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- From: jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl (Jaco Schoonen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: PicassoII best graphics card?
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 01:54:00 +0200
- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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- Geoff Adams (etlgyas@etlxdmx.ericsson.se) wrote:
- : Hi there
-
- : I'm attracted to the Picasso because of it's low price, only 2/3 the
- : cost of a Cybervision, and it seems the most popular, but will it deliver
- : the 50% speed increase I'm expecting in supported applications over AGA?
-
- Note that the PicassoII is a Zorro2 card. This is quite a bottleneck, so if
- you could afford it I'd suggest you go for a Zorri3 card. It's way faster
- than AGA anyway... I suppose much more than 50%
-
-
- : I'm actually thinking of selling my CBM 040 card and getting a CDROM
- : and the Picasso, is this a wise decision?
-
- Without your 040 card you won't have a cpu anymore, so there's not much cpu
- power left to play with you new toys. So I suggest you keep your cpu card.
- Not very wise IMO
- --
- Jaco Schoonen
- (jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl)
-