Best graphics solution for an A2000.

[save2600]

AGA & the Zorro III bus rocks, but that was harsh! lol

I gotta give some love up to the Picasso II here for a moment. In fact, I am quite enamoured with this card. Having sold my last A1200/030/Indivision, I used the proceeds to soup up my A2000. And I'm glad I did. The two systems should not be compared. The Picasso allows Workbench to look simply gorgeous. And I'm quite happy with the speed (much faster than AGA). Of course, I'm running an 060 in my system, but still. For the average price of a Picasso II ($100-$150), this is a no-brainer purchase for the A2000 owner looking to upgrade from the OCS/ECS chipsets. And as advertised, Chip Ram is no longer a problem with the Picasso II!

[save2600]

cv643d wrote:
Even with 060, Zorro 2 is slooooooooooooow..

(Ok, its not so bad if you run WB in 8 colors with no background image).

I totally and wholeheartedly disagree here. I have a fancy background image, the WBclock, taskbar and run my WB at 1024x768 and 16-bits depth. Not slow at all. My A2500 setup down below is snappier in many ways to my iMacG5 2.1ghz/2.5gb/OS10.5 system. Moving icons around, opening files and even surfing the web *can* and usually *is* faster on my Amiga. Oh and the Miggy boots in about 40 seconds. Not sure what you mean by an 060/Zorro 2 being slooooooow. Unless you mean opening up a large .jpg file. Yeah, that can take a few seconds, but so can 'preview' on my Mac system.

Amiga's Amp player when playing .mp3's is about the only real disappointment or complaint I have. That does slow the system down and big time. Oh well. Guess I'll pop a CD in and get much better fidelity instead  :-)  

In fact, I recently demo'd my Miggy to a few friends. Ran it through some typical work related paces which included visiting some familiar sites of theirs. Needless to say, ALL of them were impressed with the speed of my system compared to the modern PC's they are used to using. Some commented that my computer brought up pages faster than their Pentium IV's w/ much fancier graphics cards. That includes Java scripted pages and Ram: cached images & pages.