Draco - Casablance, what is the difference ??

[Effy]

The video hardware of the Casablanca is similar to the DraCo Vision Nonlinear Workstation, which is a professional system for broadcast applications. The DraCo Vision was developed over a number of years, so there is significant expertise behind the Casablanca

is a part of this Ebay add and I was wondering if this Casablanca is Draco compatible and therefor also Amiga compatible

[Kronos]

The 1st Casablanca did use an 68060 indead, and afair it could also handle Amiga-floppies,
but it wasn't running on a OS, so kacked down that one couldn't start/install any SW
except that what came with it.

[Acill]

I'm sure it is, but you cant install anything over 3.1 on it and it wont run anything that hits the amiga custom chips. This makes it worthless since it connects to a TV and not a monitor.

[Framiga]

Hi Effy,

he claims "similar to Draco" but . . . ..!!!

Draco was the first Amiga clone for NLE and i know people that uses it now with good satisfaction.

Casablanca, using the DoomMaster style, is a toy (and a quite closed-system) compared to the Draco :-D

You can find Draco Systems, for around 1000-1200 EUR, with DV module (based on a Sony DV DVBK module).

Ciao

[vortexau]

DraCo

At 15,000 US dollars the Draco is not aimed at the ordinary Amiga user. It is sold primarily to the video market as a video editing tool. It offered many improvements over the high-end Commodore A4000 unit of the time. For the first time, users could utilize a unified memory structure, rather than the chip/fast ram differences of existing Amigas. Through the use of the bundled MovieStudio application, it was possible to utilize 3:1 M-JPEG compression.

Two variants of the Draco are known to exist

    * the first version was simply advertised as the Draco. It was sold in a tower case
    * the second version is advertised as the Draco Vision. As shown by the above image, it is sold in a cube case. Macrosystems have ceased emphasizing the AmigaOS capabilities, simply referring to the OS as "own".

Draco Casablanca

The Casablanca is a logical development on the Draco Amiga-clone aimed at the video market and has drawn a great deal of support from professionals and enthusiasts alike. The Casablanca is sold as a complete professional system and has a price tag to match, with a suggested retail price of $3,995.
some information on the Casablanca PC floppy drive:

"[The] floppy disk is a pc one and it uses special pc format (blocks of 1 Kb with specially encoded mfm values to protect against copying on pc), but the file system is a typical amiga file system adapted to this format (changed block sizes).You can easily mount an image of this disk
using simple mountlist on a real amiga."

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current OS: CASABLANCA SMART EDIT 3.1