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ISSN 0265-0177. Telex: 296275

Dragon User, 1 2 13 Little Newport Street.

London WC2R 3L0.

US address: c o Business Press

International. 205 East 42nd St, New York,

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Published b y Sunshine Books, Scot Pres s

Ltd_ S u n s h i n e Books 1984.

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paper

Dragon a n d i t s l o g o a r e t rademark s o f

Dragon Data Ltd.

How to submit articles

The quality of the material we can publish in

Dragon User each month will, to a very great

extend, depend on t he quality of t he dis -

coveries that you can mak e with your Dra-

gon. The Dragon 32 computer was launched

on to the market with a powerful version of

Basic, but with very poor documentation_

Every one of us who uses a Dragon will be

able to discover new tricks and quirks almost

every day. To help other Dragon users keep

up with the speed of the development each

of u s mu s t a s s u me t hat w e ma d e t h e

discovery ﬁrst — that means writing it down

and passing it on to others.

Articles whic h are s ubmit t ed t o Dragon

User for publication should not be more than

3000 words long. All submissions should be

typed. Pleas e leav e wi d e margins a n d a

double space between each line Programs

should, whenev er pos s ible, b e c omput er

printed on plain white paper and be accom-

panied by a tape of the program.

We c annot guarant ee t o ret urn ev ery

Submitted article or prograni. so please keep

a copy. I f you want t o hav e y our program

returned y o u mu s t inc lude a s t amped.

addressed envelope

A U -

StittittiNE

Including this month further information on

two of our reviews, advice on the Dragon's

cassette interface, recommended software

and book t it les a n d a c ont ac t addres s f or

Versatile Dragon

2 3

errors found in P a n s &way Programs fo r

the Dragon 32

lolo ap Gwynn's ASC II solution to improve

the quality of your creativity and overcome

the drawbacks of the Dragon's limited text

screen a n d standard g re e n background

colour

News

Book review

The la te st d e ta ils o n software, utilities,

peripherals and hardware fo r the Dragon

including a n u p d a te o n t h e n e w micro s

coming soon from GEC Dragon

Mike Ha rriso n t a ke s a lo o k a t t wo a d -

vanced books for the Dragon to help you

with yo u r p ro g ra mmin g activities (Co ve r

illustration by Stuart Hughes)

Software analysis 1 3

John S crive n 's re g u la r mo n t h ly re v ie w

devoted to a variety of software programs

for t h e Dra g o n , in clu d in g t h is mo n t h a

selection of compilers

Open File

t he April edit ion of Dr a g o n Us er

Published programs from our readers this

month include the corrected listing of the

program Ma sh wh ich wa s ﬁ rst printed in

Databases

Dragon Answers

4 9

Keith and Steven Bra in take a lo o k a t a

number of business systems software and

applications programs for the Dragon and

come up with the winners

Brian Ca d g e tie s u p th e missing pieces.

gives yo u a saving solution and puts an

end to a variety of problems encountered

by our readers

Autorunning

Competition Corner 5 4

A thermal tra n sfe r p rin te r fro m Jo n e s &

Brother is this mo n t h s sta r prize fo r the

successful entrant to Gordon L e e s co m-

petition

Brian C a d g e s p ro g ra m so lu t io n t h a t

allows Basic programs to be autorun after

Editorial

SAD NE WS c a me from Dra gon Da ta a t the beginning o f June. The c ompa ny

announced th a t th e receivers h a d be e n c a lle d i n following " th e c ontinuing

difﬁculties o f establishing proﬁtable tra ding i n the UK a nd othe r pa rts o f the

world".

Obviously this threatens the future of the new Dragon Professional, previewed

on p a g e 9 o f t h is issu e . B u t t h e co mp a n y sa ys it " h a s co n ﬁ d e n ce in it s n e w

products a nd the market opportunities they represent and will be using its best

endeavours in helping the receivers to explore ways of continuing trading".

The company has been no stranger to stories of ﬁnancial problems. It was last

September that a E 2

the company insisted tha t this s um was primarily a n investment, but outsiders

saw m more ias a rescue package. At the time the difﬁculties were attributed partly

/ 2 it i l l o n

to poor salesi last summer. The message at the beginning of this June was similar

f u n d

but not restricted to a speciﬁc season: "The home computer market was not as

buoyant as people believed." Earlier this year British Home Stores decided to stop

selling the 32 and cleared its shelves by selling the machine at a bargain basement

price. Rival chain store Boots, responsible for so many Dragon sales, was also

expected c drop the 32 but to continue selling software for the machine.

to e

d The 32 is an old micro now in microcomputing terms and was unable to resist

the challenge of newer machines, The time taken to release disk drives hindered

the 32's growth while the 64, an attempt to move upmarket, was little more than an

upgraded 32, A further delay. between the arrival of the 64 and the applications

softwareg t o r un o n i t, d i d furthe r damage.

o Sadly n wheel has now turned full circle. The 32 was developed by toy-maker

Mettoy which, faced by its own ﬁnancial problems, sold rights to the machine to

the newly a

formed Dragon Data. Last October. nearly a year later, Molloy called in

the receivers. No w the sa me fate has befallen Dragon Data.

Please note that as Dra gon User is an independent publication we will not be

effected by Dragon Data•s ﬁnancial problems.

July 1984 Dragon User 3

Letters

Maze

defence

OUR reviewers do a great job

with limited time to examine all

the games they are sent. but it is

a little annoying for a small com-

pany trying t o d o something

about the quality and price of

Dragon cassettes, t o ﬁ nd it s

offering criticised f o r features

which have speciﬁcally been

taken care of.

The reviewer of - -

(software review May 1984, Dra

Witc hway

gon User) complained of being

"squashed" too frequently by the

walls of the maze. with the conse-

quent tedium of waiting for the

game t o re-initialise. However.

there is a command listed in the

instructions which prevents this

happening, and both my 7- arid

4-year-old sons have no trouble

in using it in time.

In fact. "Witchway w a s de-

liberately designed s o that the

player is rarely killed at random

and should have a long playing

time. The wait to restart then

comes as more of a welcome

rest'

However, jus t i n case this

should s till be an irritation t o

some. I have now taken care of it

by omitting certain sections of

initialisation o n subsequent

games (unless the difﬁculty level

is altered). I have also now dis-

abled the BREAK key in sections

where its inadvertent use would

wreck the screen display. and

CONT would be useless.

tan Murray-Watson

Peterchurch

Here fordshire

This is the chance to air yo u r vie ws — send yo u r tips, co mp lime n ts and co mp la in ts to Letters

Page, Dra g o n User, 12-13 Little Ne wp o rt Street. London WC2 R 3LD.

rophone line when saving a prog-

ram). This does mean that the

tape has to be started and stop-

ped manually, and plugs have to

be changed. however, my loading

errors have gone away and so I

feel this is a small price to pay.

H Cox

Aberystwyth

Dyfed

the ﬁ ve problem programs i s

available from Elizabeth Kinnel,

Pan Personal Computer News.

Computer Library, 1 8 Cavaye

Place, London SIN18_

escape

IHAVE discovered something in-

teresting in Microdeal's Cuthbert

in the Jungle (Pitfall)

While running along I fell down

one of the holes into the Scor-

pion's Domain, Then when I was

climbing up a ladder I jumped Of

half-way (this only happens very

rarely). This meant I was sus-

pended i n mid-air — i t also

enabled me to walk above the

scorpions so they could not bite

me.

Jevon West

St Albans

Herts

ANYOTHER readers who have

noticed ''interes ting t h in g s

happening i n games they've

played should write to let us

know — we re not proud about

Personal

problem

I AM writing to you to complain

about the Pan Personal Computer

News book Sixty Programs for

the Dragon 32. My complaint is

about the listings — some prog-

rams have lines left out and

others have the wrong com-

mands. At the price of E4.95 I

should have thought that there

would be no errors in the book

If anyone has the book and has

managed to correct the error in

the Dalaxians program could they

please send me the correct list-

ing

Philip Coe

Canto! Farm

Liverpool

WE HAVE had several queries

concerning t h e list in g s p u b -

use the BUILD command on the

essential 0S9 system disk t o

prepare text ﬁles. This is not

actually an editor but it does allow

you to create text ﬁles, although if

you make a mistake when using

BUILD you have to rewrite the text

from scratch

This is obviously rather frus-

trating if you only want to use

RMS, but it seems unlikely that

many users will fall into that

category. One of the virtues of

059 is that i t is a complete

interlocking system with a com-

mon ﬁle structure, which can be

accessed by any utility, and we

would expect users who opt for

0S9 to also have at least one

other package containing a lull

editor. We trust that this explains

the situation clearly.

Kett? and Steven Bram

Perlygaer

Cardiff

For book

worms

I WOULD lik e t o pass on t o

readers the title ol a book that I

have found very useful in helping

to understand my Dragon

Know Your Dragon by Don

Monro ipublished by the Tiny

Publishing Company of Haywards

Heath) is far clearer and much

more easily understood than the

Dragon manual, which is both

difﬁcult t o understand without

previous computer experience

and in many respects more com-

prehensive My own copy came

from a Tandy shop. price C5_95.

but i s presumably available

through most bookshops.

0 Walton

Kendal

Cumbro

the ways we get high scores.

lished in Sixty Programs for the

Dragon 32 and have been i n

contact with Pan Books about the

problem_

They assure us that they are

aware o f t h e e rro rs. wh ich .

according t o David Kewley o f

Pan Books, occur in ﬁve of the

listings. The situation arose, he

said, because most of the list-

ings in the book were converted

from other micros to the Dragon.

Pan h a s a lu ll-lime b u ye r

support system wh ich w i l l in -

vestigate p o s s ib le p ro g ra m

errors. and a correction sheet

containing error free listings of

Text

ﬁles

ASWE mentioned in the review of

Dragon Data's Record Manage-

ment System (RMS) in the May

issue of Dragon User, it is neces-

sary to create text ﬁles for the

Report and Dictionary functions.

but no text editor is included on

the RMS disk and indeed Dragon

Data suggests the use of either

its Stylograph word-processor

or the Editor Assembler Debugger

package,

However even if you do not

have either of these Iwo editors

(or the BASIC09 disk which in-

cludes a text editorL you can still

Audible

humming

JUDGING by the editorial and one

of the articles in the May 8 4

edition of Dragon User, it s ob-

vious that I am not the Only one 10

have had trouble with the Dragon

cassette interface.

In my case the problem was

caused b y hav ing t h e mic -

rophone, playback and remote

lines permanently connected.

which caused an earth loop. (Evi-

denced by a humming when us-

ing the "audio on

- The solution was to use only

one connection at a time (for

c o m m a n

example using only the mic -

d . )

4 Dra g o n User July 1984

Software Top 10

1 (—) Cuthbert in Space M i c r o d e a l

2 ( 3 ) Chuckle Egg

Software

3 ( 1 ) Dragon Chess

4 ( 7 ) Kriegspiel

5 ( 6 ) Eightball

M i c r o d e a l

6(10) Skramble M i c r o d e a l

7 ( 2 ) Hungry Horace M e l b o u r n e House

8 (—) Sprite Magic

9 (—) Space Shuttle Simulator M i c r o d e a l

10 (—) Sprint

Chart compiled by Websters Software

Parisian

pen-pal

I AM 16. live near Pans and have

been learning English for ﬁ ve

years I would appreciate speak.

mg (or rather writing) 'Dragonw

We could also possibly make

an exchange during the summer

holidays.

My father is a microsystems

engineer_ and I am the owner of a

Dragon. My address is 4 Allee du

Midi, 94420 Le Plessis-Trevise,

France.

Marc Pah)

, France

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