Dump Out 3 is yet another screen dump ROM for the BBC which deals with all graphics modes (0, 1, 2, 4, 5, 7 and 8 claims the manual), and incorporates a fast text only dump.

Dump Out 3 will work with printers from Seikosha, Epson, NEC, Shinwa, Star and Tandy and it allows you to use mode 7 as a (chunky) graphics screen, using two new OSWORD calls within the ROM. These commands are to read and plot mode 7 graphics pixels.

At this point in the manual, the reading becomes rather clouded and will, I'm sure, put some people off.

The speed of the dump is something else. It is the slowest graphics and text dump (in machine code) that I have seen to date! The whole ROM is just a scaled down version of Computer Concepts' Printmaster, but with mode 7 plotting added.

If you haven't got a printer dump on ROM, then this is worth considering along with Printmaster. Check which features of each ROM suit your needs best and make your decision based on that.