Date   : Sat, 17 Jun 1989 21:23:00 EST
From   : "C'est ma vie." <JSHIN%HAMPVMS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: Frustrated...

Hi,

Could you bear to put up with my cries here, please?

I just finished downloading, uudecoding, and unarchiving all the items
in the PD:<cpm.draco> directory of the SIMTEL.  I was really, really
excited to do this becuase this was the only compiler set that even
promised to be a good one - with documentation and all that.

I (actually, my QX-10 and the dormitory phone line) spent the whole
day yesterday and today transfering DRACO-2 and 3.  I had to write a
program that will filter out Mail and Send (Tell) messages from my
UUencoded text (I usually use ED to do this, but the file was too big
and ED is a compulsive backer-upper).  So I sit down and say, how
about an hour or two relaxing hours of games, eh?

It didn't work.  I have a QX-10 which has a subset of Televideo 920
terminal command set.  I configured the "SET" files accordingly,.  All
of the demo programs worked - pretty pictures - but all but two of the
games simply warm-booted out.

Question: IS IT possible that CP/M exits transient program because a
special character is entered through the console?  One of the games
that worked with TVI-920 definition refused to work with my customized
terminal definition.

It's about time I got a real fast Modem and a real Kermit.. I can't
take this any more (Rogue and Z80-MR are the only ones taken from
SIMTEL that satisfied me - yet I bought 100 diskies thinking that I
will find tons of exciting stuff!).

Then again, maybe I should quit networking and become a Hermit programmer...

Has anyone here had any experience (positive, I hope) with DRACO?
Does anyone know how I may contact Chris Gray (the DRACO's creator)?
Is his Alberta address still valid?

I want to be sure I am on firm grounds before I really take on using
this - I don't have much time between my two summer jobs and an
academic project...

Thank you...
                                John Shin