Recently a DraCo Cube was sold on eBay and, elsewhere, an Italian guy preserved another prototype. I thought it would have been useful to share some photos of these two exotic machines.
So:
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After the demise of Commodore in 1994, MacroSystem took a dim view of a successor company who could bring the Amiga back to success. Instead of waiting for the messiah they dropped the idea of developing the Zorro III version of V-Lab Motion and decided to develop an independent platform which could run Amiga OS and allowed easy adaptation of their Amiga non-linear video editing product line.
Specification Overview
MacroSystem DraCo Cube, with the Motorola 68060 processor, at 50MHz, 128MB 60ns, 72-pin RAM (front fascia a bit yellow and with some staints that might come off, but all metal parts in absolute MINT condition, absolutely no corrosion at all). The DraCo Cube still has many 3.5" and 5.25" available bays for further expansion.
MacroSystem Altais graphics card for the DraCo bus, with 4MB video RAM.
MacroSystem V-Lab Y/C realtime digitizer card.
One 2GB Seagate Barracuda 7200 r.p.m. SCSI hard drive, with two 1MB partitions (Workbench and Work), loaded with some applications (please watch photos, applications untested since might require additional hardware). REALLY FAST DRIVE!
SCSI CD-ROM drive, tested working OK.
Floppy, tested working OK.
Original MacroSystem DraCo keyboard (keys a bit yellowed), tested working OK.
Special Yakumo mouse for DraCo, tested working OK.
Gallery #02: Link
More informations about DraCo Cube are available here.
Overview
The most unique technicality of DraCo is the absence of the Amiga custom chips. Agnus/Alice, Denise/Lisa, Paula and the others are all missing. So thus there's no need for Chip RAM as well. DraCo only kept two CIAs for its I/O ports and the Kickstart ROM for Amiga OS. Thanks to retargetable graphics, most well written Amiga software runs on it without hiccup.
Cheers,
Oge
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Hiyas Oge, I have taken the oportunity to flesh out your post and remove an eBay Item sale out of a non-sale thread. The Draco certainly is an interesting bit of history, I am sure it will cause some good disucssion. Z
So:
Information
After the demise of Commodore in 1994, MacroSystem took a dim view of a successor company who could bring the Amiga back to success. Instead of waiting for the messiah they dropped the idea of developing the Zorro III version of V-Lab Motion and decided to develop an independent platform which could run Amiga OS and allowed easy adaptation of their Amiga non-linear video editing product line.
MacroSystem DraCo Cube, with the Motorola 68060 processor, at 50MHz, 128MB 60ns, 72-pin RAM (front fascia a bit yellow and with some staints that might come off, but all metal parts in absolute MINT condition, absolutely no corrosion at all). The DraCo Cube still has many 3.5" and 5.25" available bays for further expansion.
MacroSystem Altais graphics card for the DraCo bus, with 4MB video RAM.
MacroSystem V-Lab Y/C realtime digitizer card.
One 2GB Seagate Barracuda 7200 r.p.m. SCSI hard drive, with two 1MB partitions (Workbench and Work), loaded with some applications (please watch photos, applications untested since might require additional hardware). REALLY FAST DRIVE!
SCSI CD-ROM drive, tested working OK.
Floppy, tested working OK.
Original MacroSystem DraCo keyboard (keys a bit yellowed), tested working OK.
Special Yakumo mouse for DraCo, tested working OK.
More informations about DraCo Cube are available here.
Overview
The most unique technicality of DraCo is the absence of the Amiga custom chips. Agnus/Alice, Denise/Lisa, Paula and the others are all missing. So thus there's no need for Chip RAM as well. DraCo only kept two CIAs for its I/O ports and the Kickstart ROM for Amiga OS. Thanks to retargetable graphics, most well written Amiga software runs on it without hiccup.
Cheers,
Oge
[edit]
Hiyas Oge, I have taken the oportunity to flesh out your post and remove an eBay Item sale out of a non-sale thread. The Draco certainly is an interesting bit of history, I am sure it will cause some good disucssion. Z
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