Picasso IV on an Amiga 500?

[Miked]

I know there were other threads about graphics card, but I was wondering if anyone had any idea if this is possible?  Of course, the flicker fixer wouldn't be able to be hooked up, and it would be in a zorro II slot..but is this set up worth the trouble?  Theories are appreciated

-Miked

[Jope]

It should be possible.

You can also do an A2000 video slot, the signals are available from the motherboard / Denise pins.

If you don't have at least an 030 A500, don't bother.

[MastaTabs]

There is a special adapter for Denise and the PIV you could use to get the Amiga video signals into the PIV.

[Crumb]

@MastaTabs:
could you provide more info about that adaptor? I have a desktop A4000 with mediator with no videoslot and I may like to use it as FlickerFixer.

[alexh]

The A4000 doesnt have a Denise chip and so any A500 adapter would be useless.

If you have an A4000 you *SHOULD* be able to use any of the numerous internal A1200 Scandoubler / flicker fixer solutions which clip over the Lisa chip

[Miked]

Jope wrote:
It should be possible.

You can also do an A2000 video slot, the signals are available from the motherboard / Denise pins.

I've been searching for information on creating a video slot but have been unable to find anything.  Anyone have any documentation? (Of course the Denise adapter for the P IV would be a great solution but that would be almost as impossible as finding the PIV board itself - anyone know where to get one of these denise adapters?)

-Miked

[Kronos]

@Grumb

Most signals of the A2000/3000 videoslot are available on the RGB connector (it may be a bit different for the A4000 videoslot).

But there is allways another chance.

I assume you have the desktop-version ? As the A4000Dintower-version does have a video-slot.


You might use the orginal Daughterboard to trace the signals from the video-slot to the connector on the mobo.

Now find those contacts on the Mediator and you got a start.

[Jope]

Miked wrote:
I've been searching for information on creating a video slot but have been unable to find anything.  Anyone have any documentation?

Google for the A500 schematics, then the A2000 video slot pinout and the A500 RGB connector pinout.

Then it's a matter of soldering the correct signals to the correct pins. :-)

Check the PIV's flifi part if you can see what signals exactly the PIV uses, that'll save you some soldering.

[Miked]

Jope wrote:

Google for the A500 schematics, then the A2000 video slot pinout and the A500 RGB connector pinout.

Then it's a matter of soldering the correct signals to the correct pins. :-)

Check the PIV's flifi part if you can see what signals exactly the PIV uses, that'll save you some soldering.

Thanks for the good advice.

Just on a side note- were any drivers/software ever made for the PIV that allowed for dragable windows?  Did the Cybervision 64/3D support dragable windows?

-Miked

[Jope]

Miked wrote:
Just on a side note- were any drivers/software ever made for the PIV that allowed for dragable windows?  Did the Cybervision 64/3D support dragable windows?

Do you mean  draggable screens?

CGX supports them, but if you turn it on, switching screens becomes slower.

I've actually learned to live without draggable screens nowadays - I usually run a mixed set of RTG and custom chip screens anyway, so I can't make full use of it anyway.