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Wav recordings of the above games........
Utopia:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/99ldbr
Spy against spy:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/5ou8wp

Spy should be copied twice- I have checked the wavs on a real D64, copying wav onto CD-R onto tape. Spy against spy was a bit iffy on one copy - dreaded I/O errors - better on the second. I have included both.

Utopia loads with
CLEAR 10:CLOADM:EXEC

spy against spy loads with
CLEAR 20:CLOADM

Both come with spectacularly bad packaging (printed sheets) that I will need to photograph, as spy against spy is rather complicated, being a genuine two player game (i.e. played at once on a spit screen). I also need to provide crazy foota 3's packaging for competeness.

Utopia plays sound at the start, and then the game starts in silence. The infamous flickering noise that originates from the joystick starts once you hit something. It is probably the only shoot em up I have come up against where the bloody bullets you shoot are invisible. It is also very difficult.

I think these are the last of the red coded ones on the google doc I have access to original copies. I will move on to yellow ones over the summer.

Here is the documentation for the above titles, and for crazy foota 3, previously uploaded a couple of weeks back. Sorry they are just jpegs taken with a camera.
http://www.sendspace.com/filegroup/hIpm ... 2Byso8nyTM

Old CAS in zips here: http://www.6809.org.uk/tmp/da/dragon_originals/

Just the instructions: http://www.6809.org.uk/tmp/da/instructions/

Unfortunately I don't have dumps of the late Dragonfire releases for the Dragon (with not-really-very-turboload), but the CoCo ports are in here: http://www.6809.org.uk/tmp/da/coco_ports/ - in particular the gzipped WAV files.

Not sure I ever figured out how you refuel in Utopia.

Yeah, me neither.
Both releases were great, up to a point- Utopia was too hard to start with. Any game where you could die inside a second left me cold. The graphics were good, scrolling smooth. But it was so much effort, and you just died and had to go back to the start. Utopia and Spy were both examples of games that 3-5 years earlier would have been the best thing since sliced bread. But by 1988 the only people making games were devotees of the Dragon- so the competition was much, much harder. I have always wondered what the hell Microdeal and Dragon Data were doing in 1982/3 releasing utter garbage like Scarfman, Storm, Adventure Trilogy, Storm Arrows etc. Had they churned out titles like Cashman, Shocktrooper, Touchstone from the very start the Dragon would have had a lot more respect and sales. And of course, had the cosmos actually been green rather than black.......