The DraCo/Dracovision, the first "true" Amiga clone

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IMHO it is a clone, it runs 3.1 and it runs it in hardware on a different hardware.

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IMHO some of you guys are ridiculous.

How can you say the Draco is just a hardware Amithlon? Draco runs AmigaOS 3.1 on a real 040 or 060 68k CPU, it runs Workbench on a Retina graphics board connected to a special bus, it has Zorro slots and runs all system friendly software.

Macrossystem created the Toccata 16-bit soundcard, the Warp engine turbo board and the Retina gfx-board. Those are essentially the different parts of the Draco.

The Phoenix ran AmigaOS and the Draco did not? Care to explain?

Remember that back when the Draco was released there was a move in the industry to RTG/AHI based applications, this was viewed as the future of the Amiga. By not integrating custom chips the Draco could be made much faster than any Amiga 4000 with RTG/060 could ever be.

Draco was so fast a Swedish magazine even recommended a Draco if you where to purchase a new A4000 with 060/RTG and if you primarily wanted to run sys friendly applications.

There are some Draco systems from time to time on german ebay.

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Yes, that was what some people considered the Draco to be back in 1997.

In their point of view, the Draco was the future. They took modern (1997) hardware from the Amiga world and created a new computer from it without being stuck in C= Amigas, too bad the idea never spread out to normal Amiga users though.

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IMHO no, WB needs to be able to run in hardware at least.