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- Tue Sep 15, 2015 2:43 am
- Forum: Dragon General
- Topic: ASCII to CAS in Perl?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2770
Re: ASCII to CAS in Perl?
Dragon Convert (DC) also does this conversion; although you asked for a Perl script!
- Mon Sep 14, 2015 7:01 pm
- Forum: Dragon General
- Topic: File2VDK anyone?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 44757
Re: File2VDK anyone?
I'd recommend picking a different source ID value (e.g. 0x03 or something unique)! ;) The flag and compression definitions can be found in DOSCART.C (pcd206s.zip): #define VDKFLAGS_WP 0x01 // write protect #define VDKFLAGS_ALOCK 0x02 // advisory lock (can be overridden) #define VDKFLAGS_FLOCK 0x04 /...
- Wed Sep 09, 2015 5:36 pm
- Forum: Dragon General
- Topic: Converting cassettes
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2380
Re: Converting cassettes
Yep, I'm glad you figured that out! :D There's a little information about DCWIN in the wiki that you may have already seen and a small amount of discussion here although no instructions. The DCWIN core borrows extensively from the far older MS-DOS based tool DC.EXE; as a result the documentation for...
- Thu Sep 03, 2015 8:18 pm
- Forum: Hints and Tips
- Topic: Protection systems
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18400
Re: Protection systems
The vast majority of tape based software used standard block structures, even if (as mentioned above) some of the more interesting loaders utilised various non-standard / out-of-order block types or deliberate CRCs, etc. As a result, close to 100% could be copied reliably and fairly easily with Quic...
- Fri Aug 21, 2015 3:27 pm
- Forum: Dragon General
- Topic: Dragon 64 rescued from local dump ! (image heavy)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6283
Re: Dragon 64 rescued from local dump ! (image heavy)
Wow, awesome job!
Well done Stig (of the dump)!
Well done Stig (of the dump)!
- Fri Aug 21, 2015 3:17 pm
- Forum: Dragon General
- Topic: burgins.com and maddes.net gone?!?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7429
Re: burgins.com and maddes.net gone?!?
Yes, I spring-cleaned the Dragon content from my personal domain and separated it out to emulator.org.uk many years ago. However, these pages were still hosted by my employer and after remaining online long beyond the removal of other non-work sites, as a special case, it appears they finally vanish...
- Wed Aug 12, 2015 4:27 pm
- Forum: Uploads
- Topic: Dragon 32 "Quick Reference Guide"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2530
Re: Dragon 32 "Quick Reference Guide"
That looks familiar - it was originally part of the BASIC manual, wasn't it - detachable via perforations?
- Wed Jul 08, 2015 7:06 pm
- Forum: Uploads
- Topic: T3 v1.01 (break key fix)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8014
Re: T3 v1.01 (break key fix)
Thanks zephyr, cool screenshots. It's nice to know that someone still remembers T3. Maybe I'll try it on my Hudl2 sometime!
- Mon Jun 29, 2015 4:13 pm
- Forum: Dragon General
- Topic: Computer museum seeks BBC Micro fixers
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2574
Computer museum seeks BBC Micro fixers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33291036A public appeal for people who can repair BBC Micro computers has been launched by a museum.
The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) needs help to maintain the stock of BBC machines it uses in education programmes and exhibits.
- Mon Jun 15, 2015 10:15 am
- Forum: Software Requests
- Topic: Choplifter?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5602
Re: Choplifter?
I think there were a couple of attempts at something similar although not sticking too closely to the original concept or tending to cross with ideas from Defender, e.g. Copta Snatch?