Posts by csn

Coding with dad on the Dragon 32

Thank you too. She is rather 'visual', but once I started to introduce sound, colour and games she was hooked. I am currently trying to get her to grasp variables, and when she does - well that is also algebra sorted.

Nice words, thank you. I am also grateful that when I did eventually switch up to PC, I did so in the DOS and Windows days, where it was essential to know your command line from your mouse. Still stands me in good stead today.

Re: Ah - memories...

I seem to recall getting across the river with 0.1 Small Boats. I will have to try again :-)

Re: Funny how the comments barely respond to the article

All true, thank you, though at least on the Dragon I also get to re-live my childhood playing Quest :-)

Re: How HOW **HOW**

Yes, this is a question of mine. We have an old TV that has a coax input and so supports the Dragon,. but I really want a way to Output our Atari 2600 to our projector. We're talking COMBAT on a 96" screen :-)

I'll post it on worldofdragon.org

Re: DASM

Yes, go for it. Look up The DRAGON Archive / worldofdragon.org.

I resurrected an old tape recorder to load a couple of things but actually you can play / save WAV's from a PC. Plenty of WAV's on said site.

Boot time < 1 second.

Yes I agree, you have expressed that really rather well. Within a few minutes we had simulated a dice game and I spent much of the day showing her some basic.

We reviewed some other coding sites and they want to teach HTML. I'm not saying this is a bad thing, but teaching a 7 year old BASIC will give immediate gratification, and it's fun.

I was of course delighted with the boot time of around, oooo, 0.5 seconds!

Apologies to the Welsh.

Hi, as the OP / contributor I wish to apologise. I did in fact realise the Dragon was made in Wales. When I fired it up last week I was very pleased to see the words 'Made In Britain' on the bottom. I think it was my numb brain that translated this into 'Made In England'. I see the article has been edited though as to avoid a rebellion.

Has Steve Jobs killed the consumer hard disk industry?

What!?

This is the biggest load of drivel I have read for a long time.