[Coco] DRAGON TANO Arrived

[Juan Castro]

I'd like something like those to upgrade the ROMs of my CoCo 1:

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/t2sguazn9-xPatDBo3ShKW9XcHdiH80reA6_ygAbi6M

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Ken H <dragon.atv at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> >
> >> CC: coco at maltedmedia.com
> >> 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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> >>>>> CoCoDskUtilPack V 1.1.3A.zip, Scan magazines and organize maltedmedia
> >>>>> http://cococoding.com/cocodskutil/ Thank Aaron Wolfe
> >>>>> http://www.tandycoco.com Thank Brian Blake and Stephen Fischer
> >>>>> My personal blog: http://www.luis45ccs.blogspot.com,
> >>>>> Excuse my English, I use google translator, my language is Spanish,
> I'm Spanish but I live in Venezuela
> >>>>>
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