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admin wrote: ↑Tue Oct 11, 2022 2:18 pm Yes - connectors and ICs are all in the same place...so I suspect its the same drive......

Thanks, good to know.

Here are some photos of the insides - only 2 labels that I can see so hopefully they can help you identify the drive model. I'm surprised there's no obvious model number anywhere. Your photos look remarkably similar to one that I got from a Hobbit owner, especially the one with serial number and la...

admin wrote: ↑Thu Oct 06, 2022 4:50 pm Just catching up...I have one in storage, been there for quite a few years, so if it's not mega urgent I should be able to get it out and take some internal photos

Excellent, whenever you can it's mainly the tape unit that needs identifying.

I'm afraid I cannot find the pictures of the drive mechanism :( Hopefully it's current owner will eventually see this. Presume this is the only unit that's ever been seen? I'm currently emulating the Hobbit drive for the Beeb, and MDCR for the Atom, both use the same tape unit which is already emul...

Does anyone actually have the Ultra Drive that's in the archive at http://archive.worldofdragon.org/index.php?title=Ikon_Ultra_Drive I'm interested in knowing the model number of the actual tape unit used in them. Similar units were available for a few different machines, including BBC and Nascom, b...

rolfmichelsen wrote: ↑Fri Aug 19, 2022 2:02 pm Is it just me, or is that link dead?

-- Rolf

Fixed link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-xLSwyAlJ4

.mad. wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 8:48 am If it's possible?
can you tell me how to set these ROOT options via command-line.

Sorry, not possible.

.mad. wrote: ↑Mon Jun 27, 2022 7:26 pm is there a way to boot MAME CoCo2 without a Disk ROM in slot device from command-line?
so it boots directly into EXTENDED COLOR BASIC

mame coco2 -ext ""

robcfg wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 9:22 am Does the DragonMMC work with CoCo machines too?

How is that achieved?

Yes, the second screenshot is the same device with coco2. It detects the machine and switches it's internal ROM accordingly.

Coming soon maybe ...