Picasso IV - The Next Generation Amiga Graphics Card.

At last there is a genuine leap in Graphic card performance for all Zorro based Amiga's!
The PICASSO IV is the next generation Amiga graphics card, offering blistering performance and a "future proof"
upgradable specification for all Zorro II or III Amiga's. At last there is a board that not only offers superb
performance but also includes an integrated flicker fixer - opening the world of high performance, low cost SVGA PC
monitors for all display modes.
Hardware
- Integrated AA FlickerFixer (100 Hz)
- ZorroII, Zorro III Autosensing
- 1280 x 1024 in TrueColour (24 Bit)
- 4 MB Fast EDO-RAM
- Integrated PCI-Technology with local PCI-Bus
Optional Modules (in order of release)
- TV-Tuner: TV on the Workbench; Live-Capture ("Digitizer")
- PabloII : Video-Encoder
- MPEG-Decoder: Player for MPEG-1, CD-I and VideoCD
- SoundModule: AudioDSP, Wavetable, MIDI,...
- 3D-Module: 3D-Accelerator, Gouraud-Shading, Texture-Mapping,
Rendering in Animation-Speed
Supported by the latest Picasso 96 graphics card software standard
Software-Modules
- Digital Genlock: digital Quality, PAL, NTSC,...
- VideoText Decoder: reading, saving and printing of VideoText-Pages
Software-Driver Picasso96
Features
- 8, 16, 24, 32 bit Workbench
- Improved for use with Mac emulators
- Works with 2 Monitors at the same time!
- Highly compatible with software-applications
- Supports more graphic-boards of the same type (installed in *one* Amiga)
- CyberGraphics compatible
- ScreenManager is responsible for :
- Screens
- Flickerfixer
- Double Buffering
- Scaler
- Color Space Conversion
- VideoWindow (on the Workbench)
- Needs very little FastRAM
- Driver for Photogenics, Mac Emulations, XiPaint,...
- Picasso96 API available for developers
Planned for the future
- DPMS Powersensing
- DDC2B MonitorSensing
- Segmentation
Hardware requirements
- 68020 (or better)
- OS3.1 (V40; *not* OS3.0!)
Price : £299.95 UKP
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