[Coco] Unleashing the Dragon: native HDB-DOS/SuperIDE for Dragon32

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

It's strange but everything runs faster on Tano. The game opens before you
hear the key click!

Also the games are speed up. What could it be ? Faster interrupt routines ?


On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) <
retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Thanks to the extensive work and the vacation time of Tormod Volden, now
> we have HDB-DOS running natively on Dragon32/64. I just helped him to find
> the last few bugs testing on a real tano with superide.
>
> It's kinda strange, you run RSDOS on a Dragon but it works as the video
> shows:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ACnIQ-gHk&feature=youtu.be
>
> I'm using my coco CF card image so lots of stuff just don't work or have
> the garbled keyboard as you see the NitrOS-9.
>
> Also all basic programs must be saved in ASCII on a coco and then loaded
> and saved on Dragon. I flashed the new ROM on superIDE bank 0, so I just
> change a switch to plug it on a dragon or coco.
>
> Didn't test but Tormod has a working DW for it too.
>
> Hey Mark, you should consider doing a last batch of superIDEs. You retired
> this great product without notice! Or at least outsource the PCB production
> hehe :)
>
> Make a retirement product limited edition so you can charge more for this
> ;)
>
> Serious, Dragon people will bug you from now and your brand new next-gen
> device wont be dragon compatible from day 0 :(
>
> --
> Long live the CoCo
>



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