admin wrote:In short no.... for the following reasons:
1. The D32 and D64 power boards are slightly different although the later D32 PSU boards should work
Though it is pretty easy to convert one to the other, by switching the 7912 regulator for a 7905, or vice-versa, 7912 is -12V for the 64, 7905 is -5V for the 32.
2. The Tano motherboard only generates an NTSC signal and lacks the additional circuits to produce a PAL signal
3. The PSU board only contains the modulator, it does nothing with the source signal to change its format
The way I use mine is to use the Dragon 32/64 Power Supply (220v-240v) and to use the Monitor port on the rear of the Dragon with a TV that supports NTSC signals (I use a Dragon to SCART cable to do this). Most modern TVs will support both PAL and NTSC signals.
Yeah that will work, as I also do that.
The 4th and most significant reason it won't work is because the cable between the power board and the cpu board is wired differently for the Tano, I believe that the power lines are the same from the PSU to CPU boards, but the video signal out from the CPU to the modulator/monitor socket where wired differently.
I have a bare tano CPU board that came to me having had some work done on it, it was in non-working condition, and I think that somewhere in it's past someone tried to 'fix' it not knowing about the different connections, and where not able to get a video signal so assumed that there was a fault. I only sussed that it was a Tano board when I tried compating it to the UK 64's circuit diagram and found it different, at that point I opened one of my Tano machines and plugged it into that, magically I got a picture. I did convert a PSU board to work with it, but it did involve cutting and re-routing tracks on the PSU board, and only works with the monitor socket, but is not the best solution.
Cheers.
Phill.
