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The independent Dragon magazine

January 1989

Contents

Atari man bot s Dragon w h e r e ' s t he OS-9

Group? ...CoCo converter ...Primesearch errors

Pete opines A l l a d i n k illuminat ion

Postcript printing

Editorial

WP Applications

Roger Merrick with some suggestions for expan-

ding the range of activities you c an undertake

with a wo r d proc es s or program, inc luding

database, diary and accounting.

Letters

News desk

Dragontire updates V i s s t e x t plus D r a g o n .

DOS bug report J o n e s has Only one Era O c -

tober Update.

The Chain command

Alternative Micro Show

Dragonsword

Ricnard Sutcliffe brings you the fruits of his long

struggle to achieve chains.

Ken G Smit h reports trom the ﬁrst mult i-mic ro

user group show from Birmingham.

Paul Grade wonders where the encouragement

for youth is coming from, now that 'wonder kids'

have gone out of fashion.

Winners and losers

Gordon L e e p i c k s s o me ent rant s t o t h e

November competition

OH, drat, no, sorry, make that damn. What

do I sa y n o w? I th o u g h t about cra wlin g

under my desk and staying there, preten-

ding th a t I n e ve r heard n u fﬁ n g t ill later,

but a s Bob has p ro vid e d a f o rma l state-

ment about Dragon Use r's future (or lack

of it — see page 5). I ca n 't get away with

that.

"Are you going to the Weston Show", I

said t o h i m o n Th u rs d a y , u n e a s i l y

because wo rk wa s p ilin g up and I d id n 't

see getting there.

"I don't really feel like it at the moment",

he said unexpectedly. and then explained

that su b scrip tio n s had dropped sharply,

and he co u ld n 't see h o w we co u ld co n -

tinue beyond the cu rre n t issue.

I don't have time to remove all the 'next

mo n th s' from the columns, but it looks as

though Dra g o n Us e r wilt d ie w i t h t h is

edition.

I am going to miss the old beast. I won't

starve this week. But I don't like thinking

of Dragon resources wasted. So me th in g

may b e wo rke d o u t so th a t o u r ma te ria l

will b e a va ila b le f ro m a n o t h e r so u rce .

Support yo u r re ma in in g e d ito rs — Paul

Grade, Simon Jones, Andrew Hill, Donald

Mo rriso n . They are still The Ones Who Do

The Work.

Dragonsoft

Express/OS-9 f rom Compus ens e t h e n e w

Rollaball from Pulser Ma n d r a g o r e from Kouga

Exitext trom R & AJ Preston.

Dragon Wordsearch

Expert's Arcade Arena

Write:ADVENTURE

Adventure Wail

-Competition

New this marlin, the noir apparant to the Dragon

Crossword, Words earc h b y Terry a n d Derek

P robyn

The Expert shells out some more tips and puts

himself On The Spot_

Pete Gerrard gives his advice on the proper con-

duct for role playing games.

Pete Gerrard holds forth on game-swapping, and

presents the solution to The Final Solution

When Gordon Lee talks about cornﬂakes, he

reality means factorials! Ten c opies of Ma n -

dragore from Kouga software to win.

Screening the Dragon

Radio amateur N

how he screened his mac hine against RF in-

terference.

C l e a v e r

e x p l a

Introducing Dynacalc

The ﬁrst in a series of articles byJ B Slinger about

i n s

spreadsheets -i n general and t he widely-used

s t e p

Dynacalc in particular.

b y -

Dragon

monitor

s t e

Not another variety of lizard, but a program for in-

specting and manipulating the Dragon's interior

by Craig Henderson

Classiﬁed ads 27

Graham Smith describes a mod that allows Della

users to use two DOS chips from one cartridge.

Brian Cadge apoiogises for missing this months copy

deadline while he, computer was at the mender's,

Eprom swapping 2 8

Quick on the Draw

Steven Taylor's machine code line drawing utility

for PMODE 4

Telephone number

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Editor

HELEN ARMSTRONG

Address: Dragon Publications, 49 Alexan-

dra Road, Hounslow, Middlesex TW3 4H P,

United Kingdom.

Published by Dragon Publications 1988

C. Dragon Publications 1988

Typeset by Artset Limited, London NW1

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Letters

Where is the

0 5 9 group?

THE Dragon d isc drives and

OS-9 system, which I purchas-

ed in March 1988, contains a

series o f O S -9 u s e r d i s c s

bought by the previous owner.

Having r e a d t h e s e a n d

found them informative and in-

teresting. I have tried since to

join the OS-9 Use r Group, b y

telephone and letter, with o u t

any success. Ma y I, through

your columns, enquire a s to

how one contacts the group,

bearing in mind that I have writ-

ten a n d t e le p h o n e d o n

numerous o c c a s i o n s t h e

group a d d re ss? I a m p a r -

ticularly interested in acquiring

back news discs from number

18 (July 86) onwards as there

seemed to be a suggestions

that an OS-9 tutorial was going

to b e p ro d u ce d a n d t h i s ,

together wit h t h e p ro g ra ms

and information contained on

the discs, would seem to be ex-

cellent value for money as their

subscription is only C.10.

CAN we have news or up to date

information a b o u t t h e O S -9

Users G r o u p . s o m e o n e ,

please?! have had two or three

etters in recent months (which

is two or three more than usual)

from people wh o ca n 't get a

response from the Group. Mar-

tin Vernon was hard to get hold

of in person at the best of times

which is his right and privilege

as a hard-working organiser

but wo n d e r if the address has

changed without ma n y o f u s

realising it?

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

Page, Dragon User, 49 Alexandra Road, Hounslow, M i d d x 1 1

1134HP.

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?!

gram a n d a sk it to COPY o r

REPLICATE a cell it comes p

with O P TI O NS (V . N. 0 ) a n d

whatever I e n te r it lo cks up.

Has anybody else out there got

a te ca tc a n d d o e s th e ir p ro -

gram, d o th e same, o r does

anybody k n o w wh a t i s t h e

cause of the problem?

80B Main Road

Old Duston

Northampton

NN5 6RA

PS Some time ago the OS-9

Group seemed to have disap-

peared. Ho we ve r, t h e y su d -

denly reappeared and I a s a

new member received a disc in

March 1988 and then another

in June 1988. That is the last I

heard from the group. Do you

know anything about them?

YES, I remember the ﬁrst great

disappearance. Perhaps Ma r-

tin intermittently just ﬁnds runn-

ing t h e g ro u p a n d tryin g t o

remain a live a n d we ll a t the

same time a b it too mu ch for

him Refer Pau! Grade's column

this mo n t h (n o t t o me n tio n

Paul's regular editorials in Up-

date for a sidelight on this syn-

drome. I h o p e w e h e a r

something soon.

The Botto revealed

IN t h e No ve mb e r is s u e o f

Dragon User you ask where the

complimentary re fe re n ce t o

the D r a g o n i n a n A t a r i

magazine comes from. You will

ﬁnd the quote on page 67 of the

July 1988 issue of Atari ST User.

The a r t i c l e , e n t i t l e d A

thoroughbred among micros -

referring, alas, to the ST rather

than the Dragon - was written

by Fra n cis Botto (honestly!),

and it wa s after h im that the

t o t t e r' was named. A batter is.

of course, an involuntary and

inadvertent co mp lime n t p a id

by the supporter of one com-

puter t o a c o mp e t it o r' s

product.

In a n o b vio u s a tte mp t t o

Francis Botto w h o does that

remind me of? Well, t h is is a

timely re min d e r t h a t , j u s t

because t h e A t a ri i s larger,

redress the balance, in the Oc-

tober issue of Atari ST User the

same a u th o r disparaged t h e

Dragon in the following words:

"Having a complete backup

system ( t o a h a rd d is c ) i s

perhaps beyond mo st o f us,

but it's worth keeping a compo-

nent or two you know that your

ST has blown in the past (I), so

long as it's nothing more than

an inexpensive chip. For exam-

ple, in the early days. Dragon

computers tended to devour

sound chips, and BBC micros

had a reputation fo r blowing

74LS245 data buffers."

Roger Wells, 27 Sweda Court

Chesham Street, Brighton

BN2 1NG

newer a n d mo re expensive

than o u r Dragon, i t doesn't

mean th a t it has better table

manners,

2 Kibblewhite Crescent

Twyford

Berks RG10 9AX

PS I am enclosing two printer

outputs o f my Turbolaser/PS.

The ﬁrst is the above program

and the second a fancy prin-

ting of the same string.

THANK you. S o to & F o r t h e

missing brackets. refer the rep-

ly a b o u t typ e se ttin g t ra n s -

lators. so me wh e re o n t h i s

page. I wonder if we have them

intact this time...

Coco

converter

LIKE most CoCo owners I have

bemoaned the fact that very lit-

tle software available f o r th e

Dragon will a lso ru n o n t h e

CoCo, so I have decided to do

something about it, Ian willin g

to convert any Basic program

and T R Y t o c o n v e rt a n y

machine c o d e p ro g ra m, s o

that they will run on the CoCo.

Now, as most people know,

the R O M ro u t in e s i n t h e

Dragon's ROM have different

addresses to their equvalents

in the CoCo. With this in mind I

would b e eternally grateful if

some k i n d D ra g o n o w n e r

could d i s a s s e m b l e t h e

Dragon's ROM and send me a

listing. Of course, I a m willing

to p a y t h e p o sta g e a n d a

reasonable fee for this service.

I have had a few recent suc-

cesses in conversions, mo st

natably S t a rsh ip S o ftwa re 's

Composer Companion, a n d

Postscript

WITH re f e re n c e t o B r i a n

Cadge's answer to Adrian Or-

bit on the Postscript language,

I would a lso like to add that

Postscript printers can be con-

nected t o p a ra lle l p o rts. A t

least, mine does!

I h a v e a n A S T T u r-

bo Laser/PS with a Centronics

port facility which can deﬁnite-

ly be connected on the Dragon.

The P o stscrip t p ro g ra m i n -

dicated b y B ria n Ca d g e i n

Dragon A n swe rs i s i n f a c t

2 Dragon User January 1989

wrong. The maketont operator

is preceded by the transforma-

tion matrix in square brackets,

and not the ordinary brackets

as given in the listing. Other-

wise, the Postscript interpreter

will not print the desired result.

Forthermore. the 'o o moveto'

co mma n d w i l l d r i v e t h e

strin g 'Dra g o n Use r o u t o t

the A4 siz paper. The co rre ct

listin g o f t h e Postscript pro-

gram is in fact:

/Helvetica ﬁ ndlont 1

36 0

0 1 4 4

akefont setfont

14 44 moveto

(DragonUser) show

showpage

If anyone in the Dragon world

wants t o k n o w mo re a b o u t

Postscript or laser printers they

can get in touch with me,

Sotos Mandalos

Elite locked

HELP! Help!

Can a n y b o d y h e l p w i t h

Elitecalc. When I use my pro-

Destiny adventures. I n a d d i-

tion I feel it only fair to point out

that there are some machine

code p ro g ra ms I have been

unable to convert, for example.

programs that add commands

to Basic, e g windows, ﬂ a sh ,

write, AG Whittaker's two extra

commands a n d P e te r Wh it -

taker's Graf Text.

All I ask for this service is the

odd acknowledgement, some-

thing to cover the cost of printer

paper, cassettes, postage etc.,

and customers to realise that I

can only do this in my spare

time, so they will have to be pa-

tient a rid n o t expect a f u lly

working and tested program a

week after I have received it.

Please enclose an a sse mb ly

listing wit h a ll machine code

programs. I regret that I cannot

convert disc software.

Paul Marlow

50 Lime Ave.

Bentley

Walsall

W Midlands

WS2 OJF

Primesearch

search party

IT would appear that several

errors h a v e c re p t i n t o m y

Primesearch programs in the

November issu e o f Dra g o n

User.

Line 180 should read: 180

The 330 in line 660 should

Line 710 should read: 710

FLREAD N M S , F R O M

RR•80.FOR 81,A1$

LINE 740 a n d 7 5 0 sh o u ld

each be incremented by 10 to

insert an extra line which reads

740 GOTO 620. I deleted this in

error from the program think-

ing it was superﬂuous, b u t it

was necessary after all.

I apologise f o r a n y b ra in

failure caused by the presence

of these errors but hope you

managed t o s o rt t h e m o u t

yourself. I n p a ssin g , m a y I

stress t h a t n o n -d is c d r i v e

users should not feel dismayed

on seeing the DOS commands

in the listings, as they may be

easily modiﬁed, but at the ex-

pense of being able to test a

much s m a l l e r r a n g e o f

numbers. If any user would like

assistance with any aspect of

Pnmesearch, t h e n se n d a n

SAE to me and I will help you as

best I can.

Paul Weedon

Summerleys, Aiderley

Wotton-under-Edge

Glos. GL12 7QT

And further:

SINCE I wrote my letter to

your letters page about errors

in m y Primesearch listin g in

November 88, it has come to

my notice that there is a further

(printers?) e r r o r / o m i s s i o n .

Hopefully it is not too late to in-

clude the following to the list of

other errors in my letter. I would

be grateful if you would do this

for me. Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

Paul Weedon.

(Editor looks into envelope.

Nothing f a l l s o u t . E d i t o r

checks le tte r again. No th in g

but an expanse of white paper

...)

NEXT letter:

Dear Helen,

I forgot to write what the om-

missions were in my other let-

ter today. Sorry i forgot it in my

haste.

The omission was:

590 WO= x$

My apologies again

Yours sincerely

david weedon (son)

(Thank you for sorting out the

old man, David. A s this is a ll

written i n b e a u t if u l G o t h ic

script, it is a little difﬁcult to be

sure of the exact correction, as

the Goths apparently d id not

have a symbol for = o r ,S. Let us

check the original e s c save

whirr wh irr cle a r click ch u g

chug wh irr read bleep! silence

„too late, i t ' s a lre a d y b e e n

wiped. I don't n o rma lly wip e

things t ill I've checked them,

but that doesn't mean that the

typesetters' tra n sla tio n p r o -

gram wo n ' t lo se so me th in g

without me noticing. I t does

happen, see Harvey Gray's let-

ter elsewhere on this page. o n

the o t h e r hand, I ca n 't se e

anything i n " 5 9 0 1 1 (i)--xS"

which the machine would falter

over a n d there are one or two

points wh ich bear distressing

evidence o f having been. e r

shall we say. misprints. Se n d

me nice narrow listings with no

smudges, Pa u l, a n d I wo n 't

have to retype'em. Deal?)

the reinking service of Alladink

of Eyemouth (see Dragon User

September 1 9 8 8 . T H e

r e o n s e was good, the price

reasonable. O f t w o rib b o n s

reinked so far, one has come

back as good as new, the other

smudged a little initially, b u t

settled down after a few days. I

would have no qualms about

recommending them.

Malcolm Cowen

21/23 Bristol Road

Levelnshulme

Manchester 19

M19 3NU

No indeed, yo u r letter comes

timely after R A Davies' tale of

disaster in his review. The suc-

cess of this operation depends

to some extent on the type of

ribbon, a n d using a wo rn rib -

bon can cause problems which

are o n ly ma d e wo rse b y re -

inking. I wro te o f f a ma n u a l

typewriter like that, once. B e

warned, not worn, B y the way,

you don't know what the OS-9

User Group is up to these days,

do you?

For Pete's

sake, Paul

NO, I haven't forgotten to in -

clude the disc, I shall be sen-

ding the next lot of copy to you

in p le n t y o f t i m e f o r y o u r

January issu e deadline (A c-

tually, it arrived on the ﬁnal copy

date, but as Pete sends his stuff

in on a disc which I can digest

directly, a n d a s it's t wo days

before his birthday, and as I'm

running l a t e a n y wa y , n o

radishes for Pete.) but having

just received and read bits of

the Octo b e r issu e t h e b ra in

was d i v e r t e d a w a y f r o m

penguins and other palatable

puzzles ju st lo n g enough t o

write this letter.

What p ro mp t e d ﬁ n g e r t o

keyboard w a s P a u l Gra d e 's

column. T h e p h ra se " Ata ri,

Amstrad, Commodore etc. are

still selling mediocre products

to willing mu g s" was the one

that did it. I regularly use com-

puters ma n u fa ctu re d b y a l l

three, none of which I would

regard as being mediocre pro-

ducts. Nor do I think that I'm a

willing mug for parting with my

money.

use a n A mst ra d P C W

primarily for word processing,

and it helps some magazines

(in clu d in g t h i s o n e ) c o n -

siderably that I choose to do so.

I bought it for just that purpose,

and at less than E400 all-in-one,

it represents a great bargain.

Apart f ro m magazines. I can

easily maintain a healthy cor-

respondence with friends u p

and down the country, which I

would be less inclined to do it I

didn't have a PCW.

A Commodore 64 lurks near-

by, and although that tends to be

a 'games' machine, I also do

quite a lot of programming on it.

It is now entering its seventh

year, and is still a great com-

puter for its price.

An Atari 1040St belongs to a

friend of mine, and that gets use

by me about once a week for

shared development wo rk on

games. Again, for the price, it is

a marvellous computer. it most

certainly is NOT a mediocre pro-

duct, and I wouldn't like to be in

Paul Grade's shoes were he to

call m y frie n d a willin g mu g

within e a rsh o t. Fe lle d b y a

single glance, most likely.

Then there is th e Dragon,

which I use for playing adven-

tures. All four computers. in their

own way, have a job todoand do

it well. Total cost to me, in real

terms, is around a thousand

pounds spread over two years of

ownership in sunny Wigan. In

other words, about the price of

a packet of twenty cigarettes a

day, or two pints of bitter at our

northern prices.

So please don't turn Dragon

User into a fo ru m fo r one o f

those meaningless debates on

which computer is best. Th e

best computer is the one that

you are making good use of at

the time, and let that be the end

of it.

PS ITwould beagreat helot°

me if you could get any pre-pre-

release adventures. and I could

incorporate everything into one

big co lu mn , cre a tin g a little

adventure fanzine with in th e

conﬁnes of Dragon User.

Pete Gerrard

Sunny Wigan

WELL, I think Pete and friend

would b e e x e mp t e d f r o m

mugdom e n t i r e l y o n t h e

grounds that they are putting

their computers to constructive

use. The mu g is, after all, the

one who is staring at a pile of

hardware thinking, wh y won't

this d o wh a t I want? a g r e e

about the PCW I f I had more

room on my desk I'd have one

here, and just use it for bashing

out instant letters a t the mo -

ment I think of them, No more,

why don't you write us, Helen?

January 1989 Dragon User 3

I ink this

is alright

ITS a bit late to be answering

the query, but yes. I have used

News desk

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New: Intelligent Disc Copier A simple but

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Dragonﬁre still stoking

Designed fo r single drive users, b u t will

save time on multi-drive copies too. Free

copies of Bootstrap (auto boot) and Hi-Tex

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Dragonﬁre will a rra n g e a p o st o fﬁ ce

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Regrettably this column is unlikelyto reach

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Visitext plus, plus

Visitext Pius by Orange Software has been

upgraded with better facilities for adding

and deleting text, and block moves. Copy

can also be laid out in more than one col-

umn per page, in magazine style, with the

wordwrap and justiﬁcation working within

the co lu mn s, Ora n g e Software a re e x-

pected to offer an upgrade service to ex-

isting users.

Orange Software, The Garth , Star Road

Nant-y-Derry, Abergavenny, Gwe n t NP 7

9DR

From Ken G. Smith

Repair man back

Nic Spiers has announced to Dragon User

that, "ﬁnally, after 13 months" he has suc-

ceeded in moving house, and is now back

in business se llin g sp a re p a rts f o r th e

Dragon, and undertaking repairs.

Nic's classiﬁed ad. (page 27) mentions

"transformers, SAMs, MP U s a n d ma n y

other items, repairs and upgrades.

- F o r

price/stock list, send an SAE to Nic Spiers

at 20 Eaton Way. Great Totham. Essex CM9

BEE.

Ethnologist ﬁnds new DOS bag

PHILIP Scott has written to us with a bug

report on a fault in DragonDOS 1.0, Super-

DOS and versions to DOSplus to 4,6, " I

have not seen a previous report o f th is

fault, and Paul Grade has not heard of it."

writes Philip. "Nor have I", says Bob Harris,

Philip b la me s t h e b u g f o r co rru p tin g

calculations and disc directory tracks.

"It h a s been found recently that p ro -

grams p e rfo rmin g intensive d isc output

can corrupt normal calcultions o r cause

SREAD and SWRITE to access the wrong

disc sector. These errors can be both tran-

sient (for example. corrupting output from

PRINT) and permanent and are difﬁcult to

effectively demonstrate or detect.

It is perhaps worth noting that SREAD

and SWRITE usually access track 20 (the

directory track) when the problem occurs.

It is possible to overcome the problem by

adding program statements, but each pro-

gram g e n e ra lly n e e d s a d iffe re n t a p -

proach, a n d t h e effectiveness o f t h e

process can very from run to run.

DOSplus o wn e rs wh o have n o t been

contacted s h o u l d re q u e s t e x c h a n g e

details for replacement by DOSplus 4.7."

Philip G . Scott, 4 Badgerwood Drive,

Frimley, Camberley Surrey GU18 5UF.

Can anybody shed any light on this?

Update to date

OCTOBER's is s u e o f Dra g o n Up d a t e

features a page on Sprite Magic, a feature

on Logo, t wo o r th re e sh o rt programs,

much correspondence arguing for/against

the Dragon and the Atari ST, a review of the

PCW Show (scenes of Bob Preston doing

business a mid the throng), several short

games reviews by Mike Stott, a user note

on DosPlus 4 from Philip Scott, and the

usual couple of pages from Paul, among

other things exhorting us all to suport the

shows so that NDUG can go ahead and run

one next year. This is Update's 50th issue,

but wasn't quite th e celebratory edition

Paul had hoped for. due to that old favourite

the postal strike - cancelled Crosswords

and so forth, An d th e Editor would like

some m o r e a rticle s. Na t io n a l Dra g o n

Users Group, cio Paul Grade, 6 Navarino

Road, Worthing, Sussex.

Radiation maiden

THE young lady in the pinny is

wearing an overall designed to

protect pregnant women fro m

the possibility o f misca rria g e

due to radiation from VDUs.

Although e xp e rt s s t ill d is -

agree on whether RF radiation

from VDUs (or televisions) can

disrupt the growth of embryos

in the ﬁrst weeks of pregnancy,

research ﬁ g u re s indicate that

women working mo re than 20

hours a week at VDUs are more

prone t o misca rria g e t h a n

those doing non-VDU work. A

garment like this blocks up to

VDUs.

/ b The Mic ro s h ie ld o v e ra l l ,

shown here, costs 255 plus VAT

and is available from computer

dealers o r f ro m Me d ia tra d e

marketing, P O B o x 1 5 ,

Emsworth, Hants P010 7Y H.

No connection

SIMON Jones would like it known that his

New Era Publications and Software com-

pany has no connection either with Harry

Whitehouse's erstwhile New Era Interface,

nor with New Era, publishers of science ﬁc-

tion books.

Lee conquers USA

GORDON Lee has had a good response

from readers of Scientiﬁc American to his

Primegrid puzzle, and we hope to publish

an upgraded p u zzle resulting fro m that

correspondence in next month's issue.

4 Dragon User January 1969

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LAST J u n e 1 t y p e d i n t h e nam es a n d

addresses o f n e a r l y 2 4 0 0 s ubs c ribers t o

Dragon Us er. T hi s issue wi l l go out t o jus t

1450 subscribers.

In rec ent months , t h e ﬂ o w o f income

from s ubs c ri pt i ons h a s d w i n d l e d t o a

trickle. I n part ic ular, s inc e t he end o f t he

postal s t ri k e, t h e t ak e-up r a t e o f renewal

invoices has f allen f rom 60-65% t o a m ere

20%.

As a res ul t , t h e money i n t h e bank

account i s draining l i k e bat hwat er. I t has

now reac hed t h e poi nt wh e re w e w i l l n o t

be able t o pay f or a f urt her issue.

In t h e s e circumstances, t h e r e i s n o

possibility - and indeed v ery l i t t l e point -

in at t empt ing t o c a rry on. T heref ore t h i s

issue o f Dragon Us e r w i l l hav e t o b e t h e

last.

Whether Dra g o n P ublic at ions w i l l b e

able t o continue i n any f orm i s a t pres ent

unclear. Should any subscription income be

left af t er c redit ors ' claims hav e been m et ,

I propos e t o dont at e i t t o t h e Nat i onal

Dragon Us ers G r o u p s o t h a t t h e e n d o f

Dragon Us er does not f urt her endanger t he

survival o f t h e D r a g o n i t s e l f . I w o u l d

Cheques1P.O.'s/Further details/dealer enquiries to:

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

strongly u r g e a l l re a d e rs w h o h a v e n o t

already done s o t o subscribe t o NDUG b y

writ ing t o P aul Grade, 6 Nav ari no Road,

Worthing, Sussex.

I'm s ure t hat readers w i l l wis h t o j oi n

me i n e x p r e s s i n g t h a n k s t o H e l e n

Armstrong a n d t h e o t h e r c ont ribut ors f o r

their work ov er t he las t f ew months. I c an

only a d d m y apologies t o t hos e w h o d i d

renew, a n d wh o believ ed, a s I d i d , t h a t

the Dragon community was s t i l l c apable o f

supporting a p r o f e s s i o n a l l y p r o d u c e d

magazine. I a m o n l y s o r r y t h a t t h i s has

not prov ed t o be t he case.

Yours sincerely,

Bob Harri s

I a m i n t e n d i n g t o p a s s o n unpublis hed

contributions t o Dragon Updat e - any body

who h a s s ent m e a n a r t i c l e a n d does n't

want i t s ent on, pleas e drop us a line.

Helen

January 1989 Dragon User 5

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