What's Better Gfx Card CybervisionPPC or Picasso 4

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In the perfect world I'd get a PPC + Picasso-IV.

There is a software driver on Aminet to emulate Warp3D's usage of the Permedia2/Voodoo3 3D routines. How many programs use the 3D features I don't know, maybe 3?

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With a PIV you'd be keeping your native 15Khz modes on one monitor with no switcher and at a higher quality to a scandoubler/FF - it uses the video slot. 15Khz is what Amiga is about and the PIV has optional TV input, output and sound card.

In my opinion Mediator/G-Rex are the spawn of beelzebub.

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If we look at things in terms of what's King, and put this in a medievil perspective:

CyberVisionPPC = King
BlizzardVisionPPC = Queen
Picasso-IV = A noble knight
OCS/ECS/AGA = loyal servants

Mediator/Voodoo = A wicked witch
AteoBus Pixel64 = A dirty peasant
Graffiti = A plague sufferer

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If I had the cash I'd get an original Commodore A4000T, Cyberstorm PPC, Picasso-IV with all the expansions, Videotoaster 4000 (what's the flyer for?) and a plasma display of some sort!

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EDIT: As for giving your machines a name, I've just christened my A1200 desktop 'Quasimodo' because the 1260 has warped the trapdoor cover and it's had 12 years of wear & tear. A few of the letters on the keyboard are now invisible and I have to rely on The Force to guide me.

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Ahhh, so that's what I've seen here:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8760237937

Seems daft having such a large tower and then having to get a seperate SCSI tower. Better if Commodore had cut those 2x useless vertical drive bays out and given 3 or 4 SCSI caddies instead.

Composite is pretty crappy for broadcast isn't it? No wonder a lot of American news/weather shows look grainy and washed out.

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Some Amigas are just skank.

Yeah, I'd prefer the classic Commodore A4000T but what do you put in those two vertical bays. The machine is wide enough to have accomodated two internal 3.5" drives or two 5.25" drives horizontally.

And you can't mount a CD drive upwards unless you have a slot loader!

I don't know how useful a Toaster/Flyer would be in Europe since it's NTSC only but if there were utilities to convert the end result to MPG you could burn to a VCD/DVD I suppose.

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What commercials/broadcasts/shows/movies used the Videotoaster? All that springs to mind is Babylon 5, Seaquest DSV and the Robocop TV series.

I heard somewhere Jurassic Park/T2 used it... or was this more Lightwave? I don't get how Lightwave utilises it...

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Here's a box for Toaster drives:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8762046071

Would make a nice SCSI tower for A1200 owners I suppose...

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Err hold on, am I hearing this correctly - a Picasso-IV in an A500!?

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