Two excelent news today!

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Dantyr
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Two excelent news today!

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I received both my Tandy Interface to use on Color64 and Lafumat Interface for the Dragon!

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More pics: https://picasaweb.google.com/1093456998 ... cesDeDrive#

:D :D :D

Regards,
Daniel
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That is good news indeed! 8-)


Where did you get those CoCo RS-DOS controllers from?

Is there any chance you could pose a complete photo of the DragonDOS controller sheet (on the left in your picture above)?
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zephyr wrote:That is good news indeed! 8-)


Where did you get those CoCo RS-DOS controllers from?

Is there any chance you could pose a complete photo of the DragonDOS controller sheet (on the left in your picture above)?
Ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/230532405580?ss ... 1497.l2649

But the seller doesn't appear to have anymore for sale.

I will have it scanned at work and will post that here.

EDIT:

A silly question but can I use this LAFUMAT's disk controller with the CoCo too ? Probably I need to replace the original BIOS with one mixed for RS-DOS and DragonDOS, right ?
The problem is that this Tandy controller uses 12v and will only work on a Coco1 (in my case, just on Color64). The MX-1600 doesn't have this voltage on the connector, so only Coco2 compatible interfaces will work on it. My Idea is to adapt LAFUMAT's controller to use both on Coco as on the Dragon.

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Dantyr wrote: I will have it scanned at work and will post that here.
Thank You! :)
Dantyr wrote: A silly question but can I use this LAFUMAT's disk controller with the CoCo too ? Probably I need to replace the original BIOS with one mixed for RS-DOS and DragonDOS, right ?
Yes. A suitable ROM image is attached below.
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Hello mates!

I see you have got the cards. Hope you work perfectly.

On the subject of testing in a coco I can not help because I have to test coco, but someone has to be first.

would be good news only to put the EEPROM of COCO and work.

remember guys, i have a lot of dragon disks for users :)
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LAFUMAT wrote:Hello mates!

I see you have got the cards. Hope you work perfectly.

On the subject of testing in a coco I can not help because I have to test coco, but someone has to be first.

would be good news only to put the EEPROM of COCO and work.

remember guys, i have a lot of dragon disks for users :)
LAFUMAT,

THANK YOU!!

But I can simply write DECB on a EPROM and use it on your interface in a Coco ? It will work like a Tandy interface ?

I also worked this weekend testing some old 5 1/4 drives here and after taking a beating of them, give it up and starting using a 3 1/2 HD from Mitsumi and it's working like a charm on the Coco.

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More pics here: https://picasaweb.google.com/1093456998 ... cesDeDrive#

Thanks!
Daniel
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zephyr wrote: Yes. A suitable ROM image is attached below.

WOW! Thank you!!
Just saw that now..

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Daniel
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zephyr wrote:Is there any chance you could pose a complete photo of the DragonDOS controller sheet (on the left in your picture above)?
Here it is...

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Thanks Daniel, but it was the other one (on the left in your picture above) I wanted to see.
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zephyr wrote:Thanks Daniel, but it was the other one (on the left in your picture above) I wanted to see.
Here it is...
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