[Coco] British Dragon Games Scene

Nick Marentes nickma2 at optusnet.com.au
Sat Aug 23 03:14:29 EDT 2014


I see that there were several games created for the Dragon and released 
to a European market that were unknown of in the US back in the day.

Many of these were quite competantly written and generally featured the 
4 color "Pmode 3" screenmodes.

Here in Australia we generally only saw the American CoCo side. The 
Dragon was not a very widely known system whereas there were over 700 
Tandy Electronics stores Australia wide.

Shame I didn't know about these Dragon games. Many of the US games were 
using Pmode 4 to achieve artifact colors... which didn't work on a PAL 
based CoCo.

Is there are list of the uniquely British Dragon games?

I have always dreaded the 6847 VDG chip but it seems some of our British 
friends have been able to create some very competant games and demos 
with it.

Nick


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