Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: "Steve Spiller" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics Subject: Re: Dragon 32?! Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:10:05 -0700 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 34 Message-ID: <6pima7$ep35@scea> References: <6otsjq$cv91@scea> <35B328FC.E0B64296@hinge.mistral.co.uk> <6pg28c$3ue1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <01bdb8e2$afff3660$d5e4b8c3@Angela1.intelligent-group.com> <35BCB6D9.3C210C42@ndirect.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: gateway.connext.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Alex Herbert wrote in message <35BCB6D9.3C210C42@ndirect.co.uk>... >Craig Graham wrote: > >> That's how I did a map visualisation program on the Dragon32 & BBC Micro >> (for my GCSE project 10 years ago). > >Wow, I never knew anyone else with a Dragon 32 except me! I've still got >mine. I was coding in BASIC in those days. Remember POKE &HFFD7,0 (the double >clock poke)? Just think, we had to put up with 2-character variable names. > >Anyway, I moved onto the Sinclair QL after the Dragon. Did anyone else ever >have one of those? Well, being a US citizen (or Yank, since this is an SCEE group), I didn't have a Dragon, but I did have it's (pseudo) twin. The TRS-80 Color Computer, or CoCo. :) It started out as a CoCo 1 (gray case, chicklet keyboard) with 4k of ram. When I finally gave it away it had 64k, a disk drive, multi-pak interface, editor assembler, orchestra 90, speech-sound pak, the works! It was my launching pad into the world of software development, even if it was BASIC, when I was about 10. The best day was when I threw out the cassette player for my disk drive. Oh, the speed! *sniff* *sniff* Now I miss the little bugger... :) -Steve > >Herbs > >