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Alastair wrote: I'm not sure if Simon wants one person sitting in front of a Dragon for a few hours.

And I was just about to volunteer too.

'Escape' used to be pretty un-raucous. Right up to the point where you want to take a hammer to the Dragon because you have no idea where you are. Again.

Alastair wrote: a few gentle puzzle games should be included - if only I could think of some good examples.
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I always find Trekboer a nice chilled puzzler (but that may be because I know it off by heart!).

Many thanks for all the hard work, it is much appreciated. Hopefully, it wont be goodbye so I'll leave you with the immortal line from Microdeals Android Attack....

THERE. WILL. BE. NEXT. TIME.

Superb. Great title. I'll have a look at that later tonight. Do I dare though? I've clearly never owned a copy so I may get into trouble for downloading a copy for emulation! I may get the ghost of Brian Cadge* bearing down on me demanding some 'Answers' of his own! I'll give it a bit of thought. *T...

Im not sure if the above is Zephyr taking the mickey or not. If its an early/mid eighties game you never know.

This one must have passed me by, unless ROTABB is an acronym?

Rise Of The er.

Return Of The ah.

Running Over The um.

Rotating On Top And..best leaving that one there.

Happy christmas to all fellow Dragon users. Sadly, there'll be no cassettes of games in our stockings again this year but we can still reminisce. Cassettes. My kids have never even seen a cassette, the very idea that there would a computer program on one would amuse them mightily. See you on the oth...

Now this is either an extremely freaky coincidence or it offers an insight into what happens to early-eighties software developers when the industry implodes. I passed through Erdington today and, being a bit bored, diverted to 4 Orphanage Road as displayed on the title screen of Fenmars Total Eclip...

Was earlier trying to get get Fenmars Total Eclipse to work on the XRoar emulator to no avail; when it asks for the universe to be loaded I have no tape to insert. However, point of the post is the load screen reminds me that Fenmar was based in Erdington in the West Midlands, Orphanage Road to be p...

Gah, the snake is worse :) Did that game really load without a title screen on the Dragon version, btw? No, it had the old Microdeal page - "Tape Now Loading! Software By Microdeal - Copyright '83 - N.B Illegal to copy, hire or offer this tape for rental unless of course in the future it all goes t...