The Dragon MSX is a

MSX MSX is a standardized home computer architecture, announced by ASCII Corporation on June 16, 1983. It was initially conceived by Microsoft as a product for the Eastern sector, and jointly marketed by Kazuhiko Nishi, the director at ASCII Corpo ...

compatible home computer, designed in 1985 by Radofin (the creators of the Mattel Aquarius) for

Dragon Data Dragon Data Ltd. was a Welsh producer of home computers during the early 1980s. These computers, the Dragon 32/64, Dragon 32 and Dragon 64, strongly resembled the Tandy Corporation, Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer ("CoCo")—both followed a standard ...

/Eurohard, the makers of the Dragon 64 home computer. Intended for the Spanish market it was never officially released, with a few prototypes being built. One of these (prototype 37) was presented at MadriSX 2001 by David F. Gisbert "TroMax", a spanish collector. No other machines are known.

Specifications

The Dragon MSX has the following technical details: *

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: 32 KB * RAM: 64 KB * Video Display Processor: TMS9918 with a Video RAM of 16 KB and this BASIC modes : **SCREEN 0 : text 40 × 24 characters, 2 colors **SCREEN 1 : text 32 × 24 characters, 16 colors **SCREEN 2 : graphics 256 × 192, 16 colors **SCREEN 3 : graphics 64 × 48, 16 colors ** Sprites: 32, 1 colour, max 4 per horizontal line * Ports: parallel port, two cartridge slots, two joystick ports, RF output, RGB output and Data Recorder connector *

Operating system An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ...

MSX BASIC MSX BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language. It is an extended version of Microsoft's MBASIC Version 4.5, adding support for graphic, music, and various peripherals attached to MSX microcomputers. Generally, MSX BASIC is designed to f ...

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Tromax
happy proprietary of the prototype #37 Dragon Data MSX microcomputer {{microcompu-stub