[Coco] DRAGON TANO Arrived

[Luis Fernández]

Thanks

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> From: dragon.atv at gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:34:08 +0200
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] DRAGON TANO Arrived
> 
> 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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> >>>>> Making
> >>>>> 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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