[Coco] FD-502 dual drive system on eBay (not mine)

Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 17 10:58:37 EDT 2013


No you are cheating. This is a coco-dragonstein.

I said to replace the tandy FDC controller RSDOS for a SUPERDOS7T and use
the Dragon on its original Dragon32/64 modes.




On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Daniel Campos <daniel.campus at gmail.com>wrote:

> The only differences are in software. Here I have my Tano with CoCo ROMs
> working with my 26-3022 and even loading Nitros9:
>
>
> https://picasaweb.google.com/109345699838454178536/DragonByTano#5894541932834828194
>
>
> https://picasaweb.google.com/109345699838454178536/DragonByTano#5894541933638359298
>
>
> https://picasaweb.google.com/109345699838454178536/DragonByTano#5894541918705105330
>
> Daniel
>
>
> 2013/9/17 Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) <retrocanada76 at gmail.com>
>
> > The dragon interface uses a WD2797 and is a non-halt interface. While
> using
> > the modifed ROM with a tandy SD any software that makes direct disk
> access
> > will fail.
> >
> > This includes OS-9, FLEX, etc.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > You can do that, there are modified DragonDOS ROMs for Coco
> Controllers.
> > > But, from what I understand the Dragon paks use a different port to
> > > communicate with the controller.
> > >
> > > - Al -
> > >
> > > -----Original Message----- From: Arthur Flexser
> > >
> > > Wouldn't a CoCo disk system work in the Dragon, if you replaced the
> > > Disk Basic ROM with an EPROM containing Dragon DOS (or whatever it's
> > > called)?
> > >
> > > Art
> > >
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