Anybody heard of or have a Draco?

[Ross1]

While I was doing some searching I found this HERE anybody know anything or have one of these and what can they do? Apparently it runs the Amiga OS

[motorollin]

Yes it runs AmigaOS and friendly apps, but no custom chipset means no games.

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moto

[hooligan]

Yeah, its sort of Am... Teron-board or Pegasos but with 68k cpu.

[Ross1]

Very interesting, I wonder if there are any floating around it would be neat to get one and play 8-)

[Tigger]

The Draco is a video editor that runs AmigaOS.  The VLab folks did it as I recall.  It was a custom 68K motherboard, though interestingly it did have the CIA chips on it. If commodore hadnt gone under, I think it would havebeen the first of many such products like that.
    -Tig

[cv643d]

You can find them sometimes on the German ebay.

Too bad the idea never caught on in times when people wanted more modern 68k hardware.

There was some hardware that replaced Draco but it was not Amiga based but a custom hardware solution I think.

[ltstanfo]

IIRC the Draco was one of the first AMIGA compatible computers (the other was the EaglePC) and was intended to be a video editing system (think Video Toaster for Germany / Europe but using only MacroSystems cards).  It was fairly well received but it was expensive.  The link you provide shows a much newer case.  The original version was a towered system, much like the C= A4000T.

As others have posted, it did / does not use the Amiga chip set so if a program you are trying to use needs to address an AMIGA specific chip, that program will not run (ie alot of earlier AMIGA games).

Regards,
Ltstanfo

[hooligan]

Ross1 wrote:
Very interesting, I wonder if there are any floating around it would be neat to get one and play 8-)

Run Amithlon.. pretty much the same experience but a lot upgraded.

[McVenco]

Ross1 wrote:
Very interesting, I wonder if there are any floating around it would be neat to get one and play 8-)

There are 2 for sale in Holland, and 1 in Poland.

For the one in Poland, check the ads ('classifieds') on www.amigworld.net - the seller is asking 650 euro

The seller of the 2 DraCo's in Holland is asking 500 Euro for both of them.

[A4000_Mad]

You just missed this one:-

http://cgi.ebay.pl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330110707476


Some great pix though :-)

A4000 Mad

[McVenco]

A4000_Mad wrote:
You just missed this one:-

http://cgi.ebay.pl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330110707476


Some great pix though :-)

A4000 Mad

For some reason I believe it's the same Draco as the one on aw.net. I mean, how big are the chances that 2 Draco's pop up at the same time in Poland?

Then again, how big are the chances that someone in Holland has TWO Draco machines for sale :-)

Maybe the buyer of this Ebay Draco wants to make some quick money? :lol:

[Ross1]

Too high priced for me. I'll stick with my 2 A4000's
It seems that the Draco was mostly available over seas. Not in North America.

[Louis Dias]

So even Commodore was moving away from chipset dependence...
The CIA chips were probably still needed for the mouse, no?  Much like ps/2 ports on the PC for so long...

[Kronos]

lou_dias wrote:
So even Commodore was moving away from chipset dependence...
The CIA chips were probably still needed for the mouse, no?  Much like ps/2 ports on the PC for so long...

Timers in used exec were the main reason, useing serial mice was never that big of a problem.

[cv643d]

What is the EaglePC?