

routine i n A n a l y z e r ( M r ,

Van Wamelin-Dumalin), there

seems to be no problem there

except that he did not realise

that Analyzer prints a sp a ce

between ce lls fo r readability,

he must think it's a word pro-

cessor.

I have written so me altera-

tions to allow printing without

spaces.

To remove these spaces re-

quires a change in th e p ro -

gram. Then you would have to

type the text across the cells

with sp a ce s wh e re desired,

making the screen display look

odd.

Please note that part of line 333

should read:

PLAY"T150 X ; CE G E G B "

where 0 is the letter and not

zero. This will give a proper in-

tro tune. The other error is:

197 FRE A DZS ,FROMZ-1 -M,

FORK:K(X)

The program cannot be com-

piled as written, but if anyone

sends 10 Australian Dollars by

Slipping

belt

I A M having trouble with the

drive belt in my disc drive slipp-

ing D o e s a n y b o d y k n o w

where I can obtain a new belt?

I have also noticed many re-

quests for a listing service. I

can supply listings on either

daisy wh e e l o r d o t ma t rix

printer with only a small charge

to co ve r costs. P le a se write

(with SAE) if you want help.

M. Burridge

43 Midlord Road

Combe Down

Bath E3A2 5RW

Epson

update

TO me in my apparent ignor-

ance an Epson is an Epson is

an Epson — o r was. Recently

my Epson (a n FX-80) b ro ke

down and I was forced to pur-

chase a n o t h e r p rin te r. N o t

being able (or willin g ) to pay

Out for another Epson. I pur-

chased a cheaper one describ-

ed as 'Epson compatible', and

all my printing programs func-

tion identically.

However, a reader has ques-

tioned the compatibility of my

February article and his Epson

printer (a n MX -8 0 Typ e III).

From what I could see from the

photocopies o f a f e w o f th e

pages o f h is Epson ma n u a l

that he sent me, it could well be

that the code that I use to set

the printing modes (27, 33 o r

ESC!) is NOT valid on this type

Tandy

pal

I would like a pen pal who owns

a Tandy to exchange ideas, etc

Shane Harper

17 Carlton Close

Cleethorpes

South Humberside

DN35 OND

April 1987 Dragon User 3

News desk

Index interest

MAG BASE is a menu-driven

database f ro m P u ls e r S o ft-

ware, specially designed for in-

dexing articles and letters. etc.

from magazines. Records can

be saved on tape o r d isc for

future reference, and a single

sided disc could contain 2000

records in a single ﬁle or com-

bination of ﬁles. The program

can a l s o ALTER, DE L E TE ,

SORT in alphabetical order,

VIEW. PRINT and MERGE. A

complete d i s c ﬁ l e c a n b e

VIEWed a s a ch e ck o n t h e

records contained within it.

The L O A D o p t io n a llo ws

loading either of a full ﬁle (if the

memory permits) or a MARKed

block. The latter is useful as it is

possible t o lo a d re co rd s b y

numbers ( e g 1 t o 1 0 0 ),

characters (eg from A to C) or

pattern s e a rc h (u s in g a n y

keyword). For example. is the

keyword 'disc i s entered in a

pattern search, Magbase will

access a n y records with that

word, wit h in se co n d s, a n d

display them on the screen.

The PRINT option caters for

the S e ik o s h a a n d T a n d y

printers at 80 characters a line,

but other printers can be used

by d e ﬁ n in g alternative p rin t

codes. Records can be double

spaced f o r l e s s t h a n 8 0

characters a line or for easier

reading.

Dragon Use r ﬁles

DU contains 800 records of all

letters, a rt icle s a n d list in g s

since Dragon Use r began in

May 1983. Ea ch re co rd co n -

tains information on the sub-

ject area, date, a n d page o f

each item.

The DI f ile cannot be loaded

into the Dragon's memory all at

once, a s it h a s o ve r 5 0 K o f

records. It can be viewed (12 —

DragonDOS) o r lo a d e d i n

marked blocks. Records have

been so rt e d a n d sa ve d i n

alphabetical order, and, in ad-

dition. i t h a s been saved in

small b lo cks (A-C. D-E , F-L ,

etc.) for access to all of a ﬁle.

DU hard copy

The hard co p y consists o f a

photocopy of the printout of the

records fro m Ma y to the pre-

sent_ If the tape or disc are pur-

chased with th e records it is

possible to produce your own

copy by using the PRINT op-

tion. If you purchase the hard

4 Dragon User April 1987

copy you will receive a twelve

page booklet.

Contact Pulser Software at 36

Foxhill, High Crompton, Shaw,

Oldham, Lancs 0 L 2 7 N0 for

details of prices.

Other u tilitie s, mo s t l y d i s c

based, f ro m P u ls e r in clu d e

Discup, £1.99, wh ic h mo ve s

workspace f r o m t h e ﬁ r s t

graphic p a g e f u rt h e r i n t o

memory and moves the page

to location 1536. Machine code

programs can be run with the

DOS attached (64s or upgrad-

ed 32s only); Za p p e r , E5_99,

which ca n explore a n d a lte r

data in me mo ry and on disc.

move a n d co p y se ctio n s o f

memory, copy and repair sec-

tions of a disc and investigate

discs f ro m o t h e r machines.

Some p ri n t e r a n d d is p la y

utilities, a n d a n e xt e n sive

manual, a r e in clu d e d a n d

Copy Ca t w h i c h simp liﬁ e s

disc to disc copying, from dou-

ble to single and vice versa,

and t o p a rtia lly ﬁ lle d d is c s

without overwriting. Pulser will

also re p ro g ra m Dra g o n DOS

eproms with updates for E3.00.

Add 50p post and packing for

each item ordered.

Dragon wins yet

another Moon Cresta

INCENTIVE S o f t wa re 's s e -

cond M o o n Cre s t a a rc a d e

machine has been won b y a

Dragon user. A n d re w Hill o f

Gwent, Wa le s (t h e o rig in a l

Dragon country) was the lucky

winner d ra wn f r o m a b lu e

plastic co mp o n e n t b i n b y

Christina Erskine, who many of

you will recognise. even from

this h a st y snapshot, a s t h e

Editor o f Popular Computing

Weekly

. Andrew scored over 30,000

points and lost all three ships to

discover t h e w o r d s P l a y

another game on the screen at

the end. " He phoned u s up,

and h e w a s p le a se d a n d

delighted to have won" said In-

centive's I a n Andrews. " W e

were please wh e n a Dragon

owner won, a s well, because

the second Moon Cresta com-

petition was open to Amstrad,

ABC and Dragon owners so,

although o n l y p e o p le w h o

scored over 30,000 points were

eligible, there was a lot of com-

petition ." Moon Cresta was one

of Incentive's biggest games of

1986. and is still selling well —

although th e y a re producing

no new Dragon software, the

Dragon Mo o n Cresta i s st ill

available.

Congratulations fro m all a t

Dragon Userto Andrew. But tell

us, just where is he going to put

a full sized arcade game? We

considered t h e lo o , b u t s o -

meone pointed o u t th a t yo u

wouldn't b e able to reach the

controls_ Oh well, back to the

Beano.

Moon Cresta has been much

seen in the land just lately. The

winners of Dragon User's Oc-

tober competition each receiv-

ed a copy of Moon Cresta. All

well and good. except that they

were a ll expecting a co p y of

Boulder Crash. Indeed, some

of them already had copies of

Moon Cre s t a . W h a t w e n t

wrong? W e st ill d o n 't know.

Blaby sent us a box of Boulder

Crashes which never reached

its destination. Can we get any

more B o u ld e r Crashes rig h t

now? We cannot. Not for love

nor money.

We will be putting the situa-

tion right as soon as we can. In

the me a n t ime , i f a n yb o d y

wants t o swo p th e ir co p y o f

Boulder Cra sh f o r a Mo o n

Cresta or even a Frankle, drop

us a line.

6809

show

The n e xt 6809 sh o w a t t h e

Royal Ho rticu ltu ra l Ha lls i n

London on 28th March already

has C o mp u s e n s e , C o m -

putape. Harris Software, John

Penn D i s c o u n t S o f t wa re ,

Microdeal, O c c u lt Software,

Peaksoft, Pamcomms, Quick-

beam Software. Zo n e 4 , th e

OS-9 U s e r Gro u p , Na tio n a l

Dragon U s e r G r o u p a n d

Dragon Use r itself booked to

take part.

The best thing about miss-

ing th e November show wa s

ﬁnding out that we were miss-

ed — this time there will be a

DU presence, so if you have

any f r i e n d s w h o a r e n ' t

subscribers a n d sh o u ld b e ,

bring them with you.

Information about the show

itself can be had from Jenny

Pope a t JP P R L td ., o n S t .

Austell (0726) 61185.

Compusense

new address

COMPUSENSE have moved

from t h e i r o ld p re mise s i n

Palmers G r e e n t o a n e w

address, They can be reached

at the same box number, P 0

Box 1 6 9 , b u t n o w a t 6 8 a

Willoughby Lane, London N17.

Their new telephone number

will be 01 885 3300.

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

ring the News Desk on 01-437 4343

Money for something

TWO nineteen ye a r o ld twin

brothers f r o m Tro wb rid g e ,

Wilts, h a ve started th e ir own

software publishing business

with a E40 a week grant from

the Manpower Service Co m-

mission's E n t e rp rise A l l o w -

ances Scheme.

Philip a n d A n d re w O live r

started buying computers ﬁve

years ago, and quickly hit on

the id e a o f t ryin g t o ma k e

money from their hobby. When

they left school in 1986 th e y

already had a fund of program-

ming experience, and started

to d e ve lo p t h e ir g a me s i n

earnest T h e i r ﬁ r s t g a me ,

Super Ro b in Ho o d , e a rn e d

them enough to join the ESA,

for which they needed E1000 to

invest in their business. Super

Robin Hood has now sold over

11.000 copies and th e ir next

game, G h o s t H u n t e rs i s

already selling well.

Anyone w h o h a s b e e n

unemployed f o r m o r e t h a n

eight weeks, wh o ca n prove

that they have a new business

idea and access to £1000, can

apply to join the EAS at their

local Jobcentre. T h e a llo w-

ance pays E40 a week for one

year, a s long as the business

continues, t o h e l p n e w

business ventures of get off the

ground.

Unfortunately, n o b o d y h a s

yet o p te d t o co n ve rt t h e se

games for the Dragon.

Reader notice

WE publish readers' addres-

ses o n o u r le t t e rs p a g e s,

unless requested otherwise, to

allow u se rs t o contact e a ch

other d ire c t ly . T h e s e a d -

dresses are sometimes added

to the mailing lists of Dragon

suppliers. While this can be to

the advantage of all concern-

ed, the commercial use of ad-

dresses ta ke n f ro m Dra g o n

User d o e s n o t i m p l y t h a t

Dragon User has any connec-

tion with the businesses con-

cerned. a n d n o rma l ca u tio n

should b e excercised wh e n

dealing w i t h a n y u n fa milia r

company f ro m wh o m d ire ct

mail is received.

Horse help

CAN we have a volunteer to

review Predictor, a p ro g ra m

which claims to help you work

out how to win on the horses? A

hardened gambler, preferably.

No, we won't reimburse your

losses. Ou r regular reviewers

say it s enough o f a g a mb le

waiting for their cheques every

month. Ed.

Missing

persons

Please would contributors D.

King a n d R. Andrews get in

touch.

The editor would also like to

hear from the gentleman who

contacted h e r about sh a re d

use o f a noticeboard before

Christmas.

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