Professor Adrian Eddleston. Author of Encoder09 and Tea-Time.
Listed below are two of the e-mail's that I recently
received from Professor Adrian Eddleston. Adrian is the original author of the
excellent Encoder09 and Tea-Time for the Dragon 32. The graphics for Tea-Time
were designed by Adrian's son, Stephen Eddleston-McGrath.
Both programs are now available for download from the software pages of this site.
Stephen J Woolham
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FAO Stephen J Woolham
Dear Stephen
I recently came across your Dragon 32 T3 extension
pack. Your kind words
about Encoder09 have stimulated me to write. I wrote
Encoder09 just after
being appointed as a Consultant Physician at King's
College Hospital !! I
worked closely with Premier Microsystems in Croydon for
some time writing
the manual and further developing the software. I also
wrote the dragon game
teatime, with my son designing the graphics.
Unfortunately, as the work
increased, I had to make a choice between
computing and Medicine - and
Medicine won. I went on to become Dean of
King's, and then the first Dean of
the merged Medical Schools of Guy's King's
and St Thomas'. I retired at the
age of 60 last year, and am now working part
time as the Chairman of the
Bromley NHS Primary Care Trust. I am still a
computer enthusiast, but
haven't touched the Dragon for many years. The
emulators will almost
certainly encourage me to do so again.
I have a copy of the original manual of
Encoder09, and a copy of my source
code (poorly documented I'm afraid!!). I'm
going to go and look up the ??
instruction you mention in your
text.
Thanks again for the praise, I certainly enjoyed
writing Encoder09, and I am
pleased if people found it useful.
Professor Adrian Eddleston
Dear Stephen
I enclose a text file
reproducing 3 of the appendices to the encoder09 manual which give the monitor
and assembler command set. I would be happy for you to include my e-mail on your
Dragon website, and the text file in any zips you wish. I am also happy for you
to put Encoder09 and Teatime separately on to your web site. I am also enclosing
a cassette file of teatime, made from an original tape using coco tools, since
this also displays the loader screen (with my son's and my initials on it
- S & AFE).
One irritating point is that T3, which I agree is
the best emulator, does not give any sound output on my machine (running windows
98 with an Aureal 3D sound card and DOS driver) in a windows box or in MS-DOS
mode. MESS and Coco2 work fine for sound on this same machine. This is most
irritating since the 3 voice reproduction of the dam-busters march in the high
score screen in teatime was one of the real achievements at the time! I am using
the correct SET BLASTER command in autoexec.bat. Any
thoughts?
Adrian Eddleston
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