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Hi, I own the Beta board Phill did the original MESS emulation from. Whist Phill has more in-depth tech knowledge, I’ll try and help out where I can.

The lines at 6055 and 6075 do contain a typo but it will run fine as FALSE is 0 and FLASE will also be 0 as well as it's not used. Thx and I'll sort it on the next release. :D As Phill mentioned .BIN is assumed to be a CoCo ROM (cart) image so at the moment these's no direct way to load a M/C .BIN f...

prime wrote:I've tested the board with the Alpha and it seems to work perfectly with that too.

Did it need a cable mod due to the Alphas different drive select pins?

and now where to get one? Hmm ebay ! Andrew They do pop up on eBay from time to time. As Simon has hinted at the calibration does tend to drift out over time, this needs an oscilloscope to re-cal. The floppy controller chip isn't very reliable either but they are easily replaced and still available...

Red_Machine wrote:I'll see about getting our scanner out of the loft when I get the chance. I can't promise mind-blowing resolution, but it'll most certainly be readable.

That's good, let us know if you get anything sorted.

BFN

I also have a lot of Dragon-related documents, such as a letter from Dragon Data (nice letterhead) with a Dragon 64 part-exchange coupon. Welcome. The letter from DD with the D64 part-ex coupon sounds interesting. Would you be able to to get a hi-res scan? as it would be good to get up on the websi...

Although this might not be an option for yourself, in the past I used the serial port (on a Dragon 64) for comms to a PC. Many years ago I wrote a simple interface into DOS forthe PC so you could do directory listings, change directory etc. from the Dragon, the idea was to use the PC as fileserver b...

looking at the manual it looks like it can emulate a 'twin floppy' drive system, is this correct?

sixxie wrote:Video here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/outriders/. Featuring Richard (mostly) & Simon!

Next year Simon can do the video bit