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It was all a very, very long time ago.

They were very exciting times though, I was very lucky to have been involved.

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...

Yes, I get the blame for a lot of other things too!

Got it, Tony - and have replied.

Catch you now via email.

Cheers,

Roy.

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 ...

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 ...

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....

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 ...

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.

sixxie wrote:(Oh, and try AUDIO ON before loading CAS or ASCII BASIC files for new horrible noise reproduction ).

Oh how this made me laugh! It's been far too many years since I heard that noise!

Wonderful - thank you

Roy.