Mark Fixes Stuff @markfixesstuff.com · Mar 12 The Dragon 32 was largely TRS-80 compatible. Why didn't this give it an advantage? It seemed to struggle because it lacked the software library of its rivals? I'm perplexed why this relatively easy win wasn't taken by the exploding computer market?? #TRS80 #RetroComputers #80sGaming
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The EACA Colour Genie was actually TRS-80 compatible. The EACA Video Genie series was pretty popular in Germany. We had TRS-80 I-III at school and the teachers had Video Genies at home since they were substantially cheaper.
I have good memories of that machine… except for waiting forever for software to load from tape. Unfortunately, there was lots of competition in the 80s and this machine just didn’t make it.
Have to admit, was never a fan BITD. It just had nothing cool on it and looked ass to me as a kid. One mate had one and he just played on my Spectrum all the time. Looking back it was better than I thought and lasted a long time thanks to Spain. I have a CoCo2 and love it :)
The TRS-80 was never a seller in the UK to begin with, and the long & short of it is the Motorola 6847 was a terrible terrible graphics chip that made everything look awful. Even an 8 year could compare screenshots of a Dragon & Spectrum and know which one looked better.