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- From: storm@ar.ar.com.au (Storm/Cydonia)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: CV64?,PicassoII?,GVP-EGS?,RZIII?
- Date: 14 Mar 1996 14:55:03 +1100
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- Niels Knoop (niels@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de) wrote:
- : donald haas (donhaas@netcom.com) wrote:
-
- : > Basically which board Is the one I want?
-
- : A fast Zorro-III board: Cybervision64, Piccolo-SD64 or RetinaZ3.
- : The Retina doesn't have a passthrough for the Amiga signal, the
- : other two have. The 2 MB versions offer the best value for their
- : money.
-
- Could someone elaborate on the passthrough abilities of the Piccolo
- and Cybervision? I currently have a Retina Z2 and so am used to
- switching off, switching the monitor plug from the Retina to the
- native port, and switching on again; when I want to run a hardware-
- bashing game or demo.
-
- With the Cybervision, for instance, what would happen if I ran such
- a program? Would it somehow figure out that this was happening and
- display it on the monitor rather than the Cybervision display? Or
- does this mean that there is some sort of hardware or software
- switch to toggle between Cybervision and native display, without
- having to switch off and switch plugs?
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