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Found an old box of tapes in the loft with some programs I typed in from Dragon User when I was a kid.

Hi Stewart,
thanks a lot for sharing!
cheers!
pere

Cool

I remember being taken with how the Expert System program worked.

Writer's not what I was expecting - I think I typed in a later hi-res thing called 64-COL (which I then patched up the wazoo to make it sit in high RAM, locate the video screen there, etc.)

sixxie wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 6:58 am I think I typed in a later hi-res thing called 64-COL

Ah yes, I remember that. (Dec 1987). I typed in a lot of stuff but I've no idea what happened to it all. Perhaps one day when I'm too old to come up with new stuff I'll have a go at OCR'ing some old favourites.

btw I should have said thanks for your DU bibtex: it makes very short work of tracking down articles

sorchard wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 9:59 am

sixxie wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 6:58 am I think I typed in a later hi-res thing called 64-COL

Ah yes, I remember that. (Dec 1987). I typed in a lot of stuff but I've no idea what happened to it all. Perhaps one day when I'm too old to come up with new stuff I'll have a go at OCR'ing some old favourites.

I had the original program typed in, so this morning I quickly transcribed the article and the - incredibly bug-ridden - character editor listing: http://www.6809.org.uk/file/dragon/utilities/

btw I should have said thanks for your DU bibtex: it makes very short work of tracking down articles

Cheers! I'm finding it quite useful myself

sixxie wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 10:14 am I quickly transcribed the article and the - incredibly bug-ridden - character editor listing

crikey you type faster than I can read

heh the character editor could certainly use some tlc. The end of the program seems to have been lost by Dragon User, could just be a missing RETURN statement, but as you say, that's not the only problem

Brings back happy memories of playing around with these programs.