[Coco] DRAGON TANO Arrived

[Retro Canada]

Yep, but how do you pass files to it ?

Since I don't have an old PC with 5.25 floppies and Drivewire won't
work on it either.


On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Luis Fernández <luis46coco at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> 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:
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>> >
>> > 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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>> >>>>> 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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