MacroSystem Casablanca Classic

[flaviosr]

Dear All,
I have been given one Casablanca Classic but the HD is dead and I have no SW at all:
° can I use any SCSI HD I want (like a "real" Amiga)?;
° do somebody have a link for downloading manuals and software (I have not find anything... ...)?
Thank you very much

[TribbleSmasher]

Yes you can use a normal SCSI hd, just pull the caddy out and replace it.
To install software you will either need the original floppy disks, a way to transfer copies of those with a KryoFlux to new disks or a way to mount your hd to a computer with WinUAE and copy an existing image onto it.

[flaviosr]

Yes you can use a normal SCSI hd, just pull the caddy out and replace it.
To install software you will either need the original floppy disks, a way to transfer copies of those with a KryoFlux to new disks or a way to mount your hd to a computer with WinUAE and copy an existing image onto it.

I have cryoflux and I can attach a SCSI HD to my PC... but... I do not have any software for the Casablanca... do you have a link for downloading SW and possibly also for a PDF catalogue?

[TribbleSmasher]

You will need to initialise your new hd inside the Casablanca, as it partitions it to its needs, also, it has a CDB not a RDB, and Uae cannot write this block type, but it will accept a drive with it.
So first get the disk images from here
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JKUXhS1VwfpIN1hssyu769HtjHrpnukp
then write the normal install disk images with the Kryoflux onto diskettes. Remember, once you have used those disks in the Casablanca they will gain a stamp with your serialnumber written onto it and therefore become useless on another machine.
The disks have a special format due to copyprotection.

Once at least the partitioning is done you can hookup the drive in the PC and addit to WinUAE and copy the missing software from here
https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1evKLQJ2rG5a21E8pBmUOoNkSa1fPVmWt
(scroll down to "Macrosystem Casablanca....")
to it.

Always make sure you have backup images from your Casablanca drive, otherwise it is too much trouble to reinstall again.

[flaviosr]

You will need to initialise your new hd inside the Casablanca, as it partitions it to its needs, also, it has a CDB not a RDB, and Uae cannot write this block type, but it will accept a drive with it.
So first get the disk images from here
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JKUXhS1VwfpIN1hssyu769HtjHrpnukp
then write the normal install disk images with the Kryoflux onto diskettes. Remember, once you have used those disks in the Casablanca they will gain a stamp with your serialnumber written onto it and therefore become useless on another machine.
The disks have a special format due to copyprotection.

Once at least the partitioning is done you can hookup the drive in the PC and addit to WinUAE and copy the missing software from here
https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1evKLQJ2rG5a21E8pBmUOoNkSa1fPVmWt
(scroll down to "Macrosystem Casablanca....")
to it.

Always make sure you have backup images from your Casablanca drive, otherwise it is to much trouble to reinstall again.

Really thank you very much!
A very big amount of software. I suppose I can use any of the install disks, right? I see there are different revisions => the last the better? Since I see the SW is revision v2.7.5.58 (27.7.98) can I use which install revision I want or a specific one? For the last step I have only to copy the files and nothing else, right?
One last question: are there any PDF manuals somewhere?

Thank you for your time

[flaviosr]

I have tried to "give names" to the files...:
Bluebox v2.zip
Bonus effect v1.1.zip
Effekt (Full version) - Disk 1.zip
Effekt (Full version) - Disk 2.zip
Effekt (Full version) - Disk 3.zip
Effekt (Full version) - Disk 4.zip
Effekt (Full version) - Disk 5.zip
Fonts and Effects Christmas Disk.zip
Install disk v1.5.00.zip
Install disk v2.5.00 (Benelux).zip
Install disk v2.7.01 (Benelux).zip
Install disk v2.7.08.zip
Install disk v3.0.08.zip
Install disk v3.0.10 (Benelux with Bonus).zip
Install disk V3.0.10 (English).zip
PC-Link.zip
proDAD Adorage Magic effects.zip
proDAD Monument Titler v1.6 - Upgrade Disk 1 (version 1).zip
proDAD Monument Titler v1.6 - Upgrade Disk 1 (version 2).zip
proDAD Monument Titler v1.6 - Upgrade Disk 2 (version 1).zip
proDAD Monument Titler v1.6 - Upgrade Disk 2 (version 2).zip
Spezial Effekt (Full version).zip
Video Spicerack - Disk 1.zip
Video Spicerack - Disk 2.zip
Video Spicerack - Disk 3.zip

Can you help with the following:
CASFD1.zip
CASFD3.zip
CASFD4.zip
germanfinnish-3.0.8.rar
Schriften_Diskette_2.zip

Again thank you

[TribbleSmasher]

You should use any Installdisk v2.7 or v3 or so, depending what language you find on that disks.
Once you have a working system the rest is really try and see, as all those disks and the backup files are 'copies'.
There is however a little step involved in understanding and therefore use of the system as it is not an Amiga in the most common sense.
If you have the system installed with the main software it is pretty much self explanatory, i mean for a NLVE system from the 90s.

There is probably a manual somewhere outthere, i don't have the time to scan or locate it just for now.
If your machine is working basically, feel free to experiment with it and make backups along the way.
And, just to save yourself some trouble: No, you cannot turn it into an Amiga for all we know up today just yet.

You can read on the technical details here:
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=75161

[Jope]

Really thank you very much!

You're welcome.

Can you help with the following:
CASFD1.zip
CASFD3.zip
CASFD4.zip

Hmm, I don't actually remember for sure now, but I seem to remember these were fonts. You can extract the cooked data with dtc:
dtc -m1 -ftrack -i0 -foutputname.img -z3 -i4 -l8
Then the file outputname.img would have a FFS disk image that you can peek inside with whatever you have that knows Amiga FFS (Linux loop mount, WinUAE, Lallafa's xdftool, ...)

germanfinnish-3.0.8.rar

This has files off my Casablanca, which had the Finnish and German translations on it. As you can see, it is a .hdf, not something you can write to floppies, but you can copy out the translations if you require Finnish or German after you installed 3.0.10 from floppy.

Schriften_Diskette_2.zip

"font disk 2"