Draco
Casablanca
The Casablanca is a video editor released during 1997 that
allows the user to create professional effects with full screen
video. It 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. Like the original Draco, the
Casablanca uses the Amiga ROM, patching some of the operating
system to run on the machine.
Specifications
CPU |
68040 or 68060 |
Memory |
16Mb RAM |
Interface |
SCSI-II hard disk |
Drives |
1.44 hi-density disk drive, hard disk |
Peripherals |
Standard PC mice and keyboards |
Fitted in a video-shaped case, the Casablanca allows connection
to a standard TV or monitor and is operated through the graphical
display using the mouse. Peripherals such as a breakout board can
be added for the adding of YUV-Component and XLR-Balanced-Audio
outputs. It is also possible to add IEEE 1394 FireWire support for
$1,695.
Peter Drapich provides 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."
To read more about the Casablanca, visit http://www.draco.com
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