scandoubler or flickerfixer or are they same? Please help me.

[patrik]

@Apache2k:

You need to make sure that you have no more than 4MB fastmem mapped in the Zorro2 address-space. This is because the Zorro2 address-space is only 8MB big and the CV64/3D needs 4MB of it to map its Video-RAM. Fastmem on Zorro2-cards is always mapped in the Zorro2 address-space and so is often the 32-bit fastmem on many turbocards. My advice would be that you make sure you have a maximum of 4MB fastmem in your system and then try the CV64/3D. What turbocard do you have btw?


/Patrik

[x56h34]

Another important thing that he needs to find out is if CV64/3D works with 68020 cpus. Perhaps the minimum required is 68030?

[guest1255]

Turbo: Hurricane A500/A2000 is this ok?
And is this max memory olso including the system chip 1 mb memory?

My only problem/thing that i dont know is:
I have also the flickerfixer, is this also needed or is it useless with the CV. Can i just plub the CV and a vga and use the high resulutions?

Thank you.

[patrik]

@Apache2k:

This maximum amount of Zorro2-mapped fastmem does not include the chipmem.

The flickerfixer will be useful for displaying the native Amiga chipset output on a VGA-monitor as the CV64/3D will not take over the role of the Amiga chipset. To display something via the CV64/3D you will have to use either CyberGraphX or Picasso96 which is are two "gfx-card systems" to allow you to display system-friendly software on addon gfx-cards like amongst others - the CV64/3D. To have easy access to both the Amiga chipset output and the CV64/3D output, you will either have to use a monitor-switcher to switch between the two outputs (CV64/3D and the flickerfixer) or two use two monitors - one connected to the CV64/3D and one connected to the flickerfixer.

I also take for granted that the CV64/3D will need 4MB of continuous Zorro2 address-space. To verify that there is atleast 4MB continuous Zorro2 address-space, you can type 'showconfig' in a shell to see where the systems memory is mapped and then use those addresses to calculate if there is a continious gap  of atleast 4MB where nothing is mapped in the 8MB Zorro2 address-space which ranges from address 0x200000 to 0xA00000. If that aint the case even if you have a max of 4MB fastmem, I am quite sure you can change where the Hurricane 500 maps its memory as that is controlled by the Hurricane 500 software.


/Patrik

[guest1255]

Hmm, i see... and are CyberGraphX / Picasso96 software or hardware? If hardware then are they for free?

Thanks again..

[patrik]

@Apache2k:

The hardware is in your case the CV64/3D. CyberGraphX and Picasso96 are software-packages which in essense adds the resolutions available on your CV64/3D as normal screenmodes in your system.

Picasso96 is shareware and can be found information about here and can be downloaded here.

CyberGraphX is a commercial product and you can find information about it here. The previous version of CyberGraphX - version 3 is free and can be found info about here and here and can be downloaded here.

If that 4MB continious Zorro2 address-space calculation sounded quirky, post the output of showconfig here and I can help you with it.


/Patrik

[guest1255]

Thank you a billion time to being patient with my question.
I think i did get good information now and will try these things   and let you know what happen.
Apache2k