KNIGHT COMPUTER SERVICES
Dragon 32/64 Software
1988-1990's

Back in the late 1980's and early 1990's Stephen Knight ran a small software business as "Knight Computer Services" producing software for the Dragon 32 & Dragon 64 micros.  The software and some archive material will be made available through this site. Our own software from the time (we had no connection with "Knight Software" producing software such as Sprite Magic) is available as virtual disc files for use with Dragon emulators, and a collection of games and other discs from the time too.

The screen shots below are at actual size, pixel for pixel, I used it on a 14" Ferguson TV. We had 256x192 pixels with 1 bit black and white in the highest resolution screen to work with.

Software formatted on Dragon DOS virtual disks (VDK) suitable for use with dragon emulators are linked to below and at our virtual discs archive.

PUBLISHERDownload VDK Download manual



      Key Mappings

      When using Publisher especially the following keyboard mappings may come in handy - some parts of Publisher are more easily used in PC keyboard mode, others in Dragon mode:

DRAGON
PC DRAGON II
Clear (used as Control Key in Publisher)
Home
Shift @ (used to delete in Publisher)
Control S (pause)
Shift Clear
\
Break
Esc
Shift Up
^
Shift Down
[
Shift Left
???
Shift Right
]


Dragon Graphics Studio & DGS Plus




Printer Control FontsDownload VDK



Text Screen PrinterDownload VDK


Text Screen Printer was a simple utility that could be used to print out the 32 x 16 character text screens of the Dragon together with shaded block graphics (64 x 32 resolution!) depending upon colour to the 'standard' printer of the time - Epson compatible 9-pin black and white dot-matrix.


Links


The Dragon 32 / 64 was a home computer from the early 1980's which is the first computer I owned.  It was based on the powerful Motorola 6809 processor and was ahead of it's time though let down by the poor video hardware and the fact everything else was based on the Z80 processor.

I wrote software for this computer in 6809 assembly language toward the end of the 1980's and MS-Basic which I sold under the name KCS.  Some of this is still available to run under the current Emulators and can be downloaded from the KCS Dragon Software link below together with magazine reviews and my library of games discs.