Thread: Dragon 32
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Old 7th Oct 2019, 8:40 pm   #5
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Default Re: Dragon 32

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Originally Posted by RogerEvans View Post
...there was some magic POKE that fiddled with the registers of the address multiplexer and ran code from RAM at double speed.
They didn't all do that - mine just used to crash I taught myself basic on one as a teenager and got so far as implementing arrays in order to move user-defined graphic objects around the screen. Can you imagine how slowly it ran! Still, it was all great preparation for Fortran 77 at university - thanks Dad, it was a big family outlay at the time.
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