MacPicasso Graphics Cards.



MacPicasso Graphics cards offer amazing features for an incredible price!

With various configurations available, there is a board suitable for all users.


Power Graphics

Warp speed graphics at a reasonable price.

MacPicasso, Village Tronic’s brand new graphics board, works with all Apple monitors and standard VGA monitors. It's integrated graphics accellerator provides very fast screen redraws and makes scrolling through your favourite word processor or spreadsheet documents a snap. These features are available at up to 16.7 million colours on 16" monitors (19" with 4Mb versions)and in thousands of colours on 20" and 21" monitors.

Don’t throw away your old monitor!

Connect it as a second or even third monitor to your Mac. Have you ever worked with more than one monitor on a Mac? It’s marvellous! No floating palettes hiding your documents anymore. No more searching for icons. Just use the additional workspace. The MacPicasso is the ideal graphics accelerator for this purpose!


Technical Data

Graphics controller

  • Alpine 64 Bit graphics accelerator chip from Cirrus Logic
  • Memory

  • 2 or 4 Mb of 64 Bit 50nS ultra fast EDO video RAM
  • Features

  • Up to 180MBytes/sec image fill
  • Resolutions from 512 x 384 to 1600 x 1200
  • Black and White, Greyscales, 256, Thousands and Millions of colours
  • PAL and NTSC Video support
  • Plug and View :
  • Connectors

  • DB 15 Apple monitor connector with DPMS
  • Mini DB 15 VGA monitor connector with DPMS andDDC2B
  • 64bit video memory expansion slot (The MM2 upgrades the MacPicasso 520 to 4Mb video memory)
  • VESA feature connector
  • Frequencies

  • 15.5KHz - 84KHz Horizontal
  • 25Hz - 160Hz vertical
  • Computer Interface

  • PCI : 33MHz for MacPicasso 320
  • NuBUS : MacPicasso 320
  • Compatibility

  • Display Data Channel (DDC2B compliant)
  • VESA Display Power Management Signaling (DPMS) compliant
  • Small PCI card fits into new PCI Performas
  • 100% Quickdraw compatible
  • Accelerated for Power Macintosh
  • Supported System

  • Any PCI or NuBUS based Power Macintosh System or compatible (and BeBox...)
  • Warranty
  • Two (2) Year Limited Warranty

  • Take a look at the various models :

    Picasso 320

    The MacPicasso 320 fits in any Macintosh with a free NuBus slot. Just plug any monitor into the standard Mac-15-pin connector, or connect your VGA monitor into the standard high density 15-pin connector. That’s all! No jumpers. No adaptors. Just two connectors for your convenience. Supports Mac monitor sensing and PC monitor sensing (DDC2B also known as Windows Plug and Play.

    Price : £205.00 + VAT (£240.88)

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    Picasso 520

    The MacPicasso 520 fits in any Power Macintosh with a free PCI slot. Just plug any Mac monitor into the standard Mac-15-pin connector, or connect your VGA monitor into the standard high density 15-pin connector. That’s all! No jumpers. No adaptors. Just two connectors for your convenience. Supports Mac monitor sensing and PC monitor sensing (DDC2B also known as Windows Plug and Play.


    Price : £170.00 + VAT (£199.75) for 2Mb Version and £205.00 + VAT (£240.88) for 4Mb version

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