[Coco] SCD-DOS for Dragon computers

[Al Hartman]

Some people DID indeed do that. But it's more than putting in a modified 
Coco ROM chip. You need to rewire the keyboard matrix as they were slightly 
different.

If you just changed the ROMS and modified they keyboard mapping in the ROMs 
to match the Dragon Keyboard, that would work fine for BASIC programs, but 
not for any games or other .BIN programs that used their own I/O routines.

I have a prototype Tano Dragon 64, but Bob Rosen robbed every socketed chip 
of value from it. Someday, I need to burn a set of ROMs and repopulate it.

-[ Al ]-

-----Original Message----- 
From: Allen Huffman

> On Jan 18, 2015, at 8:14 PM, Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Pretty nice computer, tons of room in the case for additional
> circuit boards… :)

And thus begins Ed's expansion in to even more variations of these boards...

It's funny, back in the day, being aware of the Dragon an envious of the 
keyboard/RS232 and such, but beyond references in Rainbow I never saw one in 
person until a CoCoFEST! in recent years. Looking back, I wonder how hard it 
would have been to patch the ROMs to be CoCo compatible -- I never really 
heard of a CoCo users retrofitting a Dragon like that.

-- A

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