Ah, the eighties... I was shorter, thinner and popular with the girls at school... Got a Dragon 64 as a birthday present and it felt like the future arrived. My father helped connect my Sharp boombox to the Dragon, but it always failed loading. We gave-up trying because I had an Atari 2600 to play games on, so for the first six or seven months I had to retype all my Basic programs EVERY TIME I turned the machine on, and copy the code to a notebook before I turned it off! I still keep 3 or 4 notebooks full of code. A classmate finally showed me how to set the recorder volume correctly...
My Dragon 64 is still in great condition, along with a joystick and a few games. Back then I had to justify to my parents every purchase that wasn't school-related, and believe me it was hard... I remember that the E key stopped responding once, and a local computer store charged a fortune to fix it. I'm a fast learner, so as soon as I had enough money, I bought a bottle of compressed contact cleaner. Lately I also had to resolder a loose connector under the Q key.
A month ago I've purchased a Tano Dragon from CA Digital; I just love the keyboard echo so I had to buy me another one...
Anyway, this is my first post here, so I thought you'd all like to read my Dragon story. I could also write about the great synthpop music of that period, but that's another story...
Be seeing you!
1983
- rolfmichelsen
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Re: 1983
Welcome aboard.
-- Rolf
-- Rolf
Re: 1983
Welcome to the Archive!
Nice story, indeed. I'm pretty confident that you'll enjoy the people here and don't hesitate to ask anything, we'll be glad to help you.
Rob
Nice story, indeed. I'm pretty confident that you'll enjoy the people here and don't hesitate to ask anything, we'll be glad to help you.
Rob
Re: 1983
Maybe it was one of the last available, isn't it?CaptainNemo wrote:A month ago I've purchased a Tano Dragon from CA Digital; I just love the keyboard echo so I had to buy me another one...
... too many ideas and too little time ... Related stuff written in Python:
Dragon 32 emulator / PyDC - Python Dragon 32 converter: https://github.com/jedie/DragonPy
DWLOAD server / Dragon-Lib and other stuff: https://github.com/6809
Dragon 32 emulator / PyDC - Python Dragon 32 converter: https://github.com/jedie/DragonPy
DWLOAD server / Dragon-Lib and other stuff: https://github.com/6809
- CaptainNemo
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Re: 1983
They still had plenty of them when I purchased mine around mid-March.
Shipping is a bit pricy because of the box size, but you'll get a NOS Dragon!
Shipping is a bit pricy because of the box size, but you'll get a NOS Dragon!
Re: 1983
Their website (http://www.cadigital.com/) has been "unavailable" since January 2014. How do we contact them to ask?CaptainNemo wrote:They still had plenty of them when I purchased mine around mid-March.
Shipping is a bit pricy because of the box size, but you'll get a NOS Dragon!
Re: 1983
Maybe the mail worked? I have two: laser@cadigital.com and catalog@cadigital.comzephyr wrote:Their website (http://www.cadigital.com/) has been "unavailable" since January 2014. How do we contact them to ask?
... too many ideas and too little time ... Related stuff written in Python:
Dragon 32 emulator / PyDC - Python Dragon 32 converter: https://github.com/jedie/DragonPy
DWLOAD server / Dragon-Lib and other stuff: https://github.com/6809
Dragon 32 emulator / PyDC - Python Dragon 32 converter: https://github.com/jedie/DragonPy
DWLOAD server / Dragon-Lib and other stuff: https://github.com/6809