Looking for a Dragon or CoCo game not already in the archive - Then request it here and hopefully it will either be uploaded to the archive or another member can upload it to this forum.
At the risk of sounding a bit thick; should I put line numbers with those commands?
The Dragon is a new system to me. I noticed that ? is short for print, the same as CBM Basic V2.0 (also by Microsoft), does that also extend to things like POKE being P shift O? etc etc. I only ask as I haven't yet had a chance to try it, and I have to pack the Dragon away after each time I've used it, so it's not set up at the moment.
The first PEEK returned 253, the second PEEK returned 0. So it looks like something is wrong then I think.
I worked out that the CBM basic P shift O etc doesn't work on the Dragon. Is there a way of shortening the commands? I know Acorn equipment used the first letters and then . For example O. L. was OLD LIST.
Is there a hope that this Dragon 32 could be fixed?
Commodore wrote:Still nothing will load. It gets so far through the process and then the cursor freezes, the .wav file ends, and the screen does not change.
I tried Chuckie Egg, Airball and Frogger.
I think I have found the problem though - BAD RAM.
When I type ?MEM, I get 8492, which is rather lower than I was expecting, just about 8K.
I thought I'd try this as it was reminiscent of when a 48K Spectrum I had suddenly decided it would be a 16K Spectrum. The good news is the Spectrum was fixed, I don't suppose a Dragon is quite such an easy proposition. Shame if that is the case.
It would be good if anybody could confirm my diagnosis, and maybe suggest a Dragon Doctor.
Just a quick post to let everyone know that the above topic of the broken Dragon 32 has now been continued in this thread.