Emulate the classic Dragon 32
Wales has a history of making computers, going back to the early days of the Raspberry Pi in 2012. Sony’s technology centre in Pencoed is where the Pi has been made since the first revision of the board (the first batches of Raspberry Pi were made elsewhere, but after that it was all Sony).
Yet before the Raspberry Pi there was another Welsh computer: the Dragon 32 made by Dragon Data Ltd from 1982 to 1984. After a short life Dragon Data Ltd collapsed in 1984 and from then production of the Dragon 200, a Dragon 64 in a new case, went to Eurohard SA, which itself went bust in 1987. The remaining stock of Dragon machines were given away to subscribers of a Spanish electronics magazine. But in these short years the Dragon 32 and 64 were part of the rich tapestry of 1980s home computers that inspired a generation to learn coding and to create their own games.
The Dragon 32 came with 32KB of RAM, and the Dragon 64 with 64KB, but both were powered by a Motorola 0.89MHz MC6809E CPU. The Dragon machines didn’t fit into the home computer market, nor the educational market. For the home, the Dragon machines didn’t have the best graphics or sound and the machine wasn’t on the market long enough to generate the interest of
