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October 1988

The independent Dragon magazine

Contents

Letters

2 R ecords or recipes 1 4

Anthony Daniels presents an easy-to-use

cataloguing database, designed for music

byt adaptable to nearly anything.

A Dragon start in life r eloc ating Dream

Lucifer's best l i v e s in Utopia l i n e un-

wrap ...picture appeal H i- s c or e corner.

Editorial

4 N a m e s bespoke

I WAS jus t s itting here think ing what a

nice lot you Dragon lot are. I can't think of

more than three people I never want to

hear from again in all the time I've been

sitting at this desk(s). What is it about the

Dragon that brings out the best in its ops?

A lovable personality? Protectiveness? A

conviction that there is always one more

thing you c an do with it? Cheapness?

Who knows? I s aid that Dragon users

move in a mysterious way, like God. Take it

from me, it beats dealing with IBM.

Thanks to the folk who wrote to say that

they had substantial collections of DU. I'll

expand on what was on my mind in next

month's Letters page. I onc e met s o-

meone whose colleague's dad had work-

ed at Dragon Data. He couldn't remember

the address. Now I wish he could.

The time has come to say again: don't

forget the Show. The Colour Computer

Convention i n Wes ton- s uper - Mar e

(Weston-in-Sea a s i t ' s k now n t o i t s

natives) on SUNDAY 4th December. Sup-

port your show, and it will support you.

I'm glad to hear that nearly all the display

space is booked out. This must be a good

one.

Pete Gerrard is on holiday

How to submit articles

The quality of t he material we can publis h in

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

tent depend on the quality of the discoveries that

you can mak e wit h y our Dragon. The Dragon

computer was launched on to the market with a

powerful version of Basic, but wit h 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

possible, b e c omput er printed on plain whit e

paper and he accompanied by a t ape of the

program.

We cannot guarantee to return every submit-

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

you wantto have your program returned you must

include a stamped addressed envelope.

News desk

Dragonﬁre goes to disc N e w s ball game

from Starship adv entur e from Orange

H C Andersen list N e w Era expands

Gordon Lee in Scientiﬁc American.

HJ Rowles devises a phonetic guide to help

the computer sort and search for unlikely

names.

Expert's Arcade Arena

The Expert's assistant and side-order chef

gets some details up to date.

Dragonsword!

Dragonsoft

Paul Grade says, don't blame it all on the

pirates.

Polar graphics

K. Redhead whiles away the hours conver-

ting mathematical formulae into graphic

patterns.

Edit+ a n d Dynefast fr om Computape,

Lucifer's Kingdom from Orange.

Winners and losers

Classiﬁed ads.

Competition

Gordon Lee delves yet further into the word

of pi, and ﬁnds an ancient tombstone.

Gordon Lee looks at the April and May com-

petition results.

Toolkit for Dragon DOS

D J Gray adapts the DeltaDOS Premier

Microsystems Toolkit for DragonDOS.

The Answer

The solution to the July competition.

Playbaby

Dragon Answers

SeeK error I B M disc drives O S - 9 to

tape D r e a m source code.

Bernice Henessey tr ies t o k eep t h e

weenies occupied in a good cause.

Telephone number

(01) 570 8335

Subscriptions

ISSN 0265-177

UK E14 for 12 issues

Overseas (surface) E20 for 12 issues

Address: Dragon Publications, 49 Alexan-

dra Road, Hounslow, Middlesex TW3 4HP,

United Kingdom.

Published by Dragon Publications 1988

C)Dragon Publications 1988

Typeset by Artset 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.

Editor

HELEN ARMSTRONG

Production Editor

HELEN ARMSTRONG/ARTSET

Administration/Advertising

BOB HARRIS

Publisher

DRAGON PUBLICATIONS

Letters

Cure for

hiccups

JONATHAN Ca rt wrig h t t e lls

me that Brian O'Co n n o r has

written to you with information

about the 'space hiccup (Yes.

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

49 Alexandra Road, Hounslow, Middlesex, TW34HP

See b e l o w ) i n U t o p i a .

Reference was made to it in the

instructions, b u t what it wa s

and what it did was not entirely

clear. Jonathan later explained

it to me exactly, but too late for

the review.

Because of this a small part

of th e re vie w is n o t entirely

true: o b s e r v e t h e 6 t h

paragraph on page 19: 'Should

your fuel fall below zero y o u

will die and be sent back to the

beginning of the game: That's

not quite true_ The game is split

into ﬁ v e stages. O n c e y o u

enter a new stage, you should

hear a small beep. From then

on, if you are killed, you start at

the beginning of the new stage

(if you have any lives left). So

my statement that it is unfair is

not justiﬁed.

I d o apologise fo r a n y in -

convenience. Th e rating and

all other statements still stand.

If yo u ' re lo o kin g f o r s o -

meone to do the Expert for a

month or two, I'm available.

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

courtesy of our supplies, to the reader/s

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?!

Today the Dragon...

I o we a lo t t o t h e Dra g o n

because I knew nothing about

computing before I bought it,

but I have learned how to pro-

gram in Basic and Forth, and

have gained wide experience

of wo rd processors, sp re a d -

sheets, databases etc. which

has h e ld m e in g o o d stead

when computers eventually ar-

rived in my ofﬁce, an advan-

tage which I still hold over my

fellow workers.

I e n clo se re vie ws o f t wo

packages from Compusense,

Edit + and Dynatast. Neither of

these is new but they are still

available and have n o t even

been me n t io n e d b y y o u r

magazine fo r a considerable

time. They may be of interest to

newer readers_

of the game when a life is lost,

but in fact the game 'map' is

split into ﬁve sectors, and if you

reach a new sector and lose a

life, you return to the start o f

that sector, not the start of the

game.

He ma y have been review-

ing a prototype of the game, as

this featu re was not added until

late in t h e g a me 's develop-

ment. We agree that when this

shortcoming d o e s o c c u r i n

games it is very annoying, and

we asked Jonathan Cartwright

to include this feature in Utopia

before it was released, just for

this reason.

Neil O'Connor

Pulser Software

36 Foxhill

High Crompton

Shaw

Oldham

01_2 7NO

Clive a Scott, 62 Berry Meade

Ashstead, Surrey KT21 1SG

these days won't help you far

towards any other machine

worth purchasing, and if you

have bothered t o exploit

your Dragon to the full, even

in an unexpanded version,

you are discarding a lot of

knowledge and experience if

you don't maintain it on the

sidelines.

Listen, I know a guy who

recently paid E150 — I would

put that in gold stars for em-

phasis if I could — El SO tor a

complete s e c o n d h a n d

Greengate so u n d 4- t rack

sampling system, complete

with Apple 2 e , dual d isc

drives and synth keyboard.

OK, the Apple 2e in that form

is a dinosaur, but think of the

power you have there I

would have killed him to get

at it, and so would most of his

colleages. B u t t h ere a r e

bargains like that around it

you keep your eyes open.

Your ex-Dragon, g en t le

reader, could b e someone

else's dream bargain. Think

about that twice and hang

about

One last thing ...Iknow it's

traditionaltoaddress editors

as Sir, but I've been with DU

over two years now, and the

only person who calls me Sir

is m y husband, a n d h e

doesn't get away with it.

We're getting a g o o d

calibre of letter this month.

Donald Morrison

72 Diriebught Road

Inverness

IV2 3QT

I hear a small beep i f I die

now, I get to eat my supper

again. We are up to date with

surrogate Experts, thanks.

but if a vacancy arises be

sure I will contact you ﬁrst,

the no°. Bob is hope seeing

to your other queries. No,

you aren't sacked. Anyone

can make a mistake, as the

Dalek said to the dustbin.

Back to

Square Five

WE would like to thank Donald

Morrison f o r h i s e xce lle n t

review o f o u r a rca d e g a me

Utopia in DU August 1988, but

would like to point out a slight

inaccuracy.

Mr. Mo rriso n says that the

player restarts at the beginning

2 Dragon User October 1988

AHAl So you are the mystery

reviewer. I've been looking

for y o u r covering l et t er

everywhere, and here it is in

my ﬁ le labelled 'Letters'.

Who would have thought it?

I w ill t ry an d ﬁ nd o u t

whether the two programs

are still being supplied b y

Compusense and what the

prices are, but I agree that

they should b e drawn t o

newer users' attention.

I think it is unecessarily

pessimistic to dwell on what-

might-have-been f o r t h e

Dragon, so I won't print that

part of your letter. We've all

been through it in the dark of

the night (and on the letters

page, i n bits and pieces).

Regard what Paul never tires

of sayin g : m a n y u s e r s

'upgrade' to something with

'more Ram' and, unless they

•have bought the machine for

some speciﬁc talent, they

are often none the wiser. At

least you have used your

Dragon to learn about com-

puting.

It's just a passing thought,

and I suppose money has a

lot t o do with it, but why

discard your old computer

when you buy a new one?

OK, if you have spent your

life savings, and you want to

change over a year later o r

if you are really shortof funds

but the sale of a Draaon

HA! They've all gone soft i n

my young day you got sent

back t o t h e beginning o f

Asteroid Storm ev en i f y ou

were on your 93rd screen.

And it wasn't even meant to

have 93 screens.

Dynamic

Dream

REFERENCE P a m D'A rcy's

comments o n r e l o c a t i n g

Dream, I h a v e a n e ld e rly

Dream o n ca sse t t e . T h i s

cassette loads Dream from hex

6C80. It then uses page hex 6B

(eg hex 6800 to 6BFF) for con-

trol ﬁelds. Note that this is the

ﬁrst complete page below hex

6C80.

Page 43 of the booklet that

came with the cassette says

that Dream is written in posi-

tion i n d e p e n d e n t c o d e

throughout, and so can reside

anywhere in the memory map.

It also says that it dynamically

looks f o r t h e ﬁ rst co mp le te

page of Ram below itself and

sets the Direct Page register

(DPR) to point to it. This is con-

sistant w i t h t h e h e x 6 C8 0

loading. In fact, the booklet is

not quite correct. If Dream is

loaded from the start of a page

(eg h e x C0 0 0 o r h e x 6C00)

then Dream skips a complete

page. Th u s for the examples

given it uses page hex 7E (not

7F) and hex 6A (not BB). Note

that p a g e hex 7 F is th e ﬁ rst

page of Ra m under page Co

(which is Rom).

You can see that according to

where Dream is loaded, you can

get anything from one byte to

256 bytes of free space before

the Dream workspace. This is

important if you use Al/dream,

since B u g n e e d s 1 2 8 b yte s

above the Dream space. If you

load Al ldream to start between

byte 1 and byte hex 7F or a page

(eg hex 6001 to hex 607F) then

if you use Bug break points you

might overwrite Dream. Result

chaos! But Dream without Bug

is safe.

Pam is correct in her guess

about why Dream does not work

for Dragon 64K Ram mode_ It

would be trivial to alter Dream to

work for just the 64K mode, but

I don't suppose it's worth the

trouble.

About p a g e s : D r a g o n

machine code when reading or

writing data can either 'see its

paper' as one vast sheet, or as

a book of pages. In this 'direct'

mode the memory is divided in-

to 256 'pages' each containing

256 bytes. B o t h p a g e s a n d

bytes are numbered from 0 to

255 (hex FF). The page that the

Dragon sees depends on the

value (0 to 255) that is loaded in-

to the DPR.

When in direct (page) mode

Dragon n e e d s le ss b yte s o f

code and runs faster, but it can

only a c c e s s 2 5 6 b y t e s .

However, it onlytakes 12 micro-

seconds to change the page.

Dream u s e s Dire ct P a g e

when handling its control ﬁelds.

Ted Newman

113 New Haw Road

Addlestone

Surrey KT15 20A

(alright, it's not, but to keep it in

context) to convert a program to

disc, h o w can someone who

doesn't know anything about

discs even attempt to convert

one for tape operation? I am of

course referring to programs

printed i n t h e s e e rst wh ile

pages.

Some advice for those of you

with Dragon Data joysticks who

have 'broken' them in someway

or other. The top half of the cas-

ing must be prised away from

the bottom half to gain access

(difﬁcult). Also Maplin switch

JBOOA on P444 of the current

catalogue is a good ﬁt for replac-

ing the ﬁre button e v e n if it

does tend to me lt at 25 watt

soldering power!

For those of u s wh o word-

process o n Peter Whittaker's

Wordprocessor, p r e s s i n g

< S HI FT> + o n e o f t h e

left/right arrow keys enables you

to jump through your text from

CR to CR while in the editing

mode. And it is also necessary

to clear the glossary when star-

ting from scratch before enter-

ing any words. I cannot speak

forthe disc version, but suspect

that these hints are correct for

disc u se rs a s we ll. Anyhow,

judging from the number of let-

ters on Peter's word processor

since it was published, perhaps

we oughtto start a P. Whittaker's

Wordprocessor User Group!

To ﬁnish up, how about shell-

ing out rebate coupons instead

of games for the best letter of the

month? So that serious users

can get themselves some more

(serious) utilities?

Gareth Sims

24 Logwell Court

Standens Barn

Northants

NN3 3TN

NOT a totally silly idea, that.

I'll lo o k in to it. Incidentally,

one o f the gre a t unsolved

mysteries in the History of the

Dragon is: what happened to

Peter Whittaker? We lost track

of h i m o u t E l y w a y

somewhere.

Keep up the good work.

R F Roach

Trenellan

Manaccan

Hels ton

Cornwall

TR12 6HY

writing a shoot-em-up program

in Cobol?

JPiatt

468 Winchester Road

Burnham-on-Sea

Somerset

TM 1HY

HAVEN'T y ou heard o f our

new publication Cray Gamer?

Our ﬁ rst issue will feature a

cute shoot-em-up where the

playersimply takes Out Saturn

and Jupiter. Pity only one per-

son can play it!

In heaven

with Lucifer

I have owned a Dragon 32 since

September • 1983. In this time

good and bad (ma in ly good)

games have been produced.

Every so often another game is

hailed as the best game ever.

Well, its now time to move 'the

best game ever' tag held b y

Shocktrooper to it s n e w and

rightful p l a c e o n L u cif e r's

Kingdom.

After re ce n t ly p u rch a sin g

this in cre d ib le g a m e f r o m

Orange Software (they deserve

a me n t io n ) (L ist e n , ma t e ,

they're s o efﬁcient yo u ca n t

miss t h e m. ) I lo a d e d t h e

cassette in to my Dragon 3 2

(the f a mily computer)(that's

what it says on the box. Ho w

come t h e f a mily p o rtra ye d

aren't entangled in a thousand

wires? Y o u sh o u ld s e e t h e

state o f m y b e d ro o m.) O n

loading L u cif e r' s K in g d o m

(which is a stupid n a me f o r

it) y o u a r e p re se n te d wi t h

a scre e n wh ich I c a n o n ly

describe a s XXXX (you ma y

have t o p u t 've ry poor') —

mo u ld y o ra n g e a n d l i l a c

characters. S t ill, y o u c a n ' t

judge a book by its cover.

The game starts automatical-

ly and you ﬁ nd yourself con-

trolling a hovering, ﬂying thing

which ﬁres two missiles when

you press the left joystick but-

ton. The game is in PMODE 4

and is quite honestly the best

game I ' ve played. I t ' s fa st,

smooth, a d d ictive a n d v e ry

frustrating. After hours of play

and aching ﬁre button thumbs

I g o t t o t h e se co n d o f ﬁ ve

regions. On ly another 20-odd

planets t o conquer. I t w a s

because of July's Dragon User

review that I bought the game.

I ﬁnd it reassuring at this time

of the Dragon's life to encounter

b rillia n t s o f t wa re a n d i t ' s

because of this and the continu-

ing quality of Dragon User that

I've decided n o t to trade my

Dragon fo r an Amstrad (spit)

and to re-subscribe for another

year.

All th is praise fro m a ma n

whose full-time occupation is

working with ICI_ and IBM main-

frames. Ha ve yo u e ve r tried

Hi score

corner

I would be very much obliged if

you were to print the following

message in your magazine. It is

about a new Chuckle Egg high-

score

Now, before I give you my hi-

score, I would like to say a few

things to Andreas Verwegen,

who scored an 'unbelievable' hi-

score of 15.094.650! Well. An-

dreas, you have been beaten in-

to a S MA L L se co n d !!! M y

hi-score on Chuckle Egg was

around 52,000! No, wait a sec

was it 160,564,969? Or was it

294,785,289? O r w a s i t

368,102.689? NO! It must have

been 714,732,2001! I lost count

of the level, but according to An-

dreas' score/level ratio, it must

have been about 38,780!!!

Mark Henegan (age 15)

2, Orchard Close

Biggleswade

Beds SG18 ONE

PS If anyone beats my score,

WATCH OUT!

SMELLS ﬁshy to me, this h e

says he's 15, but his spelling's

better than mine and, accor-

ding to my calculations, he

has spent approximately 73

years obsessively pla y ing

Chuckle Egg i s he (a) Dr.

Patrick Moore (b) Professor

Sir Ra ndolph Quirk (c ) Dr.

Isaac Asimov? Answers on a

postcard, please, along with

your current top ﬁve software

titles, to the usual address.

You guessed it, I'm thinking of

reviving the People's Chart -

probably on an irregular basis

(gives the new product more

time to hit the streets). Why

should Chuckle Egg have all

the fun?

Hack and Poke?

ON the subject of (commercial)

programs, ma yb e so me o n e

could h e l p m e w i t h Da v id

Maken's Picture Maker? I can

get the screen dump to work,

but it loses, or rearranges, parts

of a screen, especially when

told to dump a colour screen as

opposed to a black and white

(Pmode4) scre e n . A ls o ca n

anybody hack it and give me a

poke to put it into Pmode4? I've

tried, but only hacking program

B will touch it, and then it Only

loads a sma ll segment which

consists of an On Error Run and

some other incomplete code.

On the splitting of the Dragon

world (Tandy/Dragon, 3 2 /6 4

etc.) what about those of uswho

only u s e d i s c s o r t a p e s?

Wh e re a s i t m a y b e e a s y

M1009 to HR5?

YOUR Down in the Dumps arti-

cle in No ve mb e r 1987 ca me

near to my requirements, but not

near enough. I have a Brother

HR5 printer. Can anyone tell me

how to modify the M1009 pro-

gram fo r use with the HR5? I

presume all I need to alter are

the E X C co d e s in E FDC t o

EFEC. Your help would be ap-

preciated.

itAtitt

October 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, Middlesex, TW3 4HP

New and converted Lee goes American

from Dragonf ire

DRAGONFIRE Services have a

limited numberof The Tape Doc-

tor ca sse t t e s, w h i c h we re

published by Computil, for the

Tandy CoCo 32K 0 NLY The pro-

gram,which helps users recover

bad ﬁles from tape, received a

ﬁve-Dragon review in Dragon

Userwhen itwas released. Pric-

ed E4.00 plus P&P, the tapes

have co lo u r covers a n d a re

available while stocks last only.

New fro m Dragonﬁre is an

adventure called Hole by R E

Hemmings. Your ship is sucked

into the infamous Black Hole.

What happens next is nottold

price 0 .0 0 plus P&P.

New on disc is Printer Prompt

II, Dra g o n ﬁ re ' s ' e le c t ro n ic

typewriter p ro g ra m. compati-

ble w i t h Dra g o n DO S a n d

CumanaDOS 2.0. The price is

E4.00 asforthe tape version. The

program h a s a 64-character

screen display, is menu-driven

and is compatible with Epson

and Epson-type printers.

Dragonﬁre is currently con-

verting many of its programs to

disc, in itia lly fo r DragonDOS

and CumanaDOS. Dragonf ire

would liketo hear from users in-

terested i n co n ve rsio n s t o

DeltaDOS s o th a t th e y ca n

assess demand.

Thecompany is working on a

major addition to its list for the

ColourComputerConvention in

December.

For more information please

send astamped SAEto Dragon-

ﬁre Services, 13 Parry Jones

Close, Blaina, Gwent NP33NH.

Postage is 50p p e r tape UK,

E1.25 overseas.

Gordon L e e ' s co mp e t it io n

page featured (through 'Win -

ners and Losers') in the Ju ly

1988 e d it io n o f S cie n t iﬁ c

American w h e n G o r d o n

issued t o re a d e rs o f t h a t

August journal th e challenge

he issued to us in the July 1988

W81- to construct a square of 6

by 6 d ig its wh ich contained

more than 170 prime numbers,

The Co mp u t e r Re cre a tio n s

column offered some tips for

constructing su ch a square,

and offered to print any solu-

tions which beat Gordon's,

We a wa it t h e outcome. I f

anybody out there cracks it —

tell SA as well a s us, and tell

them wh e re you co me from!

We await the outcome.

Update to date

THE J u l y 1 9 8 8 e d it io n o f

Dragon Update, the Newsletter

of the National Dragon Users

Group, contains a report from

the Ossett Show, reviews o f

Lucifer's Kingdom and Utopia,

a look at the CoCo 3, news, pro-

gramming articles, and two ap-

peals: o n e f o r l o c a l a r e a

members t o ru n t h e NDUG

stall at the Weston super Mare

show in December, a n d th e

H C Anderson list

H C Andersen has published a

new product/price list fo r the

Dragon which is available from

them a t E n g la n d ve j 3 8 0 ,

OK-2770 Kastrup, De n ma rk.

The list is a 16-page A5 booklet

and in clu d e s h a rd wa re a n d

discs, u p g ra d e k it s , s p a re

parts, OS-9 and Flex software,

games and utilities.

HCA a r e t h e E u ro p e a n

licensees f o r O S -9 . P ri c e s

in t h e English-language lis t

are quoted a s f o r e xp o rt in

sterling ( G B P ) e x V A T .

Enquiries a b o u t V A T a n d

customs d u t ie s s h o u ld b e

addressed to FICA.

other f o r somebody t o h e lp

Paul G ra d e g e t a b a c ku p

photocopier from Lincolnshire

to Worthing.

The National Dragon Use r

Group is a user group offering

technical assistance, a forum

for Dragon and Tandy u se rs

and 12 newsletters a year. For

information w r i t e t o P a u l

Grade, 6 Navarino Road, Wor-

thing, Sussex.

Orange across the Sea

Orange Software is releasing

an adventure by Geir Hovland,

North Sea Action.

New Era expands

Simon J o n e s ' s N e w E r a

Publications a re issu in g two

booklet guides to Dragon pro-

ducts a n d su p p lie rs. T h e

This is a pacman-type game

in wh ic h t h e p la ye r se n d s

a d rill down below the North

Sea in search o f o il a n d o il

drums. ' N o t t h e mo s t in te l-

lectually testing game, b u t it

has that "one more try" quality'

says Graham Smith of Orange.

Orange's brochure i s n o w

a nice little A5 booklet. Write

to O r a n g e S o f t wa re , T h e

Garth. S t a rt Ro a d , Na n t -y-

Derry, Avergavenny, G w e n t

NP7 9DP for information.

Dragon U s e r ' s H andbook

'details every consumable cur-

rently available for the Dragon

(and) e v e r y co mp a n y/ u se r

group currently supporting the

Dragon' according t o Jones,

who adds that they believe this

will h e lp in th e ﬁ ght against

piracy b y identifying software

available le g it ima t e ly. T h e

price i s E1.65. T h e Dra g o n

Directory is a bi-monthly u p -

date which 'is aimed at keep-

users in contact with other

users/companies (a n d ) w i l l

4 Dragon User October 1988

detail any new software which

has b e e n re le a se d p rio r t o

publication o f t h e directory

The price is E4.95for a two year

subscription. Ne w Era's p re -

sent subscribers are entitled to

a discount o f approximately

0 New Era has recently taken

over t h e list (undetailed) o f

Unique Software, wh o we re

publishing Dra g o n so ftwa re

in 1984, a n d hope t o revive

other deleted software in the

future.

Enquiries t o N e w E r a

Publications, do Simon Jones,

37 Co llin s Meadow, Ha rlo w,

Essex CM19 4EN

Starship rolls again

THE next release fro m Star-

ship S o ftwa re w i l l b e I m -

possiball, featuring full colour

perspective g ra p h ics, mu s ic

and d ig it ise d sp e e ch . T h e

game i s b e in g ﬁnished a n d

more details will be released

shortly.

Impossiball will be publish-

ed b y P u lse r So ftwa re o n

cassette o r DragonDOS d isc

for the same price. Pulser are

also p la n n in g ' a n e w t e x t

adventure, a n e w s e l f -

deﬁnable database program,

and a computer aided design

program, CAD 6809 (probably

priced at E4.99) in September.

Discounts of around 1 0

many of their older programs

willo o n

/ be available. Enquiries to

Pulser Software, 3 6 Fo xh ill,

High C r o m p t o n , S h a w ,

Oldham 0 L 2 7N0.

JOHN PENN DISCOUNT SOFTWARE

Here are just a few out of our huge range of programs for the Dragon:

GAMES Arcade or arcade/adventure

FORMULA ONE (Pa mcomms) cass Or disc £8.95 Split screen race game for one or two players. Lap timer and race position, plotting for each driver.

Joystick only. "A beautiful piece of programming"

TOTAL ECLIPSE (Fenmar Eclipse) cass £6.50 Real time space adventure. Has 1080 objects, 75% of which are planets. Embark on a voyage of

adventure through lime and space in your quest to solve the mystery of the lost shards. Simple to control with joystick or keyboard options.

S AS (Peaksoft)cass £2.00 Startling hi-res action for the Dragon. Helicopters, gunships, 9 mineﬁelds, armed patrols, enemy bases, wire guided missiles.

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GAMES Adventure

LARKSPUR WALDORF IS TRAPPED (Prestos°It) cass £3.50 Graphic adv. The quest = to escape from a castle where you, the hero, are trapped.

"One of the best budget games I have ever seen"

SUNKEN CITY (Silk) cass £2.00 (REDUCTION) Overcome literally dozens of natural and unnatural hazards as you scour the continents of the world in

your epic search for the legendary Sunken Sity.

HARE RAISER (Haresoft) cass double pack 0, 00 (REDUCTION) Animated graphics and text - two programs in which you search for the Golden

Jewelled Hare. An absorbing puzzle requiring patience and an inquisitive mind, that can be solved by adults and children alike

BARGAIN BASEMENT

£1.50 each : ﬁ v e for £6.00 : t e n for £10.00

adv: TRANSYLVANIAN TOWER, LIONHEART, SUPERSPY, PETTIGREW'S DIARY

arc: LEGGITT, MINED OUT, CITY DEFENCE, OSSIE. DRAGON TREK (also adv), DRAG RUNNER, AMAZING, SURPRISE

SIM etc: GOLF, CHAMPIONS, CHOCOLATE FACTORY, NIGHT FLIGHT DEATH CRUISE

UTILITIES/BUSINESS SOFTWARE

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PICTURE MAKER (Maken) cass £5.00 Allows the design of PMODE 3 graphics using only the 4 cursor keys or optional joystick.

MUSIC MAKER (Maken) cass £5.00 "The deﬁnitive music writing program for the Dragon." Allows you to write your own tunes in four part harmony.

MUSIC MAKER & PICTURE MAKER - double pack £9.00

HI•RESTEXT (Starship) cass £3.00 A hi-res driver compatible with Dragon BASIC, both BASIC and machine code drivable A collection that gives a 64

by 24 display. "Gives your Dragon a fast, business-usable kind of screen."

PERSONAL BANKING SYSTEM (Hilton) cass (2 tapes) 0. 95 A suite of programs that are designed to maintain permanent records of accounting

transactions viewed from a bank account. Can be downloaded to disc.

Send for our price list for details of our many other programs, including education software and 0S9.

HOW TO ORDER - Write to us, or phone with an Access order, stating the programs you would like. Please enclose 50p for P&P on single orders, and

75p for two or more items. Postage to Europe (includes Eire) is £3.00. If possible please give a phone number as well as your name and full address.

We try to despatch orders within 24 hours, but allow up to 21 days for delivery if necessary. All software subject to availability. Cheques/postal orders

made payable to JOHN PENN DISCOUNT SOFTWARE, DEAN FARM COTTAGE. KINGSLEY, BORDON, HANTS 3U35 9NG Tel:04203 5970

FUTURE SHOWS

* We look forward to seeing you at * *

THE ALTERNATIVE MICRO SHOW at the Aston Villa Sports & Leisure Centre on Saturday 12 November, and

THE COLOUR COMPUTER CONVENTION at the Arosta Hotel, Lower Church Rd. Weston Supermare on Sunday 4 December

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MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR DRAGON

With our great value hardware and software:

SOFTWARE FOR DRAGON 64

N E W ! Accessories for KLIK:

DISK SOFTWARE

For Dragondos (please state version)

BASIC 42 Extended Basic

£ 1 4 . 9 5

Pont o n I

using a 42 by 24 layout. rodel triable character sets. windows.

inverted

1 . 4 e s video. underlining, repeal ng ke ys etc St ill 23335

bytesrtree to BASI C

s c

e e n

Extra Utilities for BASIC 42

HELP UTILITY

Change cu rso r character. scro ll d isa b le . p a u se list in g .

BREAK disable. improved I RON, help and error messages

s t

a n

SPOOL UTILITY

d a

Use Computer whieprunting. 3 5 K print butler.

r d

ICONS UTILITY

Put ico n s in your programs! Controlled by cursor or joystick

Commands to deli ne clear, load and save icon positions and

windows.

STRUCTUR UTILITY

Structured B A S I C o n t h e D ra g o n . A l l o w s n a m e d

procedures, improved loop controis with WHILE. WEND.

REPEAT U N T I L elc

DOS UTILITY

Enter all DOS commands, p lu s LIST, ED I T etc by cursor or

loystick.

KLIK UTILITY

Point and click operation of the entire system w it h pull-down

menus, pointer, d ia lo g u e b o x, co n t ro l buttons a n d h e lp

(please send disk for updating;

JOBSAC C ESSOR Y Exe c utable command Ille

CALENDAR ACCESSORY 1988Calendar

CA LC ACCESSORT 4-tuncimncalculaio(

ARTIST ACCESSORY Drawing program

DIARY ACCESSORY 1966 Chary.

FRAM ER ACCESSORY Advanced window control

£2.50

E2•50

For Dragon 32/64 with

Dragondos/Cumana DOS

Pixie (Mindsoft)

I co n

DSKDREAM (Gr osvenor ) C 1 9 . 9 5

dnv

1The standarc Dragon Ed it o r/ Asse m b le r

c l

D.R.S (Gr osvenor )

£ 9 . 9 5

Machine code database On tape. for disk

a w

SOURCEMAKER (Pamcomms) £ 8 . 5 0

Disassembler for use with DSKDREA N

DISK-KIT (Pamcomms) C 9 _ 9 5

Sort out yo u r d isk p ro b le m s e rro rs etc

M O N E Y B O X (Har r i s) £ 1 4 . 9 9

lla m a and sm e ll n o sin e ss a cco u n t s program

£16.99

MAILBOX (Har r i s)

Selective mailing list program

£16.99

SHAREBOX (Har r i s)

Manage your stocks and shares

£19.99

SAL ESBOX (Har r i s)

Ba la n ce brought lo rwa rd Sa le s Ledger

£19.99

BILLS BOX (Har r i s)

Ha once brought forward Purchase Ledger

E19,99

CASHBOX (Har r i s)

Double-entry Nominal Ledger

£19.99

STOCK BOX (Har r i s)

Fun-featured Stock Control program

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E16.99

ORDERBOX (Har r i s)

Invoicing lin ke d to Sa le s o r St o ck

£2.50

95 5

90 5

E7 0 .0 0

E75.00

DUMPER ACCESSORY Epson screen dump

HARDWARE

VIGLEN 40180 t ra ck d rive s, in c Ca rt rid g e :

Sin g le Drive (180•72K)

E 1 8 9 .

Dual Drive(360-1440K)

E 2 8 9 .

Drive s o n ly: syst e m p rice

L E S S

Ad d -o n se co n d d rive wit h -

Sud e rd a s Ca rtridc ekwit h m anual

pa t o d u g

E e rd o s co n t4 lle r 1DOS ch i p o n ly)

. 9

Su p

Bla n k d isks(p a cks of 10):

40 t ra ck d o u b le -sid e d

BO t ra ck d o u b le -sid e d

D isk lib ra ry box (h o ld s 10)

D isk Head cle a n e r d isk

E10 00

E4-95

E5.95

E2.75

E4.75

MACGOWAN SOFTWARE

For Dragon 32164 with Dragondos/Cumana DOS

PRINTER CONTROL

• FR OM

dump

E24.95

E5.95

program

E8.00

El 5.00

A text AN D graphics processor

DUMPER

Versatile r e - lo c a t a b le s c r e e n

COLOR PRINT

STARLITE

• FROM

• FR OM

E6.50

messages. includes selective directories, repeating

commands, im p ro ve d e d it in g . se t u p m o d u le . Desx101)

accessories in clu d e a d isk-b a se d sp o o le r. m e m o p a d .

snapshot. arid lone

SPECIAL OFFER: BASIC 42 + KLIK E24,95

P MODE 3 screen dump program

Lightpen software, with pnnter dump

MONITOR/ASSEMBLER

Printer oriented assembler

• Price s vary with printer p le a se specify

Prices include UK postage Overnight delivery (UK) ADD £5

HARRIS MICRO SOFTWARE

49 Alexandra Road, Hounslow, Middlesex, TW3 4HP T el : (01) 570 8335

OR7a

ChaquesMO.'s/Further details/dealer enquiries to:

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