[Coco] Dragon ASCII save

[Ward Griffiths]

On 03/16/2005 11:26 am, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
>      Hi... I have a few games that I have permission to put on my games
> website (http://nitros9.stg.net), but the only copies that people have
> been able to send me are for the Dragon systems. So, I need a couple of
> things:
> 1) Using MESS, I can load a BASIC program for the dragon from a virtual
> cassette file, but I am not familiar with Dragon DOS as to how save it to
> disk in ASCII format (which I could then pull off of the dsk image with
> IMGTOOL and re-import it into a Coco disk image, and save the file in
> converted tokenized format. Or, is there a utility for the Coco to convert
> tokens from Dragon to Coco format?
> 2) For ML games, my understanding is that quite a few will work, but the
> keyboard mappings are different. Is there a table as to how they are
> mapped between the two machines? Does the Dragon use the same 7 bits of a
> PIA to scan the keyboard? I may be able to patch those in the code itself,
> if I knew how the mappings work.

SAVE "filename",A just like with a Color Computer, an MC-10 or most other 
8-bit Microsoft BASICs.
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