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APOLOGIES: I have been off the ball regarding my dear old Dragon since just before Christmas. I have been distracted by resurrecting my stamp collection (yes really!). I thought I'd give the dragon a go today and then remembered that my iPad isn't charged, which is what I use for loading, or should ...

Brilliant. Thanks for that Zephyr. Looking forward to trying it now.

OK, thanks Zephyr.

Apologies in advance for the dumb question:

Do I need to input the POKE before loading, or is that in the code of the modified version of the game?

I'm hoping to do this on Tuesday. I'll certainly share the results.

With this one: POKE65495,0:POKE65497,0:SOUND1,255":POKE65496,0:POKE65494,0 I got the tone but a garbled screen. It was non responsive to BREAK. After hammering the BREAK key for some time I got a garbled boot screen and silence was restored. I pressed restore and the boot screen came back. I typed ...

I'm late as well, been away, but Merry Christmas everybody.

OK, thanks both, I shall certainly try those things.

When I said Hammering the Break key, I wasn't really hammering it that hard. I do have a respect for my old machines.

So it looks as though it may well do double speed after all then.
More testing when I get a chance!

Thanks Zephyr, I'll certainly give those a try.

Is it worth upgrading the CPU as some have suggested?

Is it easy to do, i.e. socketed?

I have replaced Z80s on Spectrums before, would I be right in thinking that it's a similar process?

With this one: POKE65495,0:POKE65497,0:SOUND1,255":POKE65496,0:POKE65494,0 I got the tone but a garbled screen. It was non responsive to BREAK. After hammering the BREAK key for some time I got a garbled boot screen and silence was restored. I pressed restore and the boot screen came back. I typed L...

So I let the D32 warm up for just over 30 minutes. POKE 65495,0 gives a return of OK POKE 65497,0 gives a garbled flickering green and yellow screen that travels from top to bottom. If I hit the break key it gets greener and displays lots of @ symbols and the flicker changes to right to left. RESET ...