A1200 RTG options

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It's not worth expanding an Amiga 1200 so much. You will end up with an unstable mess of a system. I have an A4000 with Picasso II graphics card for sale if you are interested? Also have an A3000 for sale with a built in flicker fixer so you can use any cheap PC monitor.

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My experiences with over expanded A1200s have always been negative. Flaky and tempermental. Randomly crashing for no reason. Dodgy edge connectors. Turfly horrible stuff.

Also, do you complain when AmigaKit jump all over the forums peddling their overpriced wares?

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So would a Picasso IV (Z3) be say, twice as fast as a Picasso II (Z2) when used in an A4k? Also, would a Picasso II benefit from running on a Zorro 3 bus at all?

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The Picasso II is a Z-II card, so wouldn't benefit at all from being on a Z-III bus.
The Pic IV is much faster than a Pic II, and would I imagine be noticeably faster even on a Zorro II bus.

A Pic IV will be a lot faster in a 4000, especially where there's much data flying around - the chipset is several years newer and the bandwidth is much higher on Z-III. Putting it on a Z-II bus will just starve the Cirrus Logic chip of data for most of the time.

Still better than AGA for most things, though, of course.

I always thought the Picasso IV was Zorro III only.