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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.

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

[philthomas]

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.

[Desertfish]

Originally Posted by philthomas

No matey it definitely had M$ Basic see here

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

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.

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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.

[Desertfish]

Really...! Those never made it into Belgium... Seems you guys had all the goodies and the crap was being send over the water for the daft continental kids to get frustrated over...

[zerocool]

I had and still have in perfect working order a commodore c64, still got loads of games for it, can't beat dizzy. What I find amusing tho is the fact if anyone owned a tape loading games machine it would take ages to load and 70% of the time the games would crash before finishing loading, we would just accept it, rewind the tape and start again. But now we all moan if our pc's take longer than 30 seconds to boot up

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Originally Posted by zerocool

now we all moan if our pc's take longer than 30 seconds to boot up

My still-working BBC B still goes from cold to having the cursor patiently waiting inside the word processor in under a second. Why Microsoft can't even try to do the same baffles me.

[redden137]

Guess you all remember this one

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I've got that on my wrist watch.