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Title: CGX AGA
Post by: Amigaz on May 25, 2006, 08:21:47 AM

Anyone know where I can find CGX AGA?
Would like to try it out until my BVision arrives in the mail  :-)

Title: Re: CGX AGA
Post by: keropi on May 25, 2006, 08:37:05 AM

cgx AGA??? for what???? it does not make sense... lol

Title: Re: CGX AGA
Post by: Amigaz on May 25, 2006, 08:41:25 AM

hehe, sounds weird eh  ;-)

I know it's out there somewhere, have seen discussions about it here long time ago and there's screenshots on Aminet

Title: Re: CGX AGA
Post by: motorollin on May 25, 2006, 08:50:42 AM

What does it do?

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moto

Title: Re: CGX AGA
Post by: Amigaz on May 25, 2006, 08:56:36 AM

Not 100% sure but I think it's a CybergraphX driver for AGA, PPC only..guess it saves me alot of chip ram and gives me more high res screens  :-)

Title: Re: CGX AGA
Post by: A1200Power on May 25, 2006, 09:49:34 AM

Hi,

As i recon it should be in de CONTRIBUTION directory on the OS3.9 cd.

Greetings Henk

Title: Re: CGX AGA
Post by: Amigaz on May 25, 2006, 09:56:35 AM

It is? so it was in front of my nose all of the time  :lol:

Title: Re: CGX AGA
Post by: A1200Power on May 25, 2006, 10:01:11 AM

Yeah man,

Let me know what it does since i use a ppc as wel combined with a 64/3D.

Greetings Henk

Title: Re: CGX AGA
Post by: lorddef on May 25, 2006, 10:14:06 AM

CGX aga lets you use CGX 3 on an aga machine, by using cgx if you have a quick processor you can speed up some graphics operations. I used it for a while back in 2003 ish, didn't notice much of a speedup though.

here's a screenshot (http://www.amiga.org/gallery/photo.php?lid=923)

I used to have all the files required including a pdf document containg instructions on a cd, although I doubt I'd be able to find it, I binned a load of stuff like that when I upgraded to a mediator.

Title: Re: CGX AGA
Post by: zipper on May 25, 2006, 11:22:35 AM

And it doesn't work with CGX4.

Title: Re: CGX AGA
Post by: motorollin on May 25, 2006, 12:45:22 PM

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AMIGAZ wrote:
Not 100% sure but I think it's a CybergraphX driver for AGA

Sounds nasty...

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moto

Title: Re: CGX AGA
Post by: Amigaz on May 25, 2006, 06:02:24 PM

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A1200Power wrote:
Yeah man,

Let me know what it does since i use a ppc as wel combined with a 64/3D.

Greetings Henk

It didn't like my A1200  :-(
After installing it BlizKick failed with error code 20, after disabling BlizKick and launching screenmode in prefs my system locks up so I guess I'm done with testing CGX AGA  :-D
Will sit tight and wait for my BVision to arrive instead  :-)

Title: Re: CGX AGA
Post by: Boot_WB on May 25, 2006, 06:15:27 PM

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AMIGAZ wrote:

It didn't like my A1200  :-(
After installing it BlizKick failed with error code 20, after disabling BlizKick and launching screenmode in prefs my system locks up so I guess I'm done with testing CGX AGA  :-D
Will sit tight and wait for my BVision to arrive instead  :-)

I've not read the docs on this, but being PPC only it may require PowerUP kernel rather than WarpUp to be active.
Just a thought..

Title: Re: CGX AGA
Post by: lurkist on May 25, 2006, 06:26:07 PM

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didn't notice much of a speedup though.



I don't think you will, it is more a quick fix to get RTG S/W working on a non-gfx card machine (with ppc).  Does the job, I remember some program needing it and working well.  Since then I've re-installed and havn't needed it though.

Title: Re: CGX AGA
Post by: bloodline on May 26, 2006, 10:13:58 AM

CGX AGA came with the BlizzPPC... I used it so that I could run rtg software, worked a treat, but had no speed advantage over regular AGA.

Title: Re: CGX AGA
Post by: HardStep on May 26, 2006, 10:39:10 AM

As i recall, it really didn't need PPC cpu, only PPC libs or something similar.

Title: Re: CGX AGA
Post by: nicholas on January 29, 2013, 12:03:03 AM

Quote from: AMIGAZ;250706

Anyone know where I can find CGX AGA?
Would like to try it out until my BVision arrives in the mail  :-)

http://aminet.net/package/driver/video/CGX-AGA

Title: Re: CGX AGA
Post by: nicholas on January 29, 2013, 12:19:58 AM

I always found this useful too back in the day.

http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=175372&postcount=24