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Quite a co-incidence this discovery, given my other thread about display quality! Like Alastair, I'd be intrigued to know which Dragons this would work with. Might it already have been done on the later issue5/6 boards, which is why they have a better quality display? Or is it better still? I love t...

Ah, many thanks! I suspect I was just more forgiving of this kind of thing in my youth.

Any idea of how I could get hold of a later model? Is there a range of serial numbers to look out for? Would a Dragon 64 be more likely to have a later board?

Thanks!

I note from looking at this video on Youtube that he has the very same problem (vertical stripes). Does everyone's Dragon 32 display look like this? Has time erased the memory?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kibjr3z7 ... re=related

Hi all! Well, I'll be. My old Dragon 32 still works after all these years - just loaded 'Space Raiders' from tape for burst of nostalgia. I've got it connected via the composite out to a fairly modern TV, and I'm sure the video quality could be better. I've got vertical stripes, about the same width...

Brilliant, that worked perfectly, thanks. Never having had floppy disks, I wasn't aware of the subtleties.

Now, what would I need to do this for real? A dragon 64, obviously, a DOS cartridge and drives. Any pointers as to what I should look out for?

Thanks all!

Hi Simon, and many thanks! Alas, I now feel a bit foolish, as I'm not sure what to do next. I presume I need to rename the two Dragon 64 roms - I renemed the IC17 one to d64_1.rom, and the Superdos to sdose.rom, and that allowed me to start Xroar in D64 mode just fine. Not sure what to do with the I...

Blimey, is it really 27 years since I was bought my first Dragon 32? Well, in a fit of nostalgia, I thought a fun project for the winter would be to build myself the totally maxed out, fully specced mega-dragon I could never afford at the far off age of 15 (but always dreamed of). The first step is ...