BackBit Cartridge on the Dragon 32
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2025 10:38 pm
Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone else here had some experience in using the BackBit cartridge on their Dragon 32?
I have a BackBit cart and it has been brilliant for loads of systems, but I'm really struggling on getting anything to run reliably on the computer with it.
I have used images from the Dragon Archive as well as the Tandy CoCo Archives, and my results have been mostly negative from my testing.
For the record, I feared that it may have been a capacitor issue (as one of the caps had exploded), but a recap hasn't improved anything. Additionally, I did a RAM test and there were no faults found.
Some games that work are mostly in the .cas format such as Frogger, Chuckie Egg and Donkey King (albeit the Tom Mix version). A lot of Microdeal games won't load beyond the Microdeal splash screen, and most of the other games that were tested throw me back to the BASIC prompt or are frozen; the BASIC prompt issue isn't resolved with typing RUN nor EXEC.
Does anyone have an idea what it could be? Thanks!
I was wondering if anyone else here had some experience in using the BackBit cartridge on their Dragon 32?
I have a BackBit cart and it has been brilliant for loads of systems, but I'm really struggling on getting anything to run reliably on the computer with it.
I have used images from the Dragon Archive as well as the Tandy CoCo Archives, and my results have been mostly negative from my testing.
For the record, I feared that it may have been a capacitor issue (as one of the caps had exploded), but a recap hasn't improved anything. Additionally, I did a RAM test and there were no faults found.
Some games that work are mostly in the .cas format such as Frogger, Chuckie Egg and Donkey King (albeit the Tom Mix version). A lot of Microdeal games won't load beyond the Microdeal splash screen, and most of the other games that were tested throw me back to the BASIC prompt or are frozen; the BASIC prompt issue isn't resolved with typing RUN nor EXEC.
Does anyone have an idea what it could be? Thanks!