Dragon Composer / Composer Companion
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2019 2:03 pm
Another tape writer I appear to have is for "Composer Companion" by Starship Software (distributed by Dragonfire). There are some fairly cryptic notes about how to load it, but it needs actual Composer loaded first - and I'm lacking any instructions about how to do that in a way that it likes.
Now as it happens, I have a couple of copies of the Composer manual for some reason, and I'm a bit confused by the tape images uploaded here: the manual suggests it should drop straight into a menu, but even the non-Jukebox file plays a tune several minutes long before doing so.
That seems a bit odd for a utility - forcing you to listen to several minutes of music before you can use it - so I wonder if there's another version of Composer out there? Just loading PLAYWAVC before CC didn't work either...
In case anyone wants to play, I've attached the CAS file of composer companion, these are the notes for loading:
To load a taped copy:
POKE25,39:POKE26,33:POKE10016,0:CLOADM:EXEC
Now as it happens, I have a couple of copies of the Composer manual for some reason, and I'm a bit confused by the tape images uploaded here: the manual suggests it should drop straight into a menu, but even the non-Jukebox file plays a tune several minutes long before doing so.
That seems a bit odd for a utility - forcing you to listen to several minutes of music before you can use it - so I wonder if there's another version of Composer out there? Just loading PLAYWAVC before CC didn't work either...
In case anyone wants to play, I've attached the CAS file of composer companion, these are the notes for loading:
To load a taped copy:
POKE25,39:POKE26,33:POKE10016,0:CLOADM:EXEC