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Picasso II question
« on: December 15, 2009, 09:46:11 PM »
I read that with the right cable you can feed the Amiga's native RGB to the picasso II card without a scandoubler or flickerfixer.

Does that mean that the Picasso II once connected to the VGA monitor can also display games etc... ??
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Re: Picasso II question
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2009, 09:52:28 PM »
The Picasso II will pass through the Amiga screenmodes, it has a built in video switch.  You'll actually hear the card click when it switches between RTG and Amiga screenmodes.

Oh, but it won't scandouble the Amiga modes.  You'd still need a scandoubler.
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Re: Picasso II question
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2009, 09:54:48 PM »
You can feed the Amiga-RGB into the P2, but those signals are just switched to the monitor unaltered unless a CGX/P96 screen is active.

So if your monitor can't display a mode while connected to the 23pin RGB it won't be able when passed through the Picasso2.

Only the Picasso4 and CyberVision-64-3D have a Flickerfixer/Scandoubler builtin (actually it's optional with the CyberVision).
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