Picasso IV - what can it do that the other cards can not?

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Both - like I have, and Voodoo3, too  :-D

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If there's one thing I hate, it's GREED :lol:

Preferably stingy - won't give up anything which may be used sometimes (or then not :roll: )

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In the meeting they were {bleep}ting that they had a 400MHz 3D accelerator architecture in development to rival 3DFX and nVidia and what they actually had was a development board from a 3rd party company called... what were the called... something... brothers?? Bros? (no not bitmap).... Baltic / Scandinavian company cannot remember but their designs never got made. I recognised the photos from the web instantly embarrassing several of the Amiga execs in conversation.

Bitboys, Glaze3D (finnish) - I think there was some ideas that have been used further in 3D chip development.

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I am 90% sure that nothing was ever made. The project was announced in July 99. They had not even started doing the design in June 2000 as it said on their website they were looking for a designer to start the PCB layout. Klaus Burkert, father of the Picasso family, died in April 2001 and with him went any chance of Village Tronic making anything Amiga ever again.

Only MastaTabs aka Tobias Seiler knows for sure.

I think they were testing an adapted Mac Voodoo card as the source but because of form factors the PCB should be totally redesigned. It was once cancelled, then after PIV users collected some 150-250 names as sort of preorderers they continued the project until it got finally cancelled.