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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: golem on March 21, 2003, 01:26:32 PM

Title: gfx card question
Post by: golem on March 21, 2003, 01:26:32 PM

Pondering towering up my A1200 and getting a gfx card to work in a system friendly way with Workbench and primarily OctaMED - also it would be nice if I didn't have to feed non promoted screens through a switch box to see them. What is the best
gfx card for this? I'm thinking Zorro or PCI as I don't have a PPC accelerator.
Thanks

Title: Re: gfx card question
Post by: SilvrDrgn on March 21, 2003, 01:31:06 PM

How much money do you want to spend??  You could probably get a GVP Spectrum or Picasso II used inexpensively on one of the various auction sites.  For going PCI, you need the Mediator board which will obviously increase your cost.

Title: Re: gfx card question
Post by: xaccrocheur on March 21, 2003, 01:49:09 PM

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golem wrote:
Pondering towering up my A1200 (snip)

Don't. This will cost you more than a Pegasos/AOne, and the desktop 1200 is SOO Cool !

pX

Title: Re: gfx card question
Post by: Karlos on March 21, 2003, 02:31:24 PM

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xaccrocheur wrote:

Don't. This will cost you more than a Pegasos/AOne, and the desktop 1200 is SOO Cool !

pX

That depends. You can tower up an A1200 for nothing more than the price of the case and some graft with a hacksaw ;-)

It's the PCI/Gfx that will cost you!

The desktop A1200 isn'l always cool - especially with a 68040 inside it :lol:

Title: Re: gfx card question
Post by: Effy on March 22, 2003, 02:44:06 PM

Get a Zorro4 busboard, they are rather cheap these days. And put a Cybervision64/3D card in it. It's not as fast as a Voodoo3 but it works great and easy and is supported by Cybergfx and Picasso96 and not so expensive. Getting one on Ebay is also not a bad idea if you want to save money ...