[Coco] Dragon & Drivewire

Aaron Wolfe aawolfe at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 13:03:26 EDT 2012


That's great!


On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Ken H. <dragon.atv at gmail.com> wrote:
> Good news!
> I've got Drivewire running on my Dragon (in CoCo mode with dual Dragon/CoCo
> roms).
> I've successfully loaded DECB dsk images as well as NitrOS9 Level 1.
> Everything seems to be working fine so far.
>
> I'm using the Max232 level shifter and a 74LS04 inverter.
> I've put a small tutorial for anyone who wants to give it a try at the
> Dragon Archive forum
> http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=781
>
> Thanks Darren  Phill & Aaron  :)
>
> Ken
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Phill Harvey-Smith <afra at ramoth.org.uk>wrote:
>
>> On 29/10/2012 23:07, Darren A wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Ken H. <dragon.atv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks, Darren
>>>> Would a 74LS04 inverter work? How exactly should it be wired?
>>>> Ken
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Yes. A 74LS04 would work nicely.  GND to pin 7.  +5V to pin 14.  Data
>>> in (from dragon) to pin 1.  Data out (to level shifter) on pin 2.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, that is exactly what I have here still built up on veroboard from my
>> experimentation a couple of weeks back. With that setup you should be able
>> to get the CoCo2 DW working.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> Phill.
>>
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