Home Computing Weekly


Dream

Author: R.E.
Publisher: Dragon Data
Machine: Dragon 32

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #43

This is an unusual package containing, as far as I can see, two unrelated programs in machine code.

One program is essentially a word processor or screen text editor which can be used to create letters, files, books etc, and the other is a full feature 6809 assembler.

The editor has facilities for creating new text or loading or merging old text.

There are 13 cursor or screen control commands and 25 text handling commands which gives a fairly reasonable word processor.

Many of the more subtle and fancy controls are omitted but there is enough to be useful to the home user or a very small business.

The assembler is efficient and well documented, but does not explain or teach machine code programming; this is a whole book subject anyway. Object code may be saved separately on tape.

The two programs link up insofar as files of data can be created by the editor and read from your machine code program - could be useful to a machine code programmer writing adventures! It can be used in conjunction with the Dreambug monitor and debug program.

R.E.

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