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by Bosco
Sun Feb 23, 2025 3:27 pm
Forum: Dragon Hardware
Topic: Differences between dragon and coco detectable from the cart slot
Replies: 2
Views: 37309

Re: Differences between dragon and coco detectable from the cart slot

sorchard showed me a simple method for determining whether a machine is PAL or NTSC by timing a video frame (in case that's useful) but obviously not all Dragons are PAL and not all CoCos are NTSC.
by Bosco
Sat Feb 01, 2025 11:13 am
Forum: Dragon General
Topic: XRoar 1.8 released
Replies: 12
Views: 284162

Re: XRoar 1.8 released

Great update! Thanks sixxie. :D
by Bosco
Sun Nov 17, 2024 2:43 pm
Forum: Discuss This Site
Topic: New member from Manchester, UK
Replies: 4
Views: 41292

Re: New member from Manchester, UK

Welcome Dean. Always good to see new forum members. :)
by Bosco
Fri Nov 15, 2024 8:16 pm
Forum: Dragon General
Topic: A.K. Dewdney in "Dragon User"
Replies: 5
Views: 41696

Re: A.K. Dewdney in "Dragon User"

A.K.Dewdney was a notable Canadian mathematician and computer scientist (amongst other things). It's highly possible you've read an article of his but probably not in the pages of Dragon User.
by Bosco
Thu Oct 10, 2024 7:55 pm
Forum: Dragon General
Topic: Dragon Meetup 2024 Parking
Replies: 2
Views: 37857

Re: Dragon Meetup 2024 Parking

Great! Thanks Stew. :)
by Bosco
Wed Oct 09, 2024 12:00 am
Forum: Dragon General
Topic: Dragon Meetup 2024 Parking
Replies: 2
Views: 37857

Dragon Meetup 2024 Parking

Hi. Forgive me for starting a new Meetup thread but with only a few days to go I figured this would get noticed more quickly. So, this is directed at people arriving by car or who know Cambridge well. It was suggested last year that people driving to the Meetup could bounce between parking at the Te...
by Bosco
Thu Sep 26, 2024 11:23 pm
Forum: Software Requests
Topic: Quazimodo - Cable Software
Replies: 12
Views: 69931

Re: Quazimodo - Cable Software

I was actually in the pub yesterday with Tony Brightman, co-author of Quazimodo. He and his brother were still at school when it was published by Cable. Tony would have been thirteen or fourteen at the time. :)
by Bosco
Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:29 am
Forum: Dragon General
Topic: Cuthbert and the Earworms
Replies: 5
Views: 21696

Re: Cuthbert and the Earworms

All done with Udio. A work colleague first drew my attention to Udio after which I figured it might be fun to prompt the AI with Cuthbert titles and associated words, to see what happens. This selection represents my personal favourites but as I'm sure you can imagine you get a lot of not so interes...
by Bosco
Wed Apr 17, 2024 11:27 pm
Forum: Dragon General
Topic: Cuthbert and the Earworms
Replies: 5
Views: 21696

Cuthbert and the Earworms

No, not a previously undiscovered Microdeal game, just some tomfoolery / work in progress. :lol:
CuthbertTracks.zip
(22.52 MiB) Downloaded 1080 times
by Bosco
Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:44 pm
Forum: Dragon General
Topic: Dithertron
Replies: 1
Views: 16432

Dithertron

A friend of mine spotted this cool browser app for converting images to a variety of retro video hardware, including the MC6847.

https://8bitworkshop.com/dithertron/#sy ... parrot.jpg