BoingBoss wrote:
The Picasso IV was designed to work with the Zorro III Amiga computers. It does not work too well in an Amiga 2000. Try using a Picasso II instead. It was designed for the Amiga 2000 and works much better then the Picasso IV.
Wow, Doomy, that would be a really interesting point of view IF YOU WERE RIGHT, AND YOU'RE NOT. From the Big Book of Amiga Hardware (
www.amiga-hardware.com) :
The Picasso IV is a Zorro III and III auto-sensing graphics card. It has a pixel clock of 135Mhz (8bit), 85Mhz (16bit) and 85Mhz (24bit). It contains a built in 100Hz flicker fixer. If the Picasso IV is intended for use in an A2000, the flicker fixer can actually be "snapped" from the card and joined to it by a ribbon cable. This is because the A2000 does not have an inline video slot, like other models. It also contains a local PCI expansion bus, for which several add-on cards were made, such as the Paloma IV TV Card, the Pablo IV video encoder, and the Concierto sound card. A 3D module based around the VooDoo chipset, and a MPEG module were planned, but unfortunately were never released. The card also contains a 4-channel audio mixer, a CDROM input connector, a Flash ROM controller (for updating the firmware) and is endian agnostic.
Jumpers Jumper Open Closed
1 4MB RAM Force 2MB RAM
2 Auto-Sensing Force Zorro II
3 Forced 24bit flickerfixer 24bit & 12bit auto-sensing flickerfixer
4 Sync on Green disabled Sync on Green Enabled
5 Changed AGA flicker timing Unchanged AGA flicker timing
6 Reserved, Default DO NOT CLOSE
Lots of people use Picasso-IVs in their A2000s, you {bleep}.
