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Re: Is a 256 color Workbench possible on an Amiga 2500?
« on: December 26, 2003, 09:18:28 PM »
Picasso II cards etc. work fine in North America.
The best setup for a A2000 is a PII with a flicker-fixer.
Works great with only 1 meg chip ram.  The only thing
missing is AGA modes, but no loss, we all know OCS/ECS/RTG games rule  :-P
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Re: Is a 256 color Workbench possible on an Amiga 2500?
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2003, 10:57:55 PM »
Howdy,  the picasso II does not use the video slot.  Yes,
800x600 256 colors and more.

A short cable was provided with the PII which connects the
A2320 into the bottom connector of the PII.  The top connector goes to 1 monitor.
note*
A2000 owners are limited to 8 megs of Ram:, unless they own an accelerator card with its own 32 bit memory.  Should you wish to install the PII into an Amiga with 8 megs, you will not be able to access the the memory on the PII since it needs its own memory range to address the video ram.  You can remove 2 or 4 megs of ram, or run the PII in "segmented" mode which will result in a slower refresh.  More next week... :-P
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