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The independent Dragon magazine April 1987 Contents Editorial Letters 2 Expert 's Arcade Arena 16 SO! A Dragon owner wins Incentive Contributors and user groups ... Amessage Maps for Tanglewood 's Castle Sc hark and Software's second Moon Cresta com trom Buzz Software ... Epson update ... yet Dwarf Dive. the first part ot TotalEclipse, and petition, in the face of massed Spec , more on Fire Force ... About Analyzer ... and the last part of Dragon Games round-up. cy and Amstrad owners as well as many more. fellow Dragoneers. That 'II tell'em the High Noon, 2 2 Dragon's still here. Well done News Desk Andrew Hill of Gwent. 4 Jonathan McGowan presents a high speed I hopeto be seeing some ofyou (all Dragoneer wins king size game ... Pulser machine code shoot-out for two players, of you would be just fine, but OU has Software list ... London 6909 Show ... Com complete with cactus cover and pusense change address .. Direct mail buckboard . readers as far away as Australia and dilemma. the USA, so I'll settle for 'some' this time) at the London 6809 Show on Winners and Losers 25 the morning of March 28th, acts of Dragon Soft 6 Gordon Lee goes over solutions to the God permitting. But, like any other Tanglewood is the best arcade/adventure November competi tion, which involved nightmare, lvanishinapuffofsmoke game for ages ... Readers and writers firing simulation . at noon, so come early ifyouwantto away wi th Fire Force. nag me about anything. Those who are too far north to Adventure Trail 27 make the London show should Coco/Dragon Basic • Hints and help and an exc hange of remember the Ossett Show on 11th Converter 8 addresses on many titles, map for Ring of April. Details of both shows inside. Ru dy Duyck describes how to alter Tandy Darkness. and an announcement: soon Mr. Thanks to ottier contributors and Colour Computer Basicfor theOragon,with Gerrard will not be exactly as we have editors, including Philip Beed of a machine code program . always known him. Read on. NDUG, who wrote to me about last month's editorial. Dragon Answers 15 Competition 29 And who else spotted the deliberate mistake in the March Let Inverting the screen in '64 mode ... Incorpor Go round and round a dartboard to make a ating the time and date in a database ... Text set of cubes, and win Tanglewood. And the ters Page? Well, I suggest you go compression for quiz game writing ... Con fi nal installment of the Recreational back and read It again then. See you necting the joystick port to a keypad. Mathematics Glossary. at the Show. Telephone number ll•Mglng Editor How to eubmlt artk:lff (All departments} PETER WORLOCK 437-4343 Publlahlng Director The quality of the material we can publish in Dragon User each month will. 10 a very great ex· Editor JENNY IRELAND tent depend on the quality of the discoveries that HELEN ARMSTRONG Sub9crtptlons you can make with your Dragoo. The Dragon Production Editor UK £14 for 12 issues computer was launched on to the market with a BARBORA HAJEK Overseas(surface)£20for12issues powerful version of Basic. but with very poor ISSN 0265-177. Telex: 296275 documentation. Dragon User, 12113 Little Newport Street, Articles which are submitted to Dragon User London WC2H 7PP for publication should not be more than 3000 Edltorilll Sec1Wtary US address: cJo Business Press International. words long. All submissions should be typed. ANNE MARIE O'DWYER 205 East 42nd St, New York, NY 10017 Please leave wide margins and a double space Published by Scot Press Ud. between each line. Programs should. whenever AdvertlHtnent lllln.ger If) Scot Press 1987 l)OS&ible, be computer printed on plain white RODNEY WOODLEY Typesetting and Production by Artext Limited, paper and be accompanied by a tape of the Admlnl9tl'ltlon LondonNW1. program. GERALDINE SMYTH Printed by Headley Brothers Ltd . Ashford. Kent We cannot guarantee to return every submit· Regiseered 81 lhe Poet Clffice as a newspaper. led article or program, so please keep a copy. II llllrlc9tlng llan.ger Oregon and its logo are trademarks of youwanttohaveyourprogramreturnedyoumust HELEN PERRY Eurohard ltd. include a stamped addressed envelope. Letters ware to anyone who writes to Beat the us telling us what they would like to see for the Dragon and Tandy. jungle I would also like to hear FOR those of us who own Fire from anybody from America Force by Ouickbeam , and find wishing to swap games, infor that they are getting frustrated mation, etc. for the Dragon 32 by the fact that they cannot get and Tandy 64 computers. past the 'crack troop' infested S. J. Goodwin jungle, I have found a way to go Buzz Software on to the next phase and miss 15 St. Stephen Road out the jungle. Penketh, Nr. Warrington 1) Make sure that there is Cheshire, WA5 2AN only one joystick plugged in! I nNld with ...........Mmd1 2) Once the game has load cameeto .. ancl.lhM ... grCKapt Md newala...,. .. ed , press the fire button so that edition °' Dnlgon ,.,, Md partlcularty the Edllorflll. bealltheDrllgon the computer shows the select haonofllr. One problem On the brtgtlllr colour screen. Then press 'A'. ..nou. llde. within the 'amateur' publl I DU raquires Boost 3) This gets into the don'tdoubtthal catlona I myaeH know ii great extent ol but authorisation code screen. as a a article8. there enough morale Then press 'C'. lack °' articles. Newlletterl surely n such as Dragon Monthly, Dragon U&erl to fMd any 4) This will give you the pass Dragon's 1111/ etc. even even publication with article8. The IN the January 1987 edition of code screen. Using the myself with the Drag Mag time hu come when we ALL Dragon User the Expert said joystick to move around type (Presael: 100110021 . quick "And so the new year dawns. out "IMFTC" with no spaces. must ~ with our plugl) depend heavily on beloved hefptng .-y bringing with it new hope Then go on to the vertical micro. readers' artlcle8, 8'c. It would (unless you own a Dragon, in arrow. ~tocon which case you 've probably appear from )'OUr editorial tlnue Ila work ... I•1ptng the 5) This then catapults you completely given up hope)." that )'OU wish all articles, etc. Dragon.uv.t past the jungle. This is damaging to the morale to becentred on Dragon UNr. Simon.Jona Your readers might like to SufelytheM smaller publl of the Dragon community. I note that if the Break key is 31 Collr'8 cmlone haw • plfice. Sup *•'*Hetlow certainly have not given up pressed during a normal hope and feel very optimistic poee DU ~ comes &a.CM1t4EN game, before they run out of provided damaging and men , they will be sent back to HIMngworli9ClwltlM1•1ur Md knowtadge In the mindless suggestions are kept the beginn ing with eight men publc8lb•m,..er.1....... Dr..- world ..... .. out of the view of Dragon users. but with their old score to mnd YD'"' co11oem. It lllllf often not ......_. ID DU, I would like to see an apology recontinue where- they left off --·..,....toknow .............. who printed by the Expert . last time - and so to build up ......................... ...... ...... Anyone who regularly their score. to°""........ ..... ... watches BBC 2's Micro Live And a note of appreciation . If - pfableln to or..._•ll•nDICMllU will notice that the Dragon is it weren't for people like the Ex .......I aa.nd br ._ month.. NCI to ._thlll DU llllght always left out of the reports. I pert, the country would grind to adltorlal, but perbllpa I OM wmtto_ ........... have written to them complain a halt. Well, Dragon owners .......... thinking ....... ..,..aped. ing about this several times but would, anyway. ""COll'llW'lta de9rer ....... w....1 ........... .. I have never received a reply. Conrad DnlgcNI Claef' ,_ minute not ........ ahoulct etop There must be thousands of 4 Rawston Down Road ..uurc:ee OOftll*9d to conlrlbutlng Olher Dragon Users who watch this. Blandford ...... compullr publlca ......... but that they and if the majority of them Dorset tlona, but • ._ • otr lhould OOI..... whelMr wrote to the BBC and com DT11 BAG culldlon ..aly......, tlw'I their ... OM be plained about it then I think it .., other °""°" publoa ....qled tar DNfon would convince those involved flon, and ..... to ........ Uw"a N•dtnHp ........ that the Dragon is alive and .... ....,...... of ........ ........ ....,to kicking. Buzz .... Wltllf'8 br oon their own I Finally, for the benefit of the trlbutlng, ..... ........,, don,.. tD Editor, Mike Gerrard and all discounts tottmellartato ......•llv ._. On ...... those at Microdeal who can't lng. Thia .. to~ lntrJ, read my address, it is below. DUE to lack of support, and benefit: ..,.......... Donald Morrison admittedly through our own mullnumeoopetor .... 72 Diriebught Road lack of organisation, we have ..................... Inverness decided to use the months up ...... boclr of ....... Scotland IV2 3QT to July 1987 to re-organise. We fnllnOllsNl ...... And• will however be attending the .... • ......, ......, of PS I'm having trouble trying to computer show at Ossett. good oonllltlMllOl'9. get speed racer to work proper West Yorkshire on 11th April. ben•O...,...,..,..... ly. Can anyone help? Also does We will be demonstrating all ......., ..........IOM anyone have any pokes for our software, including our which II 8- to twn dawn Downland or the code to ac new Tandy range. We hope to tivate the cheat function in improve our services to the ............ Stone Raider ? Dragon market in the future . been-- BuzzSoftwareareofferinga 10 .......... ............. WE asked The Expert for his per cent reduction on our soft- comments, and he says that 2 Dragon User April 1987 This 1s the chance to air your views - send your tips.