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Re: A next-generation Dragon?
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2020 9:00 pm
by sixxie
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Re: A next-generation Dragon?
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2020 10:26 pm
by robcfg
Sure, but it's as easy as it gets.
Download the source code file, uncompress it, go to that folder on the terminal and type:
And put your roms in the ~/.xroar/roms folder.
That's about it.
Re: A next-generation Dragon?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2020 7:50 pm
by Azerpy
Thank you Ciaran and Rob for these tools to achieve a fine project of Dragon with the RPI. Merci !
Re: A next-generation Dragon?
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2020 12:12 am
by CaptainNemo
Peter's review of the new ZX Spectrum Next –- if you have an hour to spare, watch this video!
Obviously, a lot of time and effort was put into this project.
As one viewer summarized it: “Don't need it, can't justify it, can't really afford it... but boy, I've gotta have one of these!“
...now imagine our next-generation 'Dragon II'
Re: A next-generation Dragon?
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2020 6:39 pm
by bluearcus
The main parts of a next generation Dragon are effectively in existence right now...
A 6309 machine, with CoCoSDC and V9958 based Graphics. Keeping the SAM/VDG keeps backwards compatibility.
Add something that gives CoCo3 style paged memory capability - like Tormod's MOOH, or the still vaporware CoCoMemJR and you are there.
Much more than this is fluff - maybe a DMA driver that can steal bus cycles and give no halt disk access, or polling-free serial keyboard interface. And a RTC
But most of the next gen features are already here. They just aren't neatly combined.
Kind regards,
Mike