This is maybe old news for some, but while looking for something else I discovered most issues of Your Computer are scanned and available in the big brother archive.org: http://archive.org/details/your-computer-magazine
This was one of the few magazines I could get hold of in my childhood, and a source for hours and hours of typing in Dragon listings. Maybe we can make some kind of index of its Dragon articles?
For instance:
Dragon Explorer - http://archive.org/stream/your-computer ... 1/mode/2up
6809 Dragon Express - http://archive.org/stream/your-computer ... 2/mode/1up
Sky Shield - http://archive.org/stream/your-computer ... 4/mode/1up
Dragon 64 (review) - http://archive.org/stream/your-computer ... 9/mode/2up
The Wall - http://archive.org/stream/your-computer ... 0/mode/1up
Lower Case - http://archive.org/stream/your-computer ... 2/mode/1up
Dragon Interceptor - http://archive.org/stream/your-computer ... 3/mode/2up
Soft Keys - http://archive.org/stream/your-computer ... 5/mode/2up
Hi-Res Colour (Frogsy) - http://archive.org/stream/your-computer ... 1/mode/2up
Convoy - http://archive.org/stream/your-computer ... 5/mode/2up
Sprites - http://archive.org/stream/your-computer ... 4/mode/1up
Gobbler - http://archive.org/stream/your-computer ... 3/mode/2up
Editor and Assembler - http://archive.org/stream/your-computer ... 7/mode/2up
Dragon Kart - http://archive.org/stream/your-computer ... 1/mode/2up
Dragon Animator - http://archive.org/stream/your-computer ... 6/mode/1up
Snaky - http://archive.org/stream/your-computer ... 9/mode/1up
Dragon Forth - http://archive.org/stream/your-computer ... 0/mode/1up
Disco Lights - http://archive.org/stream/your-computer ... 4/mode/1up
Dragon Files - http://archive.org/stream/your-computer ... 4/mode/1up
Tanks - http://archive.org/stream/your-computer ... 9/mode/2up
Graphs and Statistics - http://archive.org/stream/your-computer ... 4/mode/1up
Screen Expander - http://archive.org/stream/your-computer ... 0/mode/1up
Your Computer magazine online
Your Computer magazine online
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I might have typed this in all those years ago. I will have to check if I still have it on tape. And the Flight Simulator I definitely have on tape because I couldn't face typing it all in so I bought the cassette, plus I made a CAS file of the program many moons ago (will upload if I haven't already).tormod wrote:Dragon Kart
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I remember typing in "Gobbler" from above. It must have been the largest blob I ever entered. More than 6 KB.
Before anyone start typing in from those PDFs I have so far found Convoy, Forth, The Wall, Editor and Assembler, Frogsy and Gobbler on my tapes. I will post CAS files as I go through them.
Before anyone start typing in from those PDFs I have so far found Convoy, Forth, The Wall, Editor and Assembler, Frogsy and Gobbler on my tapes. I will post CAS files as I go through them.
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Dragon Forth by B.Watson. From Your Computer July 1984. Comes in two files FORTH (program) and FWORDS (base word definitions).
It seems that I made an autorun loader, so both files are M/L. The copyright notice on the loader splash screen clearly only covers the loader itself
EDIT: The autoloader code is at the end of the BASIC program, so I guess my copyright notice simply covers the splash screen itself Must have felt like a real professional sprinkling my own copyright statements on programs that I typed in
It seems that I made an autorun loader, so both files are M/L. The copyright notice on the loader splash screen clearly only covers the loader itself
EDIT: The autoloader code is at the end of the BASIC program, so I guess my copyright notice simply covers the splash screen itself Must have felt like a real professional sprinkling my own copyright statements on programs that I typed in
- Attachments
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- FWORDS.CAS
- Base word definitions
- (1.63 KiB) Downloaded 350 times
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- FORTH.CAS
- Dragon Forth by B.Watson (BASIC but wrapped in a M/L autorun loader)
- (7.46 KiB) Downloaded 363 times
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Convoy by Vince Cockett. From Your Computer April 1984.
- Attachments
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- CONVOY.cas
- BASIC
- (83.3 KiB) Downloaded 369 times
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The Wall by T.Fiers. From Your Computer January 1984. Two parts, BASIC loader/launcher and M/L program.
- Attachments
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- WALL.CAS
- M/L routines
- (2.23 KiB) Downloaded 349 times
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- THEWALL.CAS
- Loader/main program (BASIC). Loads "WALL".
- (2.53 KiB) Downloaded 350 times
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Gobbler (Revenge of PAC MAN) by Tom F. A. Fiers. From Your Computer May 1984.
Two parts, first PACSCRN, then PACMAN:
Two parts, first PACSCRN, then PACMAN:
Code: Select all
PCLEAR8:CLEAR100,26000:CLOADM:CLOADM:EXEC26000
- Attachments
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- PACMAN.CAS
- Main (M/L)
- (7.29 KiB) Downloaded 364 times
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- PACSCRN.CAS
- Loader/launcher (M/L)
- (3.6 KiB) Downloaded 362 times
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Frogsy by Vince Cockett. From Hi-Res Colours article in Your Computer March 1984. Three parts, CLOAD and RUN the first BASIC part to load the other M/L parts.
- Attachments
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- FROGSY3.CAS
- Picture (M/L)
- (6.67 KiB) Downloaded 358 times
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- FROGSY2.CAS
- M/L routines
- (1.26 KiB) Downloaded 343 times
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- FROGSY.CAS
- BASIC
- (4.8 KiB) Downloaded 338 times
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I have a question about creating new words with FORTH.CAS. After load and run I follow what I thought was a standard Forth approach and enter:Re: Your Computer magazine online
Postby tormod » Sat Oct 05, 2013 12:08 pm
Dragon Forth by B.Watson. From Your Computer July 1984. Comes in two files FORTH (program) and FWORDS (base word definitions).
It seems that I made an autorun loader, so both files are M/L. The copyright notice on the loader splash screen clearly only covers the loader itself
>: TEST ( with a space between the ':' and 'TEST' then press return to continue the word definition on the next lines)
> BAD LINE ( comes up as an error)
The only way a word has been accepted is by entering on one line:
>:TEST; ( with ';' to terminate and no spaces). I had expected that I could have entered the rest of the word definition on the following lines with a final line terminating it with a ';'.
The command *VLIST shows the word added to the bottom of the list but as 'TEST;' i.e. with the semi-colon, to show 42 words in total.
I've examined the BASIC code but still can't figure out how to create a new word. Any ideas please?