[Coco] DRAGON TANO Arrived

Luis Fernández luis46coco at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 27 11:29:22 EDT 2012


Thanks for the informations
I'll try to put it on wikipedia


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> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:37:18 +0200
> From: dragon.atv at gmail.com
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] DRAGON TANO Arrived
> 
> The Dragon with an FD-502 works fine with 3.5" drives without any patching
> required.
> You can still find these drives quite easily.
> On the Dragon  3.5" disks can be formatted as 40 tracks or 80 tracks, DSDD
> - up to 720K. You can use the OmniFlop software to copy disk images using a
> PC.
> If you can only get HD floppy media, you need to tape over the HD hole so
> the disk will be treated as a double density disk.
> 
> Even better, you can get the hxc floppy emulator. This cool device emulates
> dual floppy drives through a single SD card.
> I got it and it works great with both the Dragon and CoCo3, both under
> DragonDos, RSDOS and OS9.
> Unlike drivewire or SuperIDE, your computer thinks its talking to a real
> floppy disk, so no driver changes are required.
> 
> http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html#SDCARDFloppyemulator
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Retro Canada <retrocanada76 at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> 
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