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Offline Ami_GFX

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Re: Picasso96 or Cybergraphx?
« on: May 15, 2008, 05:54:52 PM »
I have both Picasso 96 and Cybergrafix running my GVP spectrum card in my A2500 on separete partitions. Picasso 96 is faster and more stable. Cybergrafix has more features--like dragable screens. Both work well but I'd say Picasso 96 is slightly better performance wise and never crashes while Cybergrafix occasionally crashes--not enough to bother me very much.
A2500 owned since 1993 with A2630/DKB 2632, DKB Megachip, GVP EGS Spectrum, A2320 and GVP HC+8 on the inside and a DCTV on the outside. A4000D with CSPPC, Cybervision 64 and a Flicker Magic flicker fixer. A4000T Toaster Flyer & CSMKII. All systems completly retro and classic and mostly used to do geometic art as in my avatar.
 

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Re: Picasso96 or Cybergraphx?
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2008, 07:06:03 PM »
Actually, my tests are pretty subjective--mostly impression and observation. Like there's a few seconds of delay loading TV Paint under Cybergrafix while it's almost instantaneous under Picasso 96--this is on my A2500 which is loaded with memory but has a slow 25mhz 030 processor. And while you can drag screens under Cybergrafix, this is not really that useful because the mouse pointer dissapears on any but the first screen so you can't really switch between applications with this feature. So subjective opinion is that while Cybergrafix is more feature packed and ambitious code wise, it has some buggy corners and Picasso 96 seems to be more lean and mean--more tightly coded, faster and no noticible bugs.
A2500 owned since 1993 with A2630/DKB 2632, DKB Megachip, GVP EGS Spectrum, A2320 and GVP HC+8 on the inside and a DCTV on the outside. A4000D with CSPPC, Cybervision 64 and a Flicker Magic flicker fixer. A4000T Toaster Flyer & CSMKII. All systems completly retro and classic and mostly used to do geometic art as in my avatar.