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Offline TenaciousTopic starter

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Picasso II ports
« on: June 16, 2006, 05:10:41 PM »
I acquired a Picasso II not too long ago on eBay and it works in an A3000.  It came, however, without docs, disks, or cables.  I was able to install Picasso96. So, it works well.  Reading through another thread, it seems that the second VGA port is an input.  Did the PII ship with a cable to tie the Amiga 3000 video back into the PII to display native video modes?   Was there also one for the 23-pin video output of the A2000?  A flicker fixer?  

A xerox copy or scan of the manual would be very useful, if some one could help me out.  I think the cable could be easily made (probably straight through pins) if that second port functions as an input.
 

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Re: Picasso II ports
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2006, 05:20:31 PM »
A straight VGA-cable will do the trick if you have FF.

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2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
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Offline Matt_H

Re: Picasso II ports
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2006, 05:21:08 PM »
Yep, it's a straight-through port. Just plug the A3000's video out into the Picasso's second port.

As to original equipment, I believe the card shipped with a very short VGA cable (to minimize clutter) for just such a connection. Amigas with only the 23pin ports still had to use the Commodore VGA adaptor. I suppose a custom 23->15pin cable would also work.