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- From: Richard Lavey <richard@startide.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Picasso II VS CV64 and Zorro II, please help decision
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- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 96 18:33:06 GMT
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- Jernej Pecjak (uljff3@stenar.arnes.si) led us to believe
- in <2561.6611T757T2319@stenar.arnes.si> that...
-
- > Hi:
-
- > Ok, I've had it! The tower for A1200 is again more than 2 months away! I can
- > not wait so long, and I can not afford an 4000 theese days. So the only
- > solution for me is to get a Zorro 2 tower which DOES exist and a Picasso II
- > gfx card. I nw it is not so fast than CV, but I want to know this:
-
- > 1. How is it compared to AGA? Is it usable at least in 256 colours (AGA is not
- > for my DTP work)! Is it at least as fast as AGA in 16 colours. I could live
- > with that.
-
- I don't have AGA, but I find it usable in 256 colours !
-
- > 2. Can I have 800X600 resolution in 16 mio. or 256 colours at some decent
- > refresh rate. The AGA superhighres interlaced is not good. I have it at 84Hz
- > nd because it is interlaced it flickers a lot for 8 hours of work on it. Can I
- > get 800X600 at 70Hz non interlaced maybe? Yes, I have a nec 3d monitor (15.5-
- > 31.8 kHz and vertical from 50-90Hz). I don't know how to calculate if my
- > monitor and/ir picasso will be able to support 800X600X256 colours at 70Hz. I
- > can not go lower tahn that.
-
- The 2MB board will support 800x600 in 24 bit. I don't think you can have
- 800x600x256 @ 70Hz on a 31 kHz monitor : the Cybergraphics monitor program
- defaults to 50 Hz for this res. The best bet is to get a PC SVGA monitor
- for using the Picasso screens and keep the NEC for the native Amiga
- screens.
-
- > 3. Is Zorro II really so slower than Zorro III? I mean, I will have SCSI-II on
- > my turbocard so this will not be a problem, but the other things I want to add
- > like some fast parallel and serial etc. Is zorro II still a usable option now
- > PCI and Zorro 3 have been here for a while.
-
- I think that CPU power is more important than which bus you've got
- (although obviously a faster bus helps). Since all the Gfx card screens are
- kept in Fast RAM and then copied to the Gfx Card RAM (As I understand it)
- if you can't have Z3 then a fast 030 or 040 will help. Since you have an
- 060 then you should find things very fast !
-
- > 4. Is it better using a picasso RTG system or Cybergraphics? From the tests I
- > saw CG is somewhat faster. But do I get it with Picasso?
-
- CyberGraphX is definitely faster in 256 colour mode, and it also offers 15,
- 16 and 24 WB support as well (although 24bit is _very_ slow). CyberGraphX
- does NOT come with the Picasso. There's also the plus that CG looks like it
- will be the most supported system in the future (which is one reason I
- switched). You can run old Picasso programs under CG with the supplied
- emulation library.
-
- > Thank you for your answers. I can not afford to buy Picasso II and tower and
- > find it is the same speed as AGA so It is usable at 8-16 colours and not rock
- > steady picture. Is Piccolo better buy than Picasso II.
-
- From what I've heard Picasso is definitely faster than AGA.
-
- > Thanx for your time taken. It really mans a lot to my decision
-
- Hope this helps
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