Tony Duell wrote:
>
> > The Color Computer clone was the Dragon, best known in the UK. It
>
> Strictly, those 2 machines were not clones. They were both based on the
> same Motorola Application Note (for the 6883 SAM), and both ran Microsoft
> BASIC, but there were several differences.
>
> Once you've decided to use a 6883 SAM + 6809E CPU + 6847 video chip,
> there's not a lot of choice in what else you put in there.
>
> One of the most annoying differences between the Dragon and the CoCo was
> that the BASIC tokens were in a different order. A tokenised BASIC tape
> CSAVEd on one machine wouldn't CLOAD into the other and run. All the
> keywords would be swapped round
>
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True IF you try to use 'tokenized' Basic. If on the other hand, you have
done your save in ASCII format (append ",A" to the CSAVE command), it
will load and run just fine.
> -tony
The Dragon has some nother NICE features beyond the obvious 'parallel
port' --- I.E. 96tpi floppy support (I.E. 80 track) and double side
support _as it sits_.
Chuck
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