Man that is some serious Dragon dedication , excellent work ! When you close your eyes to sleep at night you must see 2 green dragon screens !

Thanks a lot for the excellent series on the Dragon 32. It was a great computer on which I did a lot in programming, sound design and voice syinthesis.

Yay me for correct diagnosis of the slow dragon! Glad to be of service :)

@TheDigitalOrphanage

3 жыл бұрын

You definitely called it Julian! Thank you for the sage advice, people like you really help new Dragon users like me and you've indirectly helped raise money for the Museum of Computing too. 🙂

Ah, so you actually read the instructions for Airball, unlike myself. 😅 Great video as always, I've really enjoyed this series and seeing these Dragons being given another lease of life. Thanks so much for giving me the chance to own one of these fine machines from my ancestral homeland - and the shoutout of course!

@TheDigitalOrphanage

3 жыл бұрын

I even managed to get the spell book but I wasn't recording at the time. The boxes with arrows on can be picked up and moved one at a time.

@ctrlaltrees

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDigitalOrphanage Yes, I worked out how to pick them up but wasn't really sure what to do with them. I also found the spell book but having not read the manual I didn't really know what it was all about. I'm hoping to revisit this one and give it a proper play soon.

This was a great series, Thanks! Hope you continue to make more videos. Love your production style and presentation. Keep up the great work!

@TheDigitalOrphanage

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad you enjoyed the series. More videos will come. I also collaborated with Neil (RMC Retro) recently on a Neo Geo video.

Cor, that netbook; I wish that format survived. I loved it.

@TheDigitalOrphanage

3 жыл бұрын

I've got my old Acer Aspire One too. Wish they did a new version with a fast processor.

@MrCalldean

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDigitalOrphanage Yup, screensize matters less to me these days, as I can usually plug into a bigger screen if I'm going to somewhere for a while; I want portability - in any one (working) day I can be in four or five different buildings. I want tiiiiiiny kit. Even if I do have gorilla paws.

This has been a brilliant series to follow and has only served to increase my desire at add a Dragon to my modest collection. 😊 I'm pretty certain that your trouble shooting tips and advice will come in handy in the not-too-distant future! Smashing work in resurrecting these!😎👍

@TheDigitalOrphanage

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, that's really nice to hear Chris. Dragons are a lovely machine to work on. My advice is to get a later one with a MK II board for the best video quality, the MK I boards tend to have more obvious jail bars on screen.

@ChrissRetroCorner

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDigitalOrphanage ah I see! Thank you for the advice. I'll be sure to keep this in mind!🙏😊

That was a fun watch . I too thought Atic Attac when i saw it. Having played Atic Attac on my speccy all those years ago. And I too was draw to your video seeing that upturned Bug / Chip. 👍

@TheDigitalOrphanage

3 жыл бұрын

I feel like I've missed out, I've never played Atic Atac, so it didn't come to mind. I've heard of it but it never came out on the CPC. I need to remedy this situation!

@RcAircraft

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDigitalOrphanage Yes you should play Atic Attac . I remember when i was young i would play this game and my friend would be watching me play it to remember where the parts of the key are so i could win.

Dark Star was one of my favourite games on the Spectrum back in the day, so it was interesting to see the Dragon port. Surprisingly authentic - it even sounds the same! =)

@TheDigitalOrphanage

2 жыл бұрын

How far did you get? Tough game without the built it "cheats".

@Xoferif

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheDigitalOrphanage I finished it umpteen times, though I think you just got a screen of text when you did. It was definitely about the sense of speed you got while zipping along in the Liar that was the draw for me. =) One brilliant thing about Crystal (aka Design-Design) games was the high score chart. There were tons of hidden names and phrase that, when typed in, would be replaced with an amusing message from the game's author. Always a great moment when you discovered a new one!

@TheDigitalOrphanage

2 жыл бұрын

Ah yes I think I read about a few, some "naughty" words too.

The inverse chip was fascinating and your review of the high res Attic Attack game, sorry Alchemists Quest was awesome 👍

@TheDigitalOrphanage

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Mark, glad you enjoyed them, makes the effort worthwhile. 🙂

@TheDigitalOrphanage

3 жыл бұрын

Although I knew of Atic Atac, I've never played it as it wasn't released on the CPC, so it didn't come to mind when I played Wizards Quest. Looking at a YT video of it I can see Wizards Quest was heavily inspired by it although it looks inferior. I'll have to find some time to play Atic Atac.

Greetings from America! Wonderful video on the Dragon 32! What was that small laptop that you were using at the beginning of the video?

@TheDigitalOrphanage

3 жыл бұрын

Greetings from the UK and thank you for the kind words. That's my old Samsung Netbook (NP-N140) that just about runs Windows 10 from an upgraded SSD. It's still useful for simple tasks like playing a wave file into an old computer.

@dave4shmups

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDigitalOrphanage I wonder if you could run some distro of Linux on it?

@TheDigitalOrphanage

3 жыл бұрын

Yes I expect I could, but for all it's faults I get on ok with Windows.

I'd love to have one. If shipping wasn't so expensive to Canada I would definitely be interested

@TheDigitalOrphanage

3 жыл бұрын

Shipping prices at the moment to Canada are silly prices. One of the buyers lives in Canada and to ship direct was basically the cost of the Dragon again. They opted to have it shipped to a UK relative and pick it up when they next fly to the UK.

Well, your videos were the final straw. Ended up buying a Dragon...

I can see you use a hand made fume extractor. Do you support a video on this ?

@TheDigitalOrphanage

9 ай бұрын

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That first game is such a blatant rip off of Atic Atac!

@TheDigitalOrphanage

3 жыл бұрын

Yes I see that now. I hadn't played Atic Atac before as it wasn't on the CPC. I'm going to remedy not playing it.

@TranceTrousers

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDigitalOrphanage I used to play Atic Atac on my ZX Spectrum - awesome game! I also had a Dragon 32 later on but didn't realise it had such great looking games at the time. I remember getting a sprite program for it (Sprite Magic?!) with the intention of using it to write some games but nothing ever came of it. I don't think I had my Dragon 32 for that long before I moved onto another machine, which I think might have been an Acorn Electron. I have fond memories of all three machines :-)

@TheDigitalOrphanage

3 жыл бұрын

I never had any of those machines which is why it's been fun exploring all the machines I had only read about and seen in the shops. The Dragon's proved to be a more capable machine than I'd previously thought although I'm still glad I had a CPC.