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

[Al Hartman]

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.