Masterstroke II
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 9:03 am
Just hoping someone might have a copy of this utility programme, which I spent many happy hours developing in my spare time and of course kept a copy and put it somewhere safe that I haven't seen it for 20 years !!!
Reading this site just brings back so many memories of endless fun, programming the fantastic 6809 processor, such a dream to work with. Before the days of assemblers for the Dragon32 I was always programming directly in machine code, but the result was always fast.
Finished up using flex on the Dragon 64 with the Compusense Plus board and, I recall, a plugin graphics board which provided a large number of sprites, enough for me to develop a pretty good pacman clone. My greatest personal moment was developing a full word processing programme for the + board 80 column display, complete with spell checker, all under 10k (the dictionary was held on floppy disk, but slooow). Unfortunately there were just not enough +board users to make these a viable commercial proposition, so the results of all this effort just gathered dust. But the fun was in the development.
Also used to modify a large number of clock boards for friends and patched the flex boot to read automatically on boot.
Anyway I digress, sorry to ramble on, just to say stumbled across this site purely by accident a few days ago and can't keep off it since re-reading the back issues of Dragon User !!
Keep up the great work.
Cheers
Neil Perks
Reading this site just brings back so many memories of endless fun, programming the fantastic 6809 processor, such a dream to work with. Before the days of assemblers for the Dragon32 I was always programming directly in machine code, but the result was always fast.
Finished up using flex on the Dragon 64 with the Compusense Plus board and, I recall, a plugin graphics board which provided a large number of sprites, enough for me to develop a pretty good pacman clone. My greatest personal moment was developing a full word processing programme for the + board 80 column display, complete with spell checker, all under 10k (the dictionary was held on floppy disk, but slooow). Unfortunately there were just not enough +board users to make these a viable commercial proposition, so the results of all this effort just gathered dust. But the fun was in the development.
Also used to modify a large number of clock boards for friends and patched the flex boot to read automatically on boot.
Anyway I digress, sorry to ramble on, just to say stumbled across this site purely by accident a few days ago and can't keep off it since re-reading the back issues of Dragon User !!
Keep up the great work.
Cheers
Neil Perks