I have a real Dragon 32. I have been reunited with Dragon Basic since Aug 2011 (after a 27 year seperation from my Dragon). What a great joy!
We all know the Basic is painfully slow. My Dragon can't handle any of the 2 speed pokes. My knowledge of Dragon Machine Code is 0%.
Before I dive into the Machine Code, can someone tell me if there is a downloadable software package that will convert my Basic programs into Machine Code? (I am hoping to enhance the execution speed). For example, the Earthquake Simulator program that I uploaded, is 100% Basic and the effects would be marvellous and the maths could be made even more complicated if the code was converted into M/Code.
I have no experience with any emulators.
I use a tape player (and a .wav player/recorder on my laptop). I am in the dark ages here, feels just like 1984, but my Dragon rules. I wanna make this baby fly - or am I dreaming the impossible dream? (I know that some tricks can help eg. calculate all the data first, then save to graphics to memory, then 12 minutes later, display the graphics... , disabling the keyboard whle calculations are done... I know that...etc).
I have great ideas but the slowness limits the complexity of what I want to achieve.
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