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picasso vs opalvision card rev 2
« on: April 27, 2011, 12:22:40 PM »
hello

Can any one tell which is there best of these two cards an can u play many games using either of these two graphics cards using whdload.

I have amiga 4000 revision b with 3.0 rom

Is it possible to use a lcd monitor
 

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Re: picasso vs opalvision card rev 2
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2011, 12:28:44 PM »
Neither will play games for you. And you can't tell which one is better, because they are very different. One is a video effects card (Opalvision) including I believe a Genlock feature, while the Picasso is a graphics card. Your 4000 will benefit most from the Picasso, although only in WB friendly programs.
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Re: picasso vs opalvision card rev 2
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2011, 12:32:53 PM »
None of these card doesn't allow you to play whdload games.

Best solution for you would be LCD TV with scart connector. With LCD TV you would get flicker free hires modes 640 x512/400 PAL/NCTS and whdload games would work allso.

If you want to have true color 16/32 000 000 and / or 800x600 and above screens you need graphics card, BUT it would be supported only RTG enabled programs, like workbench, doom, napalm, wordworth, final writer etc.
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Re: picasso vs opalvision card rev 2
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2011, 12:52:52 PM »
74F245 Datalatch (A4000/GB1000)

Does this chip control the fast ram because my amiga only recognises 2mb
 

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Re: picasso vs opalvision card rev 2
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Re: picasso vs opalvision card rev 2
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2011, 06:56:19 AM »
Buy LCD TV, then you wouldn't need a flicker fixer.

Flicker fixer/scandoubler are needed if you wan't to use normal monitors, but as I said LCD TV would do same thing
ACube Sam 440ep Flex 800mhz, 1gb ram and 240gb hd and OS4.1FE
A1200 Micronic tower, OS3.9, Apollo 060 66mhz, xPert Merlin, Delfina Lite and Micronic Scandy, 500Gb hd, 66mb ram, DVD-burner and WLAN.
A1200 desktop, OS3.9, Blizzard 060 66mhz, 66mb ram, Ide Fix Express with 160Gb HD and WLAN
A500 OS2.1, GVP+HD8 with 4mb ram, 1mb chip ram and 4gb HD
Commodore CDTV KS3.1, 1mb chip, 4mb fast ram and IDE HD