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Contents

Letters

Winners and losers 1 5

Editorial

ONCE again — don't forget the Ossett

Motorbiking B o o t i n g DragonDOS

Gordon Lee discusses the solutions to the

Show: April 30th, just south of Leeds

Dragon Professionals

December competition.

off the M l, more information from

John Penn Discount Software o n

Crossword

3 Ma k in g tracks

1 6

04203 5970. Easter has made the

Crossword six with tapes to win

Philip G. Scott suggests a way to get more

Show a bit late in booking, so we don't

storage space out of your discs.

have any more deﬁnite information at

News

the Dragon User ofﬁce in time for this

Review: Cumana disc

Ouickbeam quits n e w Pulser product

issue.

drives

Orange Software: new house launches

What we do have is the biggest in-

Comms port Cardiff Airport Mart in Ver- Ken Smith describes his Cumana drives

ﬂux of software reviews for some

non found alive n e w DUDE organiser

and the DOSs which operate with them.

time, so I have turned over all the

Pamcodes

Write: ADVENTURE 1 9

spare half pages and cubby holes to

Pam D'Arcy continues with the sixth part of This month, Pete Gerrard concentrates on

Dragon Soft, which is why you will

her introduction to machine code.

keep coming across it. More all-new

getting it all.

software next month, I hope.

Dragonsoft 8

Adventure trail

2 0

This month's major piece of news

Pyradventure from Dragonﬁre and Orange, Pete Gerrard, Dimli and Strombrigner get

is 'Ouickbeam quits — ofﬁcial.' In

Foote 2 and 3 from Computape and

involved in the Crickiewood Incident

Crazy

fact, Computape will b e handling

Orange, Space Trek and Reversi from R &AJ

Ouickbeam's former list, but there

Preston, Printer Control from MacGowan

Competition

9 1

Picture Maker from John Penn Gordon Lee gets hung up on number series

will be no new software from OB.

Software,

Computape are, a s w e s a id pr e -

Software.

— will they let him take his Mensa test?

viously, moving their establishment

Tandy discs

soon, but if you have any difﬁculty

1 4

10 D ragon Answers 2 4

Eric Hall looks closely at the format of Tandy Declaring arrays in Basic Serial numbers

getting through to the old number —

keep trying. They haven't shifted yet,

discs and how they can be exploited by on the Dragon Merg in g Basic

Dragon users.

they're just very busy.

Show Report

Next m ont h' s b i g n e w s i s

Point your Dragon 1 2

Grahame Smith of Orange Software does

uuummmophgh. (You'll just have to

Nigel Mason describes how to incorporate the participant bit and reports from Cardiff

wait a nd see — love, the Editor's

a mouse-controlled arrow into the Dragon.

Airport_

computer.).

II departments)

-4343

lephone number

Managing Editor

PETER KANE

JENNY IRELAND

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Letters

FLEXible

approach

PLEASE could y ou te ll m e

where I can obtain the FLEX

Advanced P r o g r a m m e r ' s

Guide. Also, could anyone tell

me whether there is a FLEX

users g ro u p , s imila r t o t h e

OS-9 Users' Group.

P D Smith

University Hall

Birchwood

Pony/an

Cardiff

CF2 5YB

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.

rections which allow the pro-

gram to work with DOS 4.0. The

revised p ro g ra m wo rks wit h

both the BOOT command and

the s ta r tu p b o o t r outi ne

available with DOS 4.0.

Insert LDA E$22 after FCC

/OS/ line; change JMP $D4A4

to J MP $D4B7 a n d change

CMPA E19 to CM PA E21.

The ﬁ r s t p a r t o f t h e

assembler so u rce th e re fo re

reads:

ORG 9728

START F C C

LDA !

/ O SE$22

LDX EFNAME

STX 166

JMP $D4B7

FNAME FCC 34,/

MENU BAS/,34,0

When u sin g th e loader p ro -

gram the following lines should

be used instead o f the p u b -

lished ones:

60 DATA 4 E53,86.22,8E.26,0C,

9 PA6,7E, D4, B7

70 DATA 22.4D,45,4E,55,2E,

42,41,53,22,00,4F

80 DATA OF, EC,86,03,97,ED,8E ,

26,00,34,10,9F

90 DATA EE,BD,C1.01,35,10,30,

89.01,00,0C,ED

100 DATA 96,ED,81,15.25,EB,

7E,83,71,39,"

In the main body of the text the

save routine becomes SAVE

"BOOT.BIN",8,H2600.8,H2639.

8,112617 a n d t h e E X E C a d -

dress becomes 841-12617

Note th a t i f t h e ﬁ le n a me

to b e u se d i s lo n g e r t h a n

MENU.BAS th e n t h e CMP A

E21 instruction above and the

SAVE command should be in-

creased appropriately.

Richard Christon

10 St. Oswald's Close

Thirsk, N. Yorks. Y07 1JX

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?!

Let's put our money

where our mouths ar

THE Dragon market is small and game sales are dwindling. Sin

the publisher is in business to make a proﬁt, it makes sense

target the largest section of the market. Th is is necessary

guarantee the recovery of advertising costs, duplication costs f

a few thousand cassettes, and the high initialisation and printi

cost of the inlay cards. If the game rally sells well then there

maybe a healthy proﬁt, and never forget, this is what keeps the

in business,

There is an alternative: if the smaller market is willing to give'

larger proﬁt margin per game then this could offset low sales. Th

smaller market would b e expected to b e a bit mo re c h

because when you pay more you expect the best. Ask yourself:

oosi

the Dragon version of say Manic Miner is better than the Spectru

version (which it was), am I prepared to pay more for it?

In the US there are two newgames which will run happily on t

Dragon. These are Popeye the Sailor Man and Marble Maze,

cellent programs of which I have ﬁrst hand knowledge. You can g

them from Tandy in the States, and by the time you have paid

postage, packing and import duty they cost about E30 each. If th

were produced here without all the eye-catching cards they co

retail at about half that. I suggest you all write to the softwa

houses and tell them you would be prepared to pay ten to ﬁfte

pounds for such a program. Point Out that you do not need fan

inlays, a black and white instruction sheet would do. It would th

be up to us to put our money where our mouths are, We do ne

continued software support but we will not get it if people go broke

trying to supply us.

Ken Smith, 33 Clack Road, Deal. Kent CT14 9ND

THIS is an alternative and in my view accurate point of view to

the oft expressed "if only dealers would sell their wares at

rock bottom prices, everyone would buy them and we would

all be ok". There is a limit to how far prices can be slashed

before the very act of selling them makes a loss.

Obliquely if not directly related to Ken's theme are Dave

Hitchman's comments on our news page this month — see

page 4.

Motorbike

repair

WE found that during typing

Motorbiking b y R i c h a r d

Boryna from the listing in DU

November 1987, that some co-

ordinates f o r th e L INE corn-

mends in lines 390 and 2670

were missin g . Th e se should

read:

390 LINE(167-BM,191)-(167-

BM ,176),PSET:LINE(167-BM,

176)-(167-BM-29,191),PSET:

PAINT(165-BM,190)

2670 L1NE(180,191)-(180,176),

PSE1LINE(180,176)-(209,191),

PSETPAINT(190,190)

To make the program suitable

for Dra g o n DO S , t y p e t h e

following lines:

80 CLS:POKE&FIFF48,0

140 CLEAR300,32652

150 FO R 1=0 TO 113:READ

A$:P0KE32653+ I,VAL("&H"

-1-AUNEXT

155 DATA 1A,10,CC,7F,A3,FD

01,0D,1C,EF,39

156 DATA 1A,10,CC,C7,00,FD,

01,0D,1C,EF,39

300 EXEC32653

2240 I F 1 $ = " Q " T H E N

EXEC32664:END

Lilne 80 clears the disc motor

timer before IRO is disabled.

Line 1 5 5 co n ta in s ma ch in e

code to redirect the IRO inter-

rupt t o t h e S O UND ro u tin e

while line 156 restores the nor-

mal DOS IRO vector when you

type 0 to quit the game.

Should you wish to try this

version u sin g cassette tape,

then line 156 should be edited

to read:

2 Dragon User May 1988

True

Professionals

ON the subject of the Dragon

Professional, readers may be

interested to know that at least

one prototype w a s actually

built. A report on a bench-test

was printed in Personal Com-

puter World. I am sorry that I am

unable t o g i v e a n e x a c t

reference, a s I have lost th e

magazine concerned, b u t I

think it was early in 1984. As

surmised in the March Dragon

156 DATA 1A,10,CC,9D,3D,FD,

01,0D,1C,EF,39

PS — Don't forget the 'repair'

line 2335 from the December

issue — 2335 S-0 :P=0 :X=6 .

Bob and Ian Thomas

5 Evergreen Close

Hempstead

Gillingham

Kent

ME7 3QY

Boot is

patched

Having e n t e r e d J u l i a n

Osbourne's A u t o B o o t p ro -

gram i n th e October Dragon

User, I discovered that it would

not run correctly with Dragon-

DOS 4.0.

I enclose the folloiwng co r

User, the machine was produc-

ed just before Dragon Data Ltd.

was taken over by GEC.

The Professional wa s, i f I

remember correctly, e q u iva -

lent to a Dragon 64, with twin

disk d rive s mounted i n t h e

same box. The general layout

was similar to an Apple 2. The

speciﬁcation w a s somewhat

disappointing f o r a p ro fe s-

sional machine— for example,

the 32-column screen display

was retained.

The re vie we r co mp la in e d

that t h e ma c h in e st o p p e d

working a fte r a n hour, a s it

overheated. T h e conclusion

was t h a t f u rt h e r t e ch n ica l

development was needed, and

that, p e rh a p s, Dra g o n Da t a

had lost too much credibility to

be able to market the machine

successfully.

It se e ms amazine that n o

review appeared i n Dra g o n

User. Does this tell us anything

we don't already know about

Dragon Da ta Ltd ,'s business

sense?

Frank Water/and

56 Roe Lane

Kingsbury

London NW9 98D

WITH re g a rd t o th e 'Profes-

sional', t h e re w e r e in d e e d

'ﬁnished' models up and run-

ning at the last 6809 Show, just

as Dra g o n Da t a co lla p se d .

GEC p ro d u ce d a b u sin e ss

pack at that show with the Pro-

fessional l a b e l l e d D 6 0 0 9 .

Their literature wa s stamped

'Preliminary Product Informa-

tion' and was produced at the

same time as the Touchmaster

pad la b e lle d D6 0 1 1 , a l s o

stamped accordingly.

The Professional wa s d e -

scribed a s o ffe rin g i n o n e

compact unit a powerful com-

puting package u tilisin g t h e

6809 micro p ro ce sso r'. W i t h

GEC Dragon OS-9 software,

the Professional had a wid e

range of problem solving ap-

plications for professional and

small business users.

Features included a n inte-

gral Sony 3.5in d isc d rive o f

500Kbytes unformatted, an in-

tegral mo d e m wit h 1200/75

baud Prestel mode and 600/

600 b a u d machine/machine

maode, 6 4 K ra m, 1 6 K r a m

Basic in te rp re te r, 8 K r a m

modem controller, ﬁve graph-

ics modes: 32 characters x 16

lines screen with nine colours,

64 x 32 with nine colours, 128 x

96 with two sets of four colours,

128 x 192 with two sets of four

colours and 256 x 192 with two

sets of two colours; 8 octave

sound synthesiser with three

independent voices; full travel

keyboard g u a ra n t e e d 2 0

million d e p re ssio n s ( ( T h a t

reminds me. I have to ring my

tax person — Ed.)) and inter-

nal swit ch e d m o d e p o w e r

supply. The Professional could

also b e expanded u p to two

3.5in d is c d rive s a n d co u ld

also be input from two further

5.25in drives.

If anyone knows their where-

abouts, please MBX me!

Roland Hewson

1 Swallow Gardens

Hatﬁeld

Herts.

AL10 BOR

I have unearthed the original

press report on the Profes-

sional from DU July1984 and

quote brieﬂy -

really sees GEC Dragon hit-

P r o j e c t

ting e t big time with an ex-

the

pected re ta il pri c e i n t h e

region of E2,500 to £3000

full production of the system

is expected to go ahead in

July w i t h pre -produc ti on

models already out." b u t

the Editorial o f tha t s a me

issue, probably written very

shortly before the magazine

went t o press. a nnounc e s

that the receivers have been

called in on Dragon Data, by

then already partly owned by

GEC. " I f GE C do take over

Dragon Da ta , i t is thought

that they will concentrate on

the D r a g o n Profe s s iona l"

says the Augus t issue. B y

September, E uroha rd h a d

appreared o n th e horizon,

and by October, production

had mov e d t o Carceres i n

Spain. B y December, G E C

had v i rtua l l y w a s h e d i t s

hands of the Dragon. Various

upgrades were talked about

subsequently, b u t t h e

Dragon Professional ne v e r

saw the light of day.

I have my doubts, but it is

just possible th a t the fa c t

that Dragon User didn't see a

working copy of the Dragon

Professional was deliberate

caution on behalf of DD —

there's an old saying that the

best way to kill a bad product

is to have a good advertising

campaign. Revealing an un-

ﬁnished m a c hi ne t o t h e

minute s c r u t i n y o f t h e

Dragon world would not have

been a good move. Mind you,

having it blow up in front of

the P C W te c hni c a l t e a m

wasn't exactly a P R c oup,

either

Crossword

The sixth Dragon Crossword is with u s in time for

Easter, if only just. Where crossword four is concern-

ed, of course, there's no egg on the face of a Wright

from Dunblane, who doesn't say what he wants, but

wishes me a happy holiday in retrospace (what a nice

way of saying your Dragon's late) and J. Smith of

Twyford who is similarly unspeciﬁc, but he has his

answer right, so a winner he is.

There will b e a couple o f free tapes fro m th e

Editor's Magic Bottomless Box for the ﬁrst correct

entries to reach us each month. You can even trytell-

ing us which tapes you'd like in an ideal world. It all

depends on what we can ﬁnd.

And you don't have to cut up your Dragon User,

either — entries can be written out on a photostat

or a plain piece of paper, a s long as we can read

them.

1. Would he destroy a soapy circle? (6.6)

2. Must be a depressive one who works

underground (5,5)

3. Viking in a frenzy (7)

4. A coward's race perhaps? (7,3)

5. A bell-ringer who got the hump! (9)

6. This was processed using a letter wire (10)

7. You will re q u ire a complete blackout t o g e t

this! (5,7)

8. Duo in danger from atack on their prison! (7,4)

9. Wo rk and hag together, makes a ﬁery bird (6,4)

10. Bigger than a rock-fall (7,5)

11. Old age town caught up in the forest (10)

12, Take a plane after dark (5,6)

13_ Easy if one is confused (3)

by Terry and Derek Prays

All this month's

answers are names of

Dragon software.

When the crossword is

complete, the column

marked with an arrow

will spell out a phrase.

MEIMIII•11111111111

111 • 1111111 M I U M I l l

IIIIMEIMEME1111111

111111 M 111111 M

1111•111MEIMIIMEIMIE

IIIEMME1111111111

1111111 • 111 M M I I I M I

ElE11111111111M

1 1 1 1•1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1E

1 1 1•1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

MEE

May 1988 Dragon User 3

News desk

Orange ﬂowers

A N E W s o f t wa re h o u s e ,

Orange Software, has started

trading fro m Abergavenny in

Wales. T h e i r l a u n c h l i s t ,

suitably p rin t e d o n b r i g h t

orange paper, in clu d e s t h e

following software, so me of it

old, some of it new:

Beanstalker on tape o r disc

for E3.99, along with a tape ver-

sion o n ly o f Beanpatch f o r

£1.00. Disc conversions of ex-

isting B e a n s talker cassettes

cost E1.00 — o rig in a l in la y

cards must be shown.

New g a me s Supernova, a

shooting g a me se t i n d e e p

space, a n d Matchmaker, f o r

younger users, four can play,

for £2.99 each on tape or disc.

A new version of Crazy Foote

for t h e Dra g o n a n d Ta n d y

T RS80 32K.

If you have an, w products for the Dragon — software or hardware —

ring the News Desk on 01.437 4343

Just off the ground

REPORTS from the Cardiff Air-

port Show in February say that,

although less than 100 people

turned up at the door, the show

itself covered its costs comfor-

tably, a n d t h a t a t t e n d in g

retailers w e re we ll sa tisﬁ e d

with their sales there.

Said organiser Helen Penn

"We were running the Show on

a co-operative basis, so that

everybody w h o t o o k p a r t

shared in the gate money. In

fact, I have just mailed off an

extra E15 t o t h o se people.

Overheads w e r e e xt re me ly

low, so that we could take ad-

vantage of the site without hav-

ing to draw a massive crowd."

The remote site and a hitch in

the advertising campaign pro-

bably conspired to keep away a

few people who would other-

wise have attended, but overall

the Show was successful, and

the Penns are now looking for-

ward to the next show at the

much more popular Ossett site

on Saturday 30th April.

The contrast between t h e

Cardiff S h o w a n d t h e sixth

6809 S h o w i n L o n d o n i n

December was pointed u p by

Robbie Preston o f R & A J

Preston: " We so ld plenty o f

games and did OK, but John

and Helen Penn lost a certain

amount of money on the show,

because the overheads there

were extraordinary." Fin d in g

an inexpensive site in central

London h a s s o f a r p ro ve d

fruitless.

This experience must point

in t h e d ire ctio n o f sma lle r,

regional shows for the Dragon

in fu tu re . T h e 1 9 8 7 O sse t t

show w a s a c c l a i me d b y

everyone wh o attended a s a

great success both ﬁnancially

and socially.

The Cardiff show could turn

out to be a valuable pointer to

keeping Dragon shows viable

in a time of falling support for

the Dragon.

New utilities Sprite Designer

(tape or disc)fo r use with Basic

or ma ch in e co d e p ro g ra ms

and Easel (disc only) fo r use

with Ba sic 42 b y Ha rris Soft-

ware are E4.99 each.

New u t i l i t y T e x t S c re e n

Designer for designing loading

screens, E2.99 on tape or disc.

and Orange Boot, a boot

routine fo r ma n y DOSs, d isc

only, E1.99.

They a ls o h a ve a lis t o f

several scheduled and recent

adventure releases. O ra n g e

are looking fo r n e w Dragon/

Tandy software.

For fact sheets, p rice lists

and more information, send an

SAE to Orange Software. The

Garth, S t a r Ro a d , Na n t-Y -

Derry, Abergavenney, Gwe n t

NP7 8HE

Comms port for all

Dude quits

Dave Martin is no longer run-

ning DUDE (the Delta Users

Delta Exchange). T h e n e w

JIM Fuller, G4WPI has design-

ed. tested and built an RS232

port which is both software and

hardware compatible with the

serial p o rt on the Dragon 32

and 64.

Unlike m a n y Dra g o n 3 2

RS232 ports, th e new model

can be used b y co mms soft-

ware written for the Dragon 64,

The port can be accessed via

addresses & H FF04-&H FF07.

The only two conditions affec-

ting program compatibility are

that the software must be able

to run with only 32K of RAM,

and must not use any calls to

routines that are available only

in the Dragon 64 rom.

This upgrade is contained

on a small printed circuit board

which ﬁts inside the Dragon's

case. The link with the outside

world is via a 7-pin DIN socket

on th e left-hand sid e o f th e

case, whose connections are

conﬁgured to march those of

the Dragon 64. Because the

unit is permanently installed,

the expansion port is free for

use by a DOS cartridge.

The upgrade is available for

self-ﬁtting f o r E30, co mp le te

with ﬁtting and programming

instructions. Careful soldering

with a ﬁne iron is all that is re-

quired.

Alternatively, a so ld e rin g

service for E8.50 is available

from Chris Foster at 2 The Row,

Berwick-St-James, Nr. S a lis-

bury, Wilts SP3 4TR Tel. 0722

790530.

These RS232 boards have

already b e e n in s t a lle d i n

Dragon 32s by radio amateurs

wanting t o u se radio-related

serial hardware. The interface

can be used to drive a serial

printer, using a machine code

routine and the ra m hook at

6167. A source listing for this is

included.

For mo re information o r a

leaﬂet, send a n SAE t o Jim

Fuller G4WPI, 4 2 Kitchener

Road, Ame sb u ry, Nr. S a lis-

bury, Wilts S I

790530.

4 7 A D .

T e l .

organiser is Lee Cooke, 117

Lumbrick Lane, Goring b y

Sea, Worthing, W. Sussex

BN12 6A0.

Dave s a y s " Co n v e y m y

thanks to all the people who

have given help and shown en-

thusiasm for DUDE while I was

involved."

Utopia

by Pulser

ALONG w i t h t h e i r l a t e s t

release S p y a g a in s t S p y ,

Pulser Software are releasing

a n e w machine code arcade

game, Utopia, scheduled fo r

the Ossett Show on April 30th.

Puiser's forthcoming adven-

ture release, Rally, h a s been

held b a c k w h i l e t h e y i n -

vestigate and correct a ma jo r

bug discovered i n t h e p ro -

gram, but is likely to be ready in

time for Ossett.

Pulser wo u ld a ls o lik e t o

4 Dragon User May 1988

hear f ro m a n y budding p ro -

grammers who wish to market

their programs. "We would like

to try to promote new writers

and give them an opportunity

to market th e ir ideas o n th e

Pulser Software label. We pro-

pose to examine their efforts

and g ive th e m feedback o n

how th e y ca n improve th e m

and t h e n s e ll t h e m o n a n

imum of E2.99" says Pulser's

Brian O'Connor.

No Chera

John Fo ste r h a s written sa y

that h i s projected so ftwa re

house Chera Designs (Adven-

ture Trail, December 1987) will

not now be going ahead 'owing

to the smallness of the market'

Quickbeam comes up

against its ﬁnal hitch

DAVE Hitchman's original soft-

to ﬁnish his work for me. How

ware co mp a n y, Q u ickb e a m

can we compete with that?"

Software, has left the software

"I d id n 't ru n Qu ickb e a m t o

business, se llin g its stock to

make a proﬁt -- I couldn't. I had

Harry Massey at Computape.

to look at it as a mangement

Computape w i l l n o w b e

and marketing excercise. But

sole suppliers of Ouickbeam

my career has taken over my

products.

hobby. It's a pity. I would like to

Dave told Dragon User that

thank everyone who has sup-

pressure of work in his career

ported us, and say I'm sorry to

had me a n t th a t h e wa s n o

be leaving,"

longer able to give customers

Other suppliers are ﬁnding it

the service they needed. " My

increasingly difﬁcult to place

customers w i l l k n o w t h a t

original, pro-quality software

something's u p , b e ca u se

on a competitive basis. On ly

have quite a few letters that I

recently, Pam D'Arcy said that

haven't h a d t ime t o a n swe r

her w o rk o n Fo rmu la O n e

yet" h e said. " I'm travelling a

would b e u n like ly t o co ve r

lot mo re now, a n d I so ld out

costs, even if the game was

to Ha rry because I reckoned

popular,

that he could give people the

Other so f t wa re i s b e in g

better su p p o rt th a n I co u ld

published by authors, o r with

under the circumstances,"

no development advance t o

Thanking DU for its ﬁve-star

authors, in order to keep prices

review o f Indoor Football in

as low as possible. This is, of

the A p ril issu e , D a v e s a id

course, o n ly possible wh e re

ruefully that it ca me just too

the author is running another,

late f o r h im t o beneﬁt f ro m

full-time, career.

the e xp e ct e d s a l e s b o o st ,

Pundits h a v e b e e n

"but I sold quite a few copies

spreading t h e ru mo u r t h a t

before t h e re vie w, a n d it ' ll

Quickbeam would sell out for

give Ha rry something to kick

at least six months to date, but

off on."

Dave Hitchman stoutly denies

He stressed that the ma in

any plans to sell out before his

reason he had chosen Compu-

career c h a n g e in te rve n e d .

tape to take over Quickbeam's

This lends force to the feeling

list wa s th a t " I t h in k th e y'll

among Dragon professionals

be around for a long time, and

that s p re a d in g d o o m , a

it was part of the agreement

pastime f a v o u r e d a m o n g

that th e y wo u ld su p p o rt m y

some D r a g o n o b s e r v e r s

previous customers, as well as

without a ﬁnancial o r profes-

just se llin g o f f t h e cu rre n t

sional s t a k e , i s a c t i v e l y

stock."

detrimental t o t h e Dra g o n

Dragon Use r asked Dave if

market destroying conﬁdence

the criticisms that h is p rice s

among Dragon users_

were t o o h i g h , m a d e b y

vociferous se ct io n s o f t h e

Dragon following from time to

time, had played any part in his

quitting. He replied that it cer-

tainly had not.

"Someone rang me up from

one of the fanzines and put that

to me. I told him, if you think

that you can publish original

Malcolm Cowan o f th e OS-9

software for less, you go and

Users Group (see April issue

do it."

Stop Press) has written to say

that Ma rtin Vernon h a s n o w

"I know that the card wraps

were cheap and nasty, but that

been in touch. He did not make

is what you have to do to keep

clear whether the running of

prices down. In their heyday,

the group was back to normal,

Microdeal were selling games

but we suggest that members

for at least E8, and they weren't

and p ro sp e ct ive m e m b e r s

developing mo s t o f th e m. I

allow longer than usual to clear

bought in software because I

queries.

wanted it, and I had to pay for it

For those who wondered —

myself. fro m scratch. On e o f

no, it wasn't an April fool. They

my programmers was offered

really did lose him.

£25,000 t o g o a n d w o r k

somewhere else, but he stayed

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