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Hello everyone!

Thanks to my friends at the spanish Classic Computing Users Association, who contacted David F. Gisbert aka Tromax, the owner of the only Dragon MSX known to exist, I got the chance to get the machine to photograph and scan it.

Yes! We now have the elusive Dragon MSX on the Archive in all its glory!

Check the Dragon MSX page and don't forget to take a look at the hardware pictures page to see the high quality board scans!

I think it's amazing that we now have detailed pictures and scans of all Dragon Data machines.

I hope you like it!

Excellent! So it has the same ROMs as the Sony HB-55/HB-75, are there any notable hardware differences from the Sony?

I’m no MSX expert, but it seems pretty standard with nothing noticeable.

Anyway, please check the board scans just in case I missed something juicy.

Nice work Rob!

So this machine is a `Dragon' in name only? A fascinating discovery none-the-less.

Thanks Steve, glad you like it!

It's an interesting machine because it's part of Dragon Data/Eurohard history, even if it's a fairly standard MSX1 machine, and definitely worth having it finally documented at the Archive.

Cheers,
Rob

Great work Rob.
A worthy addition to the archive.

I've been looking at the Sony HB-55/HB-75 in MAME and those use Sony Hit Bit branded firmware, and contain 3x16k ROMs whereas the Dragon MSX only has 2x16K.

So could I get the actual ROMs from the Dragon MSX to ensure I get them correct in MAME?

Sure!

I've attached the roms, and also the result from MAME's romident command.

robcfg wrote:I've attached the roms, and also the result from MAME's romident command.

Perfect thanks What do we think the year of release was 1984 or 1985? And who should I credit in MAME's whatsnew?

I think it was 85, as references on the press on January 1985 said that they expected to start producing the machine by middle of that year.

As for the credits, I'd go for "David F. Gisbert aka Tromax, AUIC and Robcfg".

Thank you very much!