GVP Impact vision 24 is it any good?

[BIG-IRON]

OK yes its on ebay, so all of you make sure to go outbid me now that ive talked about it. Anyway is it a good board for a 3000? I just want pretty icons and a nice 3.9 desktop! I think gvp might still make or sell this card so its not a collectors item is the spectrum and impact vision different?, what are your thoughts? See links for info below

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search.pl?dir=video#s_impactvision24

http://www.gvp-m.com/egs_spectrum.html

[Kraftwerk]

This is a frame buffer card, which is used for video applications. You can not use it with P96 or Cybergraphics so it is not what you want.

[lorddef]

nah its sh*t

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/iv24.html

look at some of the other cards on amiga hardware.com

[sdesros]

It's fairly decent, but it's not a retargetable graphics card.  It's a frame capture, genlock, primitive switcher, picture in picture, flicker fixer type card.  You can use it with EGS (GVP's 24-bit graphics library + workbench like clone) but it's not useful for non-EGS software.

This card won't help you if: "I just want pretty icons and a nice 3.9 desktop" .  It's closer to a Video Toaster then a Cybervision card.  It's also a Zorro II card so it might not be the best thing to use with your A3000.

The EGS Spectrum, Retina ZIII, CyberVisions (64 and 64/3D), Picasso IV are probably much closer to what you'll need.

[Ilwrath]

I think gvp might still make or sell this card so its not a collectors item is the spectrum and impact vision different?

Nope.  The spectrum and impact vision (iv24) are totally different cards.  Really, the only reason anyone would want an IV24 is as a collector's item.  It's not a terribly useful card.

[BIG-IRON]

Thanks guys it looks like the cybervision is the best one but damn 200 bucks! a new radeon 9800 with 256 megs is about that too! is the gvp spectrum any good?

[Kraftwerk]

The Spectrum card will do exactly what you want it to do. If you get one cheap go for it. I had one once and it worked very well both with cybergraphics and P96.

[BoingBoss]

The GVP EGS 28/24 Spectrum board is better.  Get the 2-meg version of the board.  Then you will be able to use 24-bit mode.  Both the Picasso and CyberVision drivers work with this card.  This board works very well together with Commodore's A2320 "Amber" board and comes with a cable for that board.  I have a GVP EGS 28/24 Spectrum board in my Amiga 2500 computer and I have been very happy with it.  A few words of warning:  The 2 megs on the board is part of the Zorro II bus 8-meg limit, so you MUST use a processor board with at least 8 megs of 32-bit memory or you will get out of memory system crashes in 24-bit mode.  Do NOT go beyond 800 X 600 resolution unless you have a 68060 board.  I have mine set at 640 X 480, 24-bit and it looks great.  The higher the screen resolution, the slower your computer will get.  Keep in mind that most Amiga software uses screen resolutions of between 320 X 200 to 640 X 400 with only 8 to 32 colors.

[Framiga]

Hi lorddef

altough you are right about that IV24 isn't a RTG GFX card (and so unuseful for the guy) i wish to inform you that IV24 in the latest incarnation for AGA (Viu-CT with in-out in YUV standard for Betacam and MII) is the best option even now, for video production-frame grabbing and genlocking in some professional video enviroment.

Define it "sh*t", isn' correct IMHO :-)

Ciao