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I think they had the same basic, but it was what made the Dragon 32 interesting to me.
by gadders 3y ago
I think they had the same basic, but it was what made the Dragon 32 interesting to me.
- vidarh 3y agoAfter some digging, what got me confused: The "non-Color Computer" TRS-80 models started off with Level I basic, which was based on the non-Microsoft TinyBASIC. However even they moved on to a Microsoft BASIC variant: Level II and Level III BASIC were based of Microsofts BASIC-80, but modified to incorporate commands from Level I Basic.... But the TRS-80 Color Computer/CoCo, which is the machine Dragon 32 is actually nearly identical to, used Color BASIC (and later variants), which was based on Microsoft BASIC-69 (69 referring to the 6809 CPU; there was also a BASIC-68 for the 6800), so you're right the TRS-80 variant that was most similar to the Dragon 32 had the same BASIC as the Dragon 32... The good old days of (almost total lack of) compatibility...