Since 2005, RETRO Innovations has been creating contemporary hardware peripheral and expansion options for classic computers from Apple, Atari, Commodore, Radio Shack, and Texas Instruments. From solid state storage devices to memory expansions, RETRO Innovations hopes to bridge the technology gap between the 1980s and today.
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Expanding the MC6847: Deciphering the Interface, Part 2
As noted in a previous post, along with finding that Green Mountain Micro (GMM) had created a lowercase modification for the CoCo called “lowerkit”, Eurohard SA also created a lowercase update for the Dragon 200e for the Spanish market, which I think was planned or actually produced as an official part of the Dragon 200e…
Expanding the MC6847: Deciphering Fonts, Part 2
Another Player Enters the Game While searching for TANDY Color Computer external font solutions, I found information on a similar solution that was created for the Dragon 200e. As a TANO Dragon owner (basically, an imported Dragon Data Dragon 64), I was aware of the Dragon line, but the 200 (and 200e) were new to…
Expanding the MC6847: Deciphering the Interface
Having found some external fonts used with a MC6847 lowercase modification from “back in the day” (the lowerkit product from Green Mountain Micro) and converting them into ROM-burnable images, I determined a ROM font was composed of 12 bytes of font bitmap data, with 4 bytes of “padding” to align font data on 16 byte…
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