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|New 060 amiga
By BullyBeef
Amiga centre scotland have unveiled plans to release an Amiga OS-compa-
tible computer early next year, based on the Motorola 68060, it has been
developed bt Macrosystem gmbH of germany and named the DraCo, the twist
in the tale is that the computer will only run software that does not
rely on the Amiga custom chips.
Thats not the initial disaster that it may seem, any program that is
system compatible and runs on boards such as the Rainbow,Piccolo or Pi-
casso will work with the DraCo, this includes software such as ADPro,
Lightwave, ImageFX, and Photogenics, hardware compatibility is handled
with five Zorro II slots, hardware that uses the custom chips will not
work, this includes 880k floppy drives, genlocks,and the Video Toaster.
Aimed at power graphic users, Amiga centre Scotland hope that the sys-
tem will attract users from other platforms:"the quality of Amiga soft-
ware has long been a source of envy for those involved with other mach-
ines, the DraCo will release the power and creativity that Amiga enthu-
siasts have always known was there,"said Martin Lowe of ACS.
The DraCo will be housed in a full-sized tower with 4Mb of RAM minimum,
expandable to 128Mb using on-board 72-pin SIMM modules, the SCSI con-
troller is the same as the one used in the Warp Engine and guarantees
the highest data transfer rates with a maximum of free CPU time, a
parallel port and triple speed CD-ROM drive will also be included,soft-
ware can be transferred from existing Amiga platforms, pricing has not
yet been finalised.
Contact Amiga Scotland on 01875 835 387.