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That's him ..... how could I forget Graham Chapman ....... !

The sketch was originally written for the British television comedy series At last the 1948 show by the show's four writer-performers: <Link hidden. Register for free to see this link!>, <Link hidden. Register for free to see this link!>, <Link hidden. Register for free to see this link!>, and <Link hidden. Register for free to see this link!>. The original performance of the sketch by the four creators is one of the surviving sketches from the programme and can be seen on the At Last the 1948 Show DVD
Monty python performed it during there live shows from 1974

Yes, I read that. I'm not sure I believe it but I'd need to find the DVD insert to remind myself.

I just realised we hijacked your thread a bit here redden137 .... sorry about that, us old farts like to reminisce, so to get it back on topic this was another of my early computers the Dragon 32.



Spot will probably remember this, as it was made in Wales, by Dragon Data, a subsidiary of Mettoy.

I played Donkey Kong on this till I was asleep.

WHERE!!! did you get that from philthomas i only played that twice, both times when in wales visiting relatives ha ha just where you said they came from

They were available everywhere as far as I recall. I seem to remember buying mine in Dixons in London.
It was a great machine similar to the Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer at the time. It came with 32mb Ram and you loaded programs and games in by cassette tape. Also had a cut down version of M$ Basic built in on a ROM. No monitor, it just plugged in the TV.

I didnt think they where thay wide spread and thinking about it my cousin had a dragon 64 not a 32 but i may well be wrong and i never had one as i had the commodore 64 plus 4 at the time waiting half an hour for games to load from a tape

I think the company went bust fairly quickly, so after that, they had a bit of a cult following.
A lot of the Tandy stuff, games, hardware etc., was compatible, so although Dragon Data was gone .... the machine lived on.

Cut down BASIC? I thought the Dragon was native Forth.

No matey it definitely had M$ Basic see <Link hidden. Register for free to see this link!>

I remember buying the Dragon magazine and typing in those listings in Basic ..... only to find out there were typeset errors and they published the corrections the following month lol

I never did a Dragon column, mine were for the Apple and BBC. I tested any listings I printed, too. I even corrected some.

There was only really one game I printed that was unique. It was a cave, a small figure you controlled and a bigger blue monster. When you ran it ran after. When you changed direction it changed to cut you off. It inexorably got closer until it caught you. The unique aspect was that the writer had deliberately refused to give you a gun so you always got eaten. I really liked printing that one.

I found what I'd been thinking about - the Forth micro was the Jupiter Ace, not the Dragon.

Wow yeah .... I can just remember that one .... never owned one, but remember seeing it advertised. Just looka t thoose rubber keys eh, just like the Speccy.

Sinclair was notorious for that. Hardly any of the programs in their magazines were error free. They would have to release a second print each month just in order to correct the errors... so it never happend and you had to mutter on and hope you could sort the problems out yourself.

I have a probably false memory of one of the magazines selling bar-code readers and printing bar-codes by each listing so you could scan them in like you were on a shopping spree.