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Offline cv643d

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Re: Anybody heard of or have a Draco?
« Reply #14 from previous page: May 02, 2007, 04:29:32 PM »
What is the EaglePC?
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Re: Anybody heard of or have a Draco?
« Reply #15 on: May 02, 2007, 06:23:59 PM »
Eagle computers was (IIRC) a German manufacturer that was often discussed when mentioning AMIGA licensed computers.  They became a big name in the 1990's as C= was in demise. They were basically a PC clone maker who was licensed to make an A4000T type system for Europe when AMIGA was owned by Amiga.de. I don't think they ever did anything on the US side of the pond however.

A few points of reference:

Eagle A4000TE

A4000TE information

Eagle ZIII Shuttleboard

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Re: Anybody heard of of have a Draco?
« Reply #16 on: May 02, 2007, 08:36:39 PM »
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So even Commodore was moving away from chipset dependence...


No they weren't. DraCo,  together with the DraCoVision and the Casablanca were product of MacroSystem. It has nothing to do with Commodore.
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Re: Anybody heard of or have a Draco?
« Reply #17 on: October 13, 2007, 04:07:00 AM »
I received my first Draco (cube) today. It's really quick, partly because of the 68060, partly because of the fast SCSI controller. And from what little I have tried, it seems quite compatible as well. Considering that a second-hand system is cheaper than a second-hand A4000 accelerator, it is quite a good alternative for running productive software.
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Re: Anybody heard of or have a Draco?
« Reply #18 on: October 13, 2007, 09:16:43 AM »
Cool! Those cube cases (DraCo Vision) are much prettier than the first DraCos (in regular tower)..

Where did you find/get it and how much did you pay?
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Re: Anybody heard of or have a Draco?
« Reply #19 on: October 13, 2007, 09:55:34 AM »
BTW that cube case is made by Yeong Yang it is a regular PC case in AT-standard. That first version of the case is hard to track down though.
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Re: Anybody heard of of have a Draco?
« Reply #20 on: October 13, 2007, 12:59:44 PM »
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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...

Untrue, but Commodore was moving away from hardwired chipsets.  Check out the AAA and Hombre next-gen Amiga chipsets.  They were designed to go onto a PCI slot, allowing one to upgrade their Amigas chipset.
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Re: Anybody heard of or have a Draco?
« Reply #21 on: October 13, 2007, 06:23:24 PM »
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Cool! Those cube cases (DraCo Vision) are much prettier than the first DraCos (in regular tower)..


I'm not particularly inclined to agree, but I'm expecting a tower model as well, so then I'll be able to find out first-hand. OTOH, the cube certainly is easy to service.

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Where did you find/get it and how much did you pay?


Ebay.de has had a lot of Dracos lately. I paid 256€ for the cube including shipping to Sweden.
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