I had a Dragon too, loved it despite its limitations. There was a great type in program in Dragon User that allowed you to switch into one of the graphics modes

I had a Dragon too, loved it despite its limitations. There was a great type in program in Dragon User that allowed you to switch into one of the graphics modes and type and run BASIC programs in there. Most impressive. (I remember 12 year old me bending my fathers ear clean off waxing lyrical on a long car journey about how clever the program was and why didn't they do this in the first place and maybe the Dragon could have competed with the Spectrum... not being computer minded he must have thought I was bananas, but he humoured me!) And for the other infamous limitation (no lower case characters in text mode) late in its life Dragon User had another program that set up a semigraphics mode which defined new characters made up from the the individual horizontal scanlines of the standard character set and was able to cobble together serviceable lower-case characters. It then patched the OS to use this mode with the new characters, to all purposes creating an upper and lower case mode. Witchcraft!