Date   : Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:22:44 +0000
From   : zeem.uk@... (Alex Taylor)
Subject: Dragon 32 / Coco

On 31/10/2007, Anders Carlsson <anders.carlsson@...> wrote:
> Steve Lancaster wrote:
>
> > the cartridge games for the Dragon work on the Coco and vice versa
>
> Wow! I didn't think they would be *that* compatible.

I'm sure everything's the same except the BASIC ROM, and the cartridge
slot occupies the same memory space as that - so the cartridges work
fine in either machine.

I got the impression that Dragon nicked the whole design off Tandy but
had to use their own ROM because that was the only copyrighted bit in
the original CoCo - much like the way the IBM PC was cloned. I'm sure
I read somewhere that Tandy weren't very happy about the Dragon but
they were powerless to do anything about it.

-- 
Alex Taylor