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by bluearcus
Tue Dec 22, 2020 12:11 am
Forum: Software Requests
Topic: Jaysoft - Taipan
Replies: 7
Views: 1940

Jaysoft - Taipan

Has anyone ever seen a copy of this? The old TRS-80 Model 1 trading game it was advertised in early Popular Computing Weeklies... a google will turn it up. It doesn't seem to be on any of the software lists, perhaps because Jaysoft didn't advertise in the kosher Dragon Press? I had a (probably hooky...
by bluearcus
Wed Dec 02, 2020 7:55 pm
Forum: Discuss This Site
Topic: Dragon 64 ROM download wrong...
Replies: 2
Views: 1964

Re: Dragon 64 ROM download wrong...

There's more than one version of the D64 rom as well, we discovered...
by bluearcus
Wed Dec 02, 2020 7:54 pm
Forum: Software Requests
Topic: New Dimension Software - 3D Graphics
Replies: 3
Views: 1820

Re: New Dimension Software - 3D Graphics

Aha, nice! Thanks.

Does the inlay give any hints for the keyboard? Number keys seem to do some rotating / translating etc and one of them exits.
by bluearcus
Wed Nov 11, 2020 4:43 pm
Forum: Dragon General
Topic: Pipes by Nick Marentes now available for Dragon and Coco
Replies: 2
Views: 1362

Re: Pipes by Nick Marentes now available for Dragon and Coco

For anyone wanting to run this on a Dragon with a disk system, it's worth mentioning that in a message to Nick when you buy it, as a trivial patch to prevent the disk motor shutoff code from causing problems is required to make the game work under DragonDOS. He will then send you a VDK of the amende...
by bluearcus
Tue Oct 06, 2020 9:56 pm
Forum: Dragon Hardware
Topic: CoCoSDC
Replies: 3
Views: 1942

Re: CoCoSDC

Quite a few of us have CoCoSDC's... if you search on here there are quite a lot of posts about Pere's development of the Dos Plus Extender ROM! With the SDC Explorer it is an excellent system. However, it's a bit unreliable with OS9 booting, something that I've been investigating for quite a while. ...
by bluearcus
Wed Sep 16, 2020 11:33 pm
Forum: Software Requests
Topic: New Dimension Software - 3D Graphics
Replies: 3
Views: 1820

New Dimension Software - 3D Graphics

Anyone have a CAS of this available?
by bluearcus
Wed Jul 08, 2020 11:43 pm
Forum: Dragon General
Topic: RALLY SG - A new game for the Dragon
Replies: 2
Views: 1988

Re: RALLY SG - A new game for the Dragon

Stonking game, and one that's been missing on the Dragon / CoCo for a long time!
by bluearcus
Fri Jul 03, 2020 11:12 pm
Forum: Dragon General
Topic: MSX Dragon
Replies: 6
Views: 2952

Re: MSX Dragon

I very much appreciated you making it available for the Dragon user meet here in the UK two years ago! Thankyou David!
by bluearcus
Thu Jul 02, 2020 1:01 pm
Forum: Discuss This Site
Topic: Hi from Barcelona
Replies: 8
Views: 3192

Re: Hi from Barcelona

Hello and welcome David!

It is not always busy here, but it's a lot better than facebook for ensuring resources and discussions stick around and are retrievable. Some of the older discussion threads I found absolutely fascinating when I joined here at first!

Kind regards,

Mike
by bluearcus
Thu Jun 25, 2020 11:34 pm
Forum: Dragon General
Topic: Dragon power board problems!
Replies: 9
Views: 4563

Re: Dragon power board problems!

Well, the TO-3 LM309 replacements arrived. IMG_20200611_170548.jpg and I (with some trepidation) took the de-soldering iron and braid to the power board on my workhorse D64. IMG_20200623_205857.jpg Actually, I probably didn't need to desolder the main through heatsink GND bolts, they could simply ha...