[Coco] DRAGON TANO Arrived

[Ken H]

The Dragon does have 12v output on its cartridge port.  
But you would need to build a 24 to 28 pin EPROM socket converter, or buy the DOS Adapter from Cloud9. 

On 27 Sep 2012, at 00:15, Luis Fernández <luis46coco at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Interesting
> but as you do that,
> I have another contoladora 26-3022 that requires 12v, (not for dragon or if?)
> 
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>> From: dragon.atv at gmail.com
>> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 23:45:47 +0200
>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] DRAGON TANO Arrived
>> 
>> You need to replace the FDC rom. 
>> It's easiest to replace on the FD-502 which has a 28 pin EPROM in a socket. 
>> I've actually burnt  both the Tano Superdos rom and a CoCo Dos rom on one 16k EPROM and installed a DIP switch for a switchable Coco/Dragon controller. 
>> 
>> On 26 Sep 2012, at 23:38, Retro Canada <retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> should replace a Tano Rom or a FDC rom ?
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Ken H <dragon.atv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Luis,
>>>> You can use your Tandy Floppy disk controller on the Dragon Tano.
>>>> You just need to replace the ROM with a special version of Dragon Superdos on EPROM. Let me know if you need the tano SuperDOS bin file.
>>>> 
>>>> You will then be able to run all Dragon disk software !  You can even use NitrOS9 on it (there's a special Tano version on the nightly builds).
>>>> I just wish HDB-dos was ported over to the Dragon so that we could use SuperIDE.
>>>> Ken
>>>> 
>>>> On 26 בספט 2012, at 21:57, Luis Fernández <luis46coco at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Since I got my new dragon TANO, immaculate as new, I'm very happy
>>>>> Although my heart is in the coconut, we must recognize that it has good things
>>>>> 
>>>>> There are only few, aprobechen, and will have the best of both worlds, only $ 45, lol
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Despite what I knew, I was struck by several things.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> The power adapter is external, black box, medium size, not like the commodore 64 (big),
>>>>> but curiously has a switch off / on very convenient, not warms if off, another curiosity, plug in the dragon ATARI joystick is, 9 pin,
>>>>> the kind of DIN Joistick are round like the coconut, I found something weak, 5 amps.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Because 64k, has 2 modes fiuncionamiento 32k, black cursor, 64 k blue cursor is passed with exec or exec 48000, in this mode has key repeat (Good)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Has Reset, strange Parallel, Serial, monitor output, output I / O?, Perfect keyboard, 4 arrows,
>>>>> cassette cable, video cable and antenna box, perfect Manual. with initial aid brochure and errata.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Monitor output with 3-pin DIN type GRN assets, Video and Audio, (this is the same as 2 RCA Audio and video?) Think that if
>>>>> The output I / O intrigues me can have an A / D or D / A good resolution (just guess)
>>>>> Cassette with 5 basic profits with printed manual, 70 pages
>>>>> CCWRITER, Word Processor
>>>>> CCMAILER, Mail list
>>>>> CCMERGER, mix files?
>>>>> CCFile, Database
>>>>> CCCALC: Spreadsheets
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Games Without Manual
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> DRAINTRO: Dragon Intro (Text Adventure)
>>>>> DRAGON (Adventures in text)
>>>>> COURIER, game graphics plane in text, very well done, flies off lands
>>>>> TOWER (Adventures in text)
>>>>> GOLDDIS (Adventures in text)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Very glad I got
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I will tell more
>>>>> 
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