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The independent Dragon magazine

November 1987

Contents

Letters

Winners and losers 2 0

Gordon Lee looks at so me leading ques-

tions about zeros.

Stylo graph and Teiewriterdefended O S - 9

user group address t i p s on winning

ancient game rediscovered.

Editorial

Dragon answers

Swapping control structures o v e r e n -

thusiastic write protect t o k e n i s e d Basic

what modem? u s i n g b/w monitors.

News

Cut price OS-9 offer from H.C. Andersen

6809 Show in London in December N e w

games from Staiship s h o w in Cardiff in

November g a m e s on disc from Preston

• Micro visio n quits , A r c cuts prices.

Write: ADVENTURE

Adventure trail

2 2

CALL STROMBRIGNER, SACK PROOF-

READER b u t they're in the pub...

A few hints fo r Syzygy. The Vortex Factor

andMadness and the Minotaur, and part of

the great missing El Dtablero inlay.

Dragon Soft

The Immortal Strain by Broomsoft C a t a -

comb Crisis from Microvision a n d many

others.

Down in the Dumps

More screen dumps.

8 C o mp et i t i o n

Pamcodes

Not daunted by receiving 2,680 three letter

words from a competitor three months ago,

Gordon Lee now looks for six letter words.

By popular demand, Pam D'Arcy begins

a n e w from-the-very-bottom g u i d e t o

machine code for beginners.

The Answer

competition.

Gordon Lee's own solution to the August

Motorbiking

A Dra g o n ve rsio n o f t h e b ike -le a p in g

arcade game, by Richard Boryna, complete

with engine noises. Cle a r the neighbour-

hood!

APPEAL+ APPEAL+ APPEAL-4- APPEAL

In the stru g g le to get SEPTEMBER to its

rightful owners, some people were sent

duplicate c o p i e s . W e n o w h a v e a

shortage in the ofﬁce —so if anyone has

Interrupt sound

Another way of making the Dragon produce

continuous sound! By Gareth Fenton.

a spare SEPTEMBER they can bear to

part with. please invest 13p and send it

back to us at your leisure.

WELL. they didn't lynch me at Roch-

dale. But if they had I would not have

been surprised. To all the readers who

phoned or wrote to us. particularly to

those who were told ﬁrst one date and

then another, thank you f or bearing

with us. Considering that she has been

answering the phone to Dragon users

almost back to back for the last three

weeks, and faces another week of it

while t h e issues craw l through t h e

post, Carol is still speaking to me, so

you must have been nice to her.

Thanks. It's been a very, very long

time since we last missed our print date

(if ever, indeed) and I hope it never ever

happens again.

A small factor like someone leaving

suddenly can end u p affecting thou-

sands of individuals who don't know

what's happening, and wish it wasn't,

not to mention those who think they

know what's happening, and wish it

wasn't.

At 1.14pm o n Thursday 17th Sept-

ember t h e ﬁ rst reader PHO NED U S

BACK TO SAY THAT HIS COPY HAS

ARRIVED! T h a n k y o u a t h o u san d

times, Mr. Hartley. But I know some of

you still hadn't received it by the 23rd.

And the 17th was the publication day for

the OCTOBER edition. No, I hope this

never happens again.

How to s ubmit articles

The qualit y of the 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 c an mak e wit h your Dragon, Th e Dragon

computer was launched on to the market with a

powerful version of Bas ic ; but wit h very poor

documentation.

Articles whic h are submitted to Dragon User

for publication s hould not be more t han 3000

words long. All submissions should be typed.

Please leave wide margins and a double space

between each line. Programs should, whenever

possible. be c omput er printed on plain whit e

paper and be ac c ompanied by a t ape 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,

Telephone number

(All departments)

437-4343

Managing Editor

PETER WOR LOCK

Publishing Director

JENNY IRELAND

Subs c ript ions

UK E14 for 12 issues

Overseas (surface) £20 tor 12 issues

ISSN 0265-177. Telex. 296275

Editor

HELEN ARMSTRONG

Production Editors

DAVID PRIVETT/LINDA SLOMAN

Dragon User, 12/13 Little NeNport Street,

Editorial Secretary

CAROL FRITH

Advertisement Manager

ATHENA PEERMAN

Administration

ANNE MARIE ALLEN

Marketing Manager

HELEN PERRY

London WC2H 7PP

US address: cto Business Press International,

205 East 42nd St, New York, NY 10017

Published by Scot Press L .

Scot 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

Hands off

our OS-9

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

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

Stylograph w i l l n o t s e n d

codes over 128 as it was design-

ed for a 7-bit bus which was the

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

American standard at the time.

courtesy of Microdeal, to the reader/s

who send the most interesting or

Minitext is very slow becasue it

is in Basic, but it is adaptable to

entertaining letters. So send

d iffe re n t c o m p u t e r s a n d

us your hints and your opinions,

printers. Telewriter is possibly

send us your hi-scores and

the mo s t p o we rfu l co mp a ct

suggestions. Send us your

word processor I have seen,

best Dragon stories. What

and though it does not have

d'you think we are,

right justiﬁcation or spelling cor-

mind readers?!

rection a s standard, i t h a s

features n o t found o n ma in

frame packages.

The ' e mb e d d e d f o r m a t

codes' a llo w you to send any

character in the range of 0 to 255

directly to the printer, allowing

use of any character the printer

can produce, o n n e a rly any

printer. Format or typeface can

I greatly enjoy struggling with Gordon Lee's posers. Not only that,

be changed d u rin g printing,

I have found them a great help as an aid to programming.

allowing mixed faces or styles.

When I bought my Dragon I had no knowledge of Basic program-

The embedded codes should

ming. so I had to start from scratch. I did not ﬁnd copying out pro-

sometimes b e followed with

grams from the manual very helpful f o u n d that the 'suck it and see'

spaces t o ma ke t h e m wo rk

— sometimes known as the experimental — method helped me

properly.

most. Things one ﬁnds out for oneself tend to stick in the mind.

In cid e n ta lly, a s ﬁ l e s

Many of you Dragon L/Ser readers have the advantage over me

generated by Telewriter aretext

since I only manage to press one correct key in ten, and I can't spell.

ﬁles, they should not be named

Because of this I have been ofﬁcially certiﬁed the Worlds Worst Pro-

as backup ﬁles, but as updated

grammer! In spite of this. I have won the odd prize. So you one and

ﬁ le s, l e F R E D 1 / T E X ,

all are in with a chance.

FR ED1T E X u n d e r Dra g o n -

For those who would like to have a go, although it is worth having

DOS. On DeltaDOS there are no

a good read of the Dragon manual, I recomment the 'try it and get

bugs, so no problems arise.

it wrong' method.(0therwise known as the 'suck it and ﬁnd its a

II we can be of help to any

Chinese salted prune' method — Ed.) In the manual there is a list

readers we will provided they

ot all the Dragon commands.

send as SAE.

Startwith the PRINT command, because it helps if Dragon gives

A.C.Earnshaw

an output, then play with INPUT, and carry on from there. By ex-

(High security systems)

perimenting one can ﬁnd out what to do, even things not in the

23 Del/ﬁeld Crescent

manuals.

Uxbridge

A ﬁnal point. With Gordon's posers, I always try to solve them by

Middx. U8 8 2ET

several quite different means. If I get two answers that are the same

then they could be right. But, above all. trying different methods

PS Can anyone help us? We

gives considerable insight into programming.

have a Tandy version, but it has

become corrupted and will no

Good hunting!

Ted Newman

longer load.

113 New Haw Road

Addlestone

Surrey

KT15 20A

I HAVE read Three Little Words

in the June 1987 issue of Dragon

User, and I feel quite strongly

about the negative comments

made a b o u t S tylo g ra p h . I t

seems obvious that Mr. Merrick

has not been able to master

rudimentary 05-9.

I will not argue that Stylo can

be enhanced by an BO column

screen display, and of course

two drives are better than one.

But Stylo is in the league of any

PC word processor I have seen.

For the comment on the double

linefeed, he should read David

Rothery's article in the March

1987 issue, and check the DIP

switches on his printer. One of

these w i l l co n t ro l t h e l i n e

feed/carriage re t u rn mo d e ,

Reverse the switch and all will

be well You will have to reset the

switch f o r listings in Dragon

mode. but it is not necessary to

ditch your current printer!

The vo lu me o f me mo ry is

governed by the user. To obtain

15K on a level one system, use

a parameter value on the Stylo

calling statement, eg Stylo letter

E18K, which should give you 501

6 pages to wo rk with. If your

masterpiece is longer, you can

unload what you have written to

disc, and carry on writing, and

thewhole document will remain

under the same ﬁlename. The

limit to the size of your docu-

ment is effectively the size of

your formatted disc.

The Spell and Ma il me rg e

programs a r e mo s t p ro f e s-

sional. The standard dictionary

contains 40.000 words, and you

can add as many as you like.

Mail merge gives the ability to

print multiple copies and make

text substitutions while printing.

If you run a small business,

OS-9 is most certainly suited. A

bit of upgrade to your Dragon

64, like a second disc drive, pro-

per monitor etc. is worth the in-

vestment. There are packages

like Cash and VAT and Stock

Control,

My wife wh o is a creative

writer and not computerate was

horriﬁed when I told herthe time

had come to change word pro-

cessors. With utilities provided

by the OS-9 User Group I copies

Words of wisdom

for the wise

Looks like Ted wins again?

quent phone calls from home

demanding how, and why and

where, a n d t h a t I r e t u r n

Telewriter to her. Th e second

week was a dramatic change.

My wife wascreating new works

with vigour, and checking the

old one with the Spell program.

The m o r a l i s ' a l i t t l e

perseverance will re a p great

rewards'.

N.C.Grayson

56 Hawthorn Crescent

Cosham

Portsmouth

Hants P06 2TP

Stylo

style

I HAVE read Three Little Words

in theJune issueand I think Mr.

Me rrick h a s n o t re a d t h e

manuals carefully. All of the pro-

grams can be used successfully

if understood. They have vast

differences o f operation, and

since they have to work with a

selection of printers, need time

to b e u s e d t o t h e i r b e s t

advantage.

Not so

Mfree

Roger Merrick's article on word

processors ma d e so me valid

points, but I feel that he was less

than f a i r t o O S - 9 a n d

Stylograph .

OS-9 is complex and can be

fru stra tin g , b u t S t y l o i s

automatic in its use of the OS-9

ﬁling syste m, a n d yo u need

know o n ly a little to use it, A

small b u sin e ss wo u ld surely

ﬁnd OS-9 with its utilities a god-

send. Also, the idea of putting

OS-9 in ROM would remove one

all her original works onto OS-9

formatted diskettes.

The ﬁ rst we e k wa s almost

unbearable for us both, with fre-

2 Dragon User November 1987

of the glories of OS-9 —the fact

that the number of commands

available is only limited by the

size of your disc, and that extra

utilities a re re a d ily available

from the public domain through

user groups.

I am puzzled by Mr. Merrick's

use o f MFIREE to ch e ck th e

memory available. If you call this

from Stylo, you are checking

what is left to OS-9, not what is

available to your text. You can

call d if f e re n t a mo u n t s o f

memory for text, using STYLI)

r 15K, f o r example, a n d t h e

more you ask for, the less will

show on MFIREE! Also, OS-9

version 2.0 has a better screen

driver, and is on buff, not green,

which Mr. M e r r i c k p re fe rs.

However, u s i n g t h e C o m -

pusense Dra g o n P lu s b o a rd

gives a marvellous 80 column

display and an almost instan-

taneous ramdisc on which your

commands may be put. I would

argue that even allowing for the

hundred pounds or so for the

add-on, yo u h a ve a syste m

wh ich w o u l d c o m p e t e

favourable with much more ex-

pensive machines. Stylo can

made Telewriter seem like a toy

by comparison, useful as it is.

Telewriter on disc does right

justify. Just pressJ in the format

menu. and K to remove it. The

problem with Telewriter is that it

is all too easy to lose text — try

printing Out before saving, and

with some printer settings you

Author gets

it right

Thank youtor publishing Three

Little Words. A number of points

have occurred to me since sub-

mitting this to you last year.

a) T h e p ro b l em s o f

Stylo graph are overcome by im-

p le me n tin g t h e p a t c h e s

published in a recent issue of

Dragon User.

b)I believe a three and a half

inch disc uses a different stan-

dard and cannot be successful-

ly connected to the Dragon disc

cartridge.

c)Tandy CoCo OS-9 will not

boot on the Dragon because the

device drivers and the disc for-

mat are different.

d)I jo in e d th e OS-9 Use rs

Group a n d have ma d e mo re

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Flex's SPEdit is re a lly S tylo

under another name,

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SK13 9AY

Once again, the OS-9 Users

did not attract me, but I decided

to try it_ I have put in and tested

most of the programs in DU but

this is in my opinion the best. It

is very good with the use of col-

our, and is easy to play. When

playing it you must think quite a

bit. If you have June 1984 and

want a good game, try it.

This is not necessary, but I

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620 to:

620 R1 =INT(SURND

(-TIMER))+1:

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Otherwise the same conﬁgura-

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November 1987 Dragon User 3

News desk

Discs from Preston

R &AJ PRESTON are collating

some popular o ld e r title s on

disc and tape, to be released

shortly.

Ruby Robba, Perilous Pit and

Desperado Dan are together on

one disc. a n d Kung Fu, Th e

Master is o n another. Space

Treck and the game Reversi will

also be available together.

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

ring the News Desk on 01-4374343

London Show

John and Helen Penn of John

Penn Disco u n t Software a re

organising the 6th 6809 Dragon

Show in London on Saturday

5th December.

The show is to be held in the

Great Ha ll o f the Connaught

Rooms f ro m 1 0 a m t o 4 p m,

according to our present infor-

mation, and we'll be bringing

you more information when we

receive i t . T h e Co n n a u g h t

Rooms are altogether a warmer

and mo re hospitable ve n u e

than the Horticultural Halls, and

the Penns are organising guest

demonstrators as well as trade

stands.

This is a good opportunity

for everyone who lives within

Cassette versions will cost

E2.99. and disc versions E4.99_

For mo re information contact

R & A J Preston, K in g s Ha ll

Court_ St. Bridges Major. Mid.

Glamorgan C F 3 2 OSE, t e l.

(0656)880965. Even as I w rite.

Preston's a r e re p re se n t in g

Dragon users at the PCW SHow

in London.

NDUG see double . .

Here's t h e Au g u st issu e o f

Dragon Update. Paul Grade is

beginning to make Editor-on-

the-point-of-cracking n o is e s

(it's the heat, the dust...). I've

noticed that professional editors

only go slightly off their trollies.

Amateur ones go right off their

trollies. You can't get away from

it, you see, except by leaving the

country. Wh ich you can't do,

becausethere's too much work.

The August Update has arti-

cles on Pascal for beginners,

easy machine code. running C

under DragonDOS, a review of

Music Maker, some DeltaDOS

news (with Dave Martin waxing

wroth b e ca u se mo re De lt a

users aren't registering. What,

not speaking to each other?

United we stand, remember.), a

couple of small Tandy hardware

reviews, some good advice for

people thinking of starting their

own ma g a z in e s (a f t e r t h e

demise of Dragon's Tail), and a

review of Ouickbeam's Galactic

Gus w h i c h brings me to

Tim L o m a s ( t h e e d i t o r)

sounding o f f a b o u t p e o p le

sending t h e sa me a rticle t o

Update a n d t o o t h e r p u b li-

cations. Which usually means

Dragon User I only found Out

about Galactic Gus when it was

too la te t o paste somethin g

over it. Now, whereas I entirely

believe i n t h e a u t h o r's i n -

nocence— it's so diff icult to get

things p rin te d th a t it a lwa ys

seems like good sense to run off

four copies and send them to

different publications — I have

to request that anyone else who

feels in n o ce n t , g e t s wis e .

Broad-mindedness is all very

well, but actually people don't

like buying two different mags

and reading the same things in

both of them (the occasional

reprint is acceptable, but that's

all), and if you think about it,

writers are pretty lazy, and if we

all did that you'd have a choice

4 Dragon User November 1987

of eight identical newspapers

every morning. So please don't

dolt. At best you won't get paid.

and at worst you will be very un-

popular, and have even more

difﬁculty getting things printed.

Mike tells me that he even

asked Paul if he minded it being

printed elsewhere. This is what

I mean b y innocence, and in

token o f that I sh a ll o n ly b e

donating halt his fee to Dragon

Update.

So now that Tim and I have

both said it, no-one can say they

we re n 't w a rn e d . N a t i o n a l

Dragon Use r Group. cto Paul

Grade, 6 , Na v a rin o Ro a d ,

Worthing, Sussex.

st rikin g d i s t a n c e o f T h e

Smoke to co me and support

one o f t h e Dra g o n ' s m o s t

loyal s u p p l i e r s o v e r t h e

years. a s well a s ma n y other

Dragon names, and d o a b it

of s h o p p i n g i n t i m e f o r

Christmas. Th e future o f the

6809 Sh o w, a n d in d e e d a l l

Dragon sh o ws, d e p e n d s o n

users turning up to see what's

doing, even if they don't plan

to spend a fortune or buy every

new product on the market. And

its a great way to meet other

Dragoners as well.

You might even get a laugh by

watching th e staff o f Dragon

User re cite th e ballad o f the

September Issue another few

hundred time s, wit h th e me s

and variations.

New Starship

games

STARSHIP Software we re a t

Rochdale. demonstrating a l l

their new software and the old

stuff as well. We have Rola-ball

in the reviews pipeline. Role-ball

is described as '49 screens of

3D magic! Guide the ball over a

hazardous 3D landscape, col-

lecting jigsaw pieces en route.

Beware the cube and the sheer

drops!•

Also o n t h e h o rize n a r e

CAD-6809, with 'lines, boxes.

circles, discs Z O O M com-

mand for pixel perfect pictures,

many t yp e s o f b ru sh e s f o r

freehand mode. A s u se d t o

create all Starship title pages,'

OS-9 offer

from Denmark

HANS Ch ris t ia n A n d e rs e n

Computer Inc. h a ve been in

touch with us with a special of-

fer for the months of November

and December

As re g u la r readers will b e

aware, H C A a re t h e o fﬁ cia l

licensees f o r O S -9 f o r t h e

Dragon, wh ich enjoys a high

reputation, b u t a correspon-

dingly high price.

For November and Decem-

ber, HCA will be offering OS-9 at

the considerably lower price of

E87.00, as advertised, as well as

ware

1 3 in their regular advertise-

ments.

o You should ﬁnd further details

somewhere i n t h is issu e o f

Dragon User, but if you want to

contact HCA for details, or order,

without f u rt h e r a d o , t h e i r

address is H.C.Andersen Com-

puter Inc., Englandsvej 380,

DK-2770 Kastrup, De n ma rk.

Phone 01 5244 04. Postage for

isoftware i s 5

price, up to E5.

10 o f

o h e

More room

in the Arc

ARC Software are reducing the

price of their adventure game

The Thirteenth Task from E3.00

to E1.99 (including p&p) a s a

special Ch rist ma s d isco u n t

from 1 De ce mb e r 1987 to 31

January 1988.

The Thirteenth Task would be

better known if Arc were in a

position t o a d ve rt ise m o r e

freely. and is well spoken of by

those who have played it. An

adventure for the price of a dis-

count g a me i s d e ﬁ n ite ly a

bargain.

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Mearns Road, Newton Mearns.

Glasgow G77 5LY.

and Win d o s, w i t h ' 1 0 u s e r

deﬁ nable win d o ws , ic o n s ,

u p ll-d o wn m e n u s , a n d a

pointer, a 3 2 x 2 4 display, a

real t i me clo ck, p lu s mu c h

more! Complete with a suite of

d e d ica te d u t ilit ie s . E a s i l y

incorporated in to yo u r Ba sic

programs. Do e s NOT require

64K.

announced f o r th e n e w pro-

•

grams as yet, but Starship's pro-

grams typically retail at around

E3 to E5.

Starship's other titles are the

Destiny series and Composer

iCompanion and El Pea, a collec-

tion of ragtime and jazz tunes

written on Composer Compa-

nion, all published by Microvi-

sion, and Hi-Res Text, available

from John Penn.

Show in

Cardiff

S P O NS O RE D b y D r a g o n

dealers a n d g e n e ra l wh o le -

salers R & A J Preston, th e

Wales a n d We s t Co mp u t e r

Show in November will feature

the Dra g o n a s we ll a s other

computers. The show is to be

held o n 21 No ve mb e r at the

Central Hotel in Ca rd iff from

10am to 4pm, and the entrance

fee is only El.

For further information can

contact R & A J Preston on

Southerndown (0656)880965.

TURBOCHARGE YOUR DRAGON:

With our great value hardware and software:

BASIC 42

Extended BASIC for the Dragon 64

For Dragondos (please state version)

Run your Dragon in 64K mode, wh ile retaining BASIC and

DOS. P r i n t o n h i-re s scre e n , u s i n g st a n d a rd P RI NT

commands, and a screen layout of 24 rows of 42 columns.

Other features include:

Alternative, redeﬁnable character sets, control key for special

characters, repeating keys, a rid commands i n lo we r case.

windows. CATCH command fo r automatic return to window,

inverted video (green on black/black on green), true underlining

and extra PRINT commands and functions.

LIBRARY lists commands and functions. Automatic startup of

BASIC program. TEXT command for software compatibility. Still

23335 bytes free to BASIC. Patches for Dragondos1.0. Can load in

extra UTILITIES from disk:

HELP UTILITY

Extensions to BASIC 42 include change cursor character, scroll

disable, pause listing, BREAK disable, improved TRON (allows

single stepping). Detailed help and error messages

SPOOL UTILITY

Use computer while printing. 3.5K print butler TYPIST program

turns Dragon into typewriter.

ICONS UTILITY

Put icons in your program! Controlled b y cursor o r " mo u se

Commands to deﬁne, clear, load and save icon positions and

windows.

STRUCTUR UTILITY

Another ﬁrst! Structured BASIC on the Dragon! Allows named

procedures, improved loop controls by *

REPEAT E N TWL etc. N D .

WHIL U

DOS UTILITY

Make friends with your DOS! Enter all the main DOS commands.

plus LIST EDIT etc.. and select ﬁles by cursor or -

mo u se " .

HARDWARE

Memory Upgrades

F R O M

Superdos Cartridge

40 Track Drive inc. Cartridge

Superdos controller (chip only)

Peaksoft jo ystick (ideal " mo u se " )

£35.00

£75.00

£180.00

£10.00

E5.50

* NEW

KLIK UTILITY

Point and click operation of entire system by keyboard or "mouse".

with pull-down menus, pointer, dialogue box, control buttons, and

help messages.

Selective directories, ﬁles as icons, repeating DOS commands.

Improved word processor-like line editor with trace and pause

facilities. Set-up module for easy control of screen, windows.

BREAK key, etc. Desktop accessories: disk based spooler, memo

pad. snapsbat, etc. Klik BASIC: write your own windows, icons.

pull-clown menu programs.

DISK SOFTWARE FOR DRAGON 32/64/128

WITH DRAGONDOS/CUMANA DOS 2.0

• • NEW * •

£14.95

Pixie (Mindsoft)

Icon

£19.95

DSKDREAM (Gros v e nor)

d riv

The standard Dragon Editor/Assembler

£9.95

D.R.S (Gros v e nor)

d r

Machine code database program

a w

£8.50

SOURCEMAKER (P a mc omms )

i n

Disassembler for use with DSKDREAM

£9.95

DISK-KIT (P a mc omms )

Sort out your disk problems

FROM E 1 9 . 9 5

PRINTER CONTROL*

A text AND graphics processor

FROM £ 5 . 4 5

DUMPER•

Relocatable screen dump program

COLOR PRINT*

FROM £ 6 . 5 0

PMode 3 screen dump program

• ' NEW • •

CASS £ 7 . 0 0

STARLITE LIGHTPEN S/W•

DISK £ 8 . 0 0

Upgrade includes screen dump

MONITOR/ASSEMBLER

Printer orientated

E15.00

•

•Prices

vary according to printer: please specify,

£14.99

MONEYBOX (Ha r r i s )

Home and small business accounts

£16.99

MAILBOX (Ha r r i s )

Selective mailing list program

£16.99

SHAREBOX (Ha r r i s )

tManage your stocks and shares'

£19.99

SALESBOX (Ha r r i s )

Balance B/F Sales Ledger'

£19.99

BILLSBOX (Ha r r i s )

.Balance B/F Purchase Ledger

£19.99

CASHBOX (Ha r r i s )

Double-entry Nominal Ledger

E19.99

STOCKBOX (Ha r r i s )

Full-featured Stock Control

£16.99

ORDERBOX (Ha r r i s )

Invoicing linked to Sales or Stock

•

MACGOWAN SOFTWARE

HARRIS MICRO SOFTWARE

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

DA bj

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