It was all a very, very long time ago.
They were very exciting times though, I was very lucky to have been involved.
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- Wed Mar 06, 2019 8:58 am
- Forum: Dragon General
- Topic: Read Flex disks on a PC ?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 17014
- Tue Mar 05, 2019 10:37 am
- Forum: Dragon General
- Topic: Read Flex disks on a PC ?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 17014
Re: Read Flex disks on a PC ?
They weren't "conversions". Each was written completely from scratch. I'd play the Spectrum version, then go and write code to make the Dragon do the same thing. I would often spend hours literally counting pixels to make sure the graphics were the same on both platforms. And I've just realised, tha...
- Wed Apr 04, 2018 4:03 pm
- Forum: Dragon General
- Topic: Compusense, DragonPlus and the hard disk interface ...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5172
Re: Compusense, DragonPlus and the hard disk interface ...
Yes, I get the blame for a lot of other things too!
- Tue Apr 03, 2018 3:59 pm
- Forum: Dragon General
- Topic: Compusense, DragonPlus and the hard disk interface ...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5172
Re: Compusense, DragonPlus and the hard disk interface ...
Got it, Tony - and have replied.
Catch you now via email.
Cheers,
Roy.
Catch you now via email.
Cheers,
Roy.
- Mon Apr 02, 2018 10:26 pm
- Forum: Dragon General
- Topic: Compusense, DragonPlus and the hard disk interface ...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5172
Re: Compusense, DragonPlus and the hard disk interface ...
Tony, I am amazed that there is still so much interest in the Dragon after all these years and was tickled pink to find mention of Flex - an operating system I absolutely loved working with. I have extremely fond memories of Ted and did some work for him 'back in the day' mostly I think on the Flex ...
- Sat Apr 16, 2011 1:07 pm
- Forum: Dragon General
- Topic: Read Flex disks on a PC ?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 17014
Re: Read Flex disks on a PC ?
A brief aside: Wrt the TRS-80, what a lot of people didn't realise was that there was no access to Mathew's Model 4 or to the original Speccy code. Both MM and JSW were written by playing/studying the spectrum version and then writing code to mimic what I saw. Graphics were generated by pausing the ...
- Sat Apr 16, 2011 1:02 pm
- Forum: Dragon General
- Topic: Read Flex disks on a PC ?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 17014
Re: Read Flex disks on a PC ?
Two methods of dumping Dragon disks using a PC: The linux option looks useful, don't know why I didn't think of that! Likewise if you can help "Prime" with the Dragon Plus board I would be personally very greatful (its my board thats dead) - we need to get a dump of the prom so we can replicate it....
- Sun Apr 10, 2011 11:16 pm
- Forum: Dragon General
- Topic: Read Flex disks on a PC ?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 17014
Re: Read Flex disks on a PC ?
Ohhh a second Dragon Plus board, hopefully a working one.... Well that remains to be seen. it would be great if we could get a good dump of that prom. If you have a reader, I don't see why not. Are you the same Roy Coates that did the Dragon versions of Manic Miner / Jet Set Willy ? Yeah, that was ...
- Fri Apr 08, 2011 11:39 pm
- Forum: Dragon General
- Topic: Hardware Sprite Board
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4693
Re: Hardware Sprite Board
The Dragon Plus is not vapour ware - they do exist...but chances of finding one are next to zero. In the last 10 years oI have only seen one. Make that two. I've got one :) I did some work for Tad at Compusense many moons ago (Flex Utilities iirc) and probably got it in exchange for that work. Roy.
- Fri Apr 08, 2011 11:36 pm
- Forum: Dragon General
- Topic: Hello and BASIC Development
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3382
Re: Hello and BASIC Development
Oh how this made me laugh! It's been far too many years since I heard that noise!sixxie wrote:(Oh, and try AUDIO ON before loading CAS or ASCII BASIC files for new horrible noise reproduction ).
Wonderful - thank you
Roy.