Phill's Dragon Page

Processor       : Motoraola 6809E at 0.9MHz, or if you where lucky 1.8MHz
Memory          : 32K,64K
Backing Store   : Cassette at 1200baud.
                  Floppy Disk, optional up to 800K.
                  Hard disk, roumored !
Firmware        : Dragon Basic (Microsoft).
Screen          : Text 32x16x8.
                  Graphics 128x192x4, 256x192x2.
Other I/O       : 2xAnalogue joysticks,
                  Paralell printer port,
                  Serial port on Dragon 64.
    

The Dragon 32 was my second machine, boasting a large for it's time 32K of memory, an 8 color display in text mode, 4 colours in 128x192 & 2 colours in 256x192. Real sound delivered through the speaker on the T.V. Unusual in that it used the Motorola 6809, rather than the more usual Z80 or 6509, much nicer to program though, why I guess the dragon version of Manic Miner had more levels than the spectrum version in *LESS* memory ! Actuall mine's now been expanded to 64K of memory via a DIY RAM chip replacement and has had a DragonDos added plus a 5.25" & 3.5" drives, both 720K.

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