[Coco] Buying a Dragon from California Digital - Has anyone?

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

there is no RGB output. Only composite and RF.


Luis Felipe Antoniosi



On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net>
wrote:

> 1. It is BASIC sourcecode compatible. The tokens are different, so you
> have to save the program as ASCII, then load it into the Dragon. Binary
> programs are compatible except the keyboard matrix is different, so you
> will have to use different keys. Some programs have been patched for the
> Dragon. There are websites with lots of Dragon software.
>
> 2. Coco disk controllers will work, though you will need a patched version
> of DragonDOS to work with it.
>
> 3. There is a Dragon version of Drivewire. Tormod Volden would be the
> expert on that.
>
> 4. The Dragon has a nicer keyboard, RGB and Composite output built-in, a
> parallel interface, and is a nice machine. NitrOS-9 runs on it, and it can
> replace a Coco. You can put Coco ROMS in it if you modify the keyboard to
> the Coco standard.
>
> Here's a good Dragon resource: http://archive.worldofdragon.
> org/index.php?title=Main_Page
>
> -[ Al ]-
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Steve Batson
> Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 5:53 PM
>
> Not knowing much about the Dragon, how compatible is it with the CoCo?
>
> Will the CoCo Disk Controllers or other cool hardware people have
> developed work with it?
>
> Failing the Disk Controller, would Drivewire work with it? (I haven't
> ventured into that yet)
>
> Will any of the CoCo .BIN files work on it?
>
> How compatible is CoCo Basic with it?
>
> I live in California, just trying to figure out if it's worth my money to
> get one. I don't know that I'd be doing a ton of programming and if I
> didn't have much software for it, I fear it would just be taking up space.
>
>
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