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Originally Posted by Richard_FM
I heard that the Dragons didn't support lower case letters as standard, which limited their educational use.
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Correct. It used the 6847 video chip which had an internal character generator ROM for upper case only.
I think one of the word processors for the Dragon used the highest resolution graphics mode and generated the characters in terms of the pixels in that mode, which allowed lower case. I never used that program though.
As I mentioned, the CoCo3 has true lower case in the hardware. But that machine was never sold in the UK. Most outputted NTSC video at US TV rates. According to the service manual there was a PAL version, sold in Australia?, but I've never see it.