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  • ...hed in August by [[Dragon Data Ltd]] (a subsidiary of [[Mettoy]]). For its time it was a good and powerful design but many were sceptical as the parent toy ...s of memory (4K or 16K), but [[Mettoy]] worked around this by making their machine 32K: it was to be 16K, but Sinclair announced that another Spectrum model w
    68 KB (11,645 words) - 20:04, 13 February 2019
  • Last time the Secretary's word processor made an interesting composite of 1) Recap. Last time I discussed how many Dragon32's have 'hidden' RAM. This
    42 KB (7,619 words) - 09:19, 2 September 2014
  • to program in machine code than examining experts routines. MACHINE CODE PROGRAM ADDRESSES
    79 KB (11,747 words) - 17:54, 9 July 2017
  • that it uses no memory at all, so ALL your Basic and Machine Code programs dictating machine and uses the same size minicassettes (15 mins each
    33 KB (5,877 words) - 09:18, 2 September 2014
  • and we will see a renaisence of the market, onlt time will tell. Our Dragon Users Group stand was extremely busy for most of the time. Many new
    29 KB (4,953 words) - 09:19, 2 September 2014
  • 65495,0 for a Good Time', obviously the incentives aren't great enough to With a suitable machine code programe we can intercept any character
    29 KB (4,873 words) - 09:18, 2 September 2014
  • machine, such as may be found` by reading say 'Inside the Dragon' (Smead & useful to you - if however you know at least a smattering of machine-code or use
    45 KB (8,038 words) - 00:10, 30 September 2021
  • machine code routine(s). The facilities are as follows:- graphics,then it saves you typing "PRINT CHR$(XXX)" every time I
    31 KB (5,315 words) - 09:19, 2 September 2014
  • ...e ideas got dropped, as it would mean a much higher price tag to the final machine and by the fact that most people already owned a TV, the monitor was a bit ...otypes (around 20) at home, into the small hours. Unfortunately due to the time it took to create the dies for the plastic moulding of the case, these prot
    6 KB (973 words) - 17:04, 5 August 2014
  • machine in question is a Telex terminal or Teleprinter. Let's look at the problems one at a time. The Dragon, like most
    21 KB (3,712 words) - 09:18, 2 September 2014
  • time to announce my retirement, not this issue or even the next, but within the and add-ons are normally machine dependant whch makes them
    25 KB (4,532 words) - 09:19, 2 September 2014
  • But with a 64k machine (whether an upgraded Dragon32 or a true Dragon64) there Alan had SuperdosE on his machine which had some nice features - so we hacked
    3 KB (614 words) - 13:34, 21 April 2015
  • '''MACHINE CODE - POWERFUL ... EFFECTIVE ... ATTAINABLE!''' ...s the only way that you, the programmer, can harness the full power of the machine - for really fast games, accurate timing to thousandths of a second and tot
    1 KB (188 words) - 14:07, 21 August 2015
  • "We looked at the amount of time spent scanning the keyboard. Of the 2ms spent in each run of the loop, 0.7m ...ompany in Wales and high-street shops were queuing up to stock the popular machine; Dixons, Comet and Spectrum joining Boots as a Dragon retailer though the s
    10 KB (1,592 words) - 16:45, 5 August 2014
  • ...producers of games and other software for the 8-bit home computers of the time, in particular the [[Dragon 32]] and the similar Tandy TRS-80 Color Compute ...several different sources - the graphical limitations of computers at that time meant that a character was unrecognisable and could be given any convenient
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  • ...se of the extra available memory. The game will also detect a PAL or NTSC machine and will adjust both graphics mode and refresh rate accordingly. ...ontain special exits that let you skip levels, if you can find them before time runs out! Like other "infinite-continues" Gauntlet-style games, you can ke
    2 KB (300 words) - 11:46, 9 September 2010
  • | Loads a machine code program | Loads and runs a machine code program
    10 KB (1,639 words) - 14:43, 6 April 2016
  • ...rd disc available as an add-on. Together with an on-board power supply the machine also incorporated an 80-column display based on the [[MC6845]] and an RGB m ...OS-9 allowing multiple terminal access and a networking card allowing one machine to be used as a file-server to the others.
    2 KB (302 words) - 22:54, 6 December 2014
  • [[Dream Machine]] [[Time Machine Search]]
    197 bytes (21 words) - 17:58, 29 March 2016
  • *[[Dream Machine]] *[[Time Machine Search]]
    2 KB (285 words) - 17:06, 10 May 2016
  • 485/6 1E5/6 Execution address of machine code file 487/8 1E7/8 Load address of ungapped machine code file
    41 KB (5,517 words) - 23:33, 29 September 2021
  • ...es which can attack at any time, avoiding traps and tricks. Played in real time. Over 200 rooms. Three skill levels. Save game to tape feature. 1 or 2 joys
    2 KB (205 words) - 09:17, 7 April 2016
  • ...t help in creating a multi-load cart that we used at VCF-GB and for taking time out to dump a load of ROMS for me. ...eaders, but could also be level data or graphic data for 64K games). For a time it will be split between the two locations as I work through each publisher
    16 KB (2,499 words) - 11:49, 26 June 2022
  • In addition to the [[Dragon 32]] and [[Dragon 64]], an MSX-compatible machine, the [[Dragon MSX]] reached the prototype stage. ...s style was used from the launch it can be assumed it died out at the same time as the early logo cart boxes (Dec' 82).
    12 KB (1,862 words) - 23:56, 18 December 2016
  • ...ilt around the Motorola [[MC6809E]] processor running at 0.89 MHz. For the time, this was a relatively sophisticated 8-bit CPU, with limited 16-bit capabil ...ilar that a significant fraction of the compiled software produced for one machine would happily run on the other. Software running via the built-in Basic int
    4 KB (632 words) - 21:19, 6 February 2020
  • ....89 MHz. In effect, since the BASIC interpreter runs from ROM, putting the machine in this mode would nearly double the performance of a BASIC program while m
    3 KB (549 words) - 17:22, 5 August 2014
  • ...APE(trapped in a mine with your air running out - dynamite yourself out in time); CHECKERS(outmanoeuvre the computer in this classic board game); MISSION A ...kills as you follow the instructions to put each of the programs into your machine, and comes complete with a brief dictionary of computer terms, a selective
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  • *[[The Time Machine]]
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  • [[The Time Machine]]
    345 bytes (41 words) - 10:47, 6 April 2016
  • ...obtained an MSX license and Dragon Data were reportedly working on an MSX machine prior to going bankrupt. The only definate version is the one Radofin made ...kbeam Software]] label. Thus these games were only available for a limited time from [[A & F Software]] and sold in limited numbers.
    3 KB (517 words) - 10:10, 16 August 2021
  • ...acked game!); '''TREASURE TRAIL'''(can you find the hidden treasure in the time you have left?); '''BAT'N'BALL'''(keep a fast-moving ball in play); and ''' ...kills as you follow the instructions to put each of the programs into your machine, and comes complete with a brief dictionary of computer terms, a selective
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