| From: | Derek Lawson |
| Date: | 8 May 2000 at 00:25:29 |
| Subject: | Amiga OS 3.5 and Picasso II |
I am still having trouble getting OS 3.5 to run with an original 1mb
Picasso II card. First I will give you my system specs.
Amiga 2000
3.1 romset
2mb chip ram with DKB Megachip
14mb fast ram on GVP A4008 SCSI controller card
500mb Quantum SCSI drive
1mb Picasso II
Derringer '030 accelerator with no FPU running at 40htz
8x SCSI CD-drive
Commodore A2320 (I think) flicker-fixer/doubler
I loaded 3.1 from disks. I loaded AsimCDFS drivers. I loaded 3.5 over
3.1. I then loaded Picasso96 from the OS 3.5 cd. Doesn't work.
I had the Picasso card working under 3.1 in segmented mode. Picasso96
would not install in segmented mode. It recognized the card correctly
and informed me that it would not work in segmented mode. I removed the
jumper for segmentation and installed the software. Ironically, when I
boot holding both mouse buttons down and check cards, the Picasso comes
up defective with segmentation jumper off. When I put the jumper on, it
reports that the card is working correctly.
I started over following the above steps. Instead of loading Picasso96,
I tried Cybergraphics. I get an error that a library.v22 is missing. I
searched Aminet and the OS 3.5 cd and could not find the correct driver.
I had v20.
So now I'm wondering where to go from here. I had all this working
correctly under 3.1. I bought 3.5 for the TCP/IP stack (which I didn't
get). I really want to keep my Amiga 2000 but it is becoming too
difficult to maintain. I don't want to invest a lot of money in another
video card such as the Picasso IV but there are still some programs that
I run that will not work under WinUAE. I have to tell you, though, I
have OS 3.5 working under WinUAE (a remarkable piece of work) on a
Pentium II 450 (I know, I know....the darkside!) and it is blindingly
fast.
Anyone who may have any information on the setup and configuration of a
Picasso II card, please get in touch.
....otherwise, I'm about two steps from parting out my beloved Amiga,
and buying a Pentium III processor.
Thanks in advance.
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