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- From: niels@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Niels Knoop)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: CV64?,PicassoII?,GVP-EGS?,RZIII?
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 12:04:09 GMT
- Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
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- Storm/Cydonia (storm@ar.ar.com.au) wrote:
-
- : : 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?
-
- It's quite simple. You connect your normal Amiga video signal to the
- board and it passes it though to the monitor connected to itself while
- a native screenmode is active. If you have ECS and CyberGraphX/EGS/...
- screens open at the same time, it will automatically switch when
- flipping the screens.
-
- There is just a little restriction regarding badly written programs
- started off a CyberGraphX screen: If they take over the system and
- disable multitasking before opening their Amiga screen, CyberGraphX
- has no chance to notice it and switch back. If you really insist
- running such garbage on your machine, you have to manually open a
- native Amiga screen first (either by changing the Workbench screen-
- mode or by using a little tool).
-
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- | Ciao! /// Niels Knoop /// e-mail:
- niels@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de |
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