Expanding A2000 - vidcard and accel rec's?

[trilobyte]

Hey,

Do you want one of the TekMagic '060s I put up on Flickr over the summer?

Also the best RTG card for use in the A2000 is the PicassoIV ... especially if you have the Denise adapter.  Why is it the best?  It is fast, well-supported (I helped beta-test Picasso96's RTG support and PIV's firmware for A2000 back in the day!) and its flicker-fixer/scan-doubler fully supports the A2000, unlike the scan-doubler of the CV64/3D, which requires AGA (and does not fix flicker).

I am probably selling my PicassoIVs also, incl. Denise adapter (frees up the video slot for a Toaster).  You can consider me biased... but PicassoIV is not only the best graphics card for Zorro-based Amigas, it is also the best for the A2000!

Bear in mind that of course you need Kickstart 3.1 for all of this.  I don't think I need to tell you that though.

- t

[trilobyte]

However, if you absolutely must max out your A2000, trilobyte brings up some good points. The TekMagic/PIV combo is an excellent one. The PIV is easily the fastest graphics card for the A2000 (aside from the uber-rare DKB Inferno).

I would've had a Wildfire and Inferno had they not been completely out of stock and out of production in '98, thus I ended up with the TekMagic and PIV.  Second best.  Though software and hardware support for both boards would have certainly been even lower than what GVP-m offered on the TekMagic.  I had great support from VillageTronic on the PIV & P96 over the years.

I have yet to see any proof that the Inferno was ever produced... when I tried to get information about it in '98, all the dealers said DKB were "gauging interest" in the card.  Maybe there was /one/ production run?

The scandoubler is excellent, even with a few flaws. The TekMagic has a fast memory interface, and the onboard SCSI works very well (just under 10 MB/s raw read, CD to CD burning in a little over 5 minutes). The combination plays very well together, writes to the PIV reaching the Z2 theoretical maximum. Just make sure you have a Rev 6+ motherboard and a good PSU.

Seconded.

- t