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Retina Zorro2 gfx card
« on: January 17, 2004, 03:39:39 AM »
On german Ebay there is a Retina Z2 gfx card for sale, but can anyone tell yhich soft you need to get it working ?? It seems that Cybergfx and Picasso96 won´t do it ...

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Re: Retina Zorro2 gfx card
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2004, 03:44:03 AM »
You'll need the Retina software, available at www.l8r.net in the installers section.  I also remember seeing something about Retina Z2 support in an upcoming CGX release (4.4???).
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Re: Retina Zorro2 gfx card
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2004, 04:00:10 AM »
*me has a Retina,

     It has it's own software RetinaEmu, which is NOT CGX compatible, but it does do a pretty decent AGA emulation, especially if you have 2meg chip.
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Re: Retina Zorro2 gfx card
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2004, 09:51:12 PM »
I would guess it would depend on what machine
you are going to put it in.

Its a Z-2 card so will work in any A2, A3 or A4000.
But if you are going to use it in an A3 or 4000,
I would probably look for a better card.
I have an A3k and had a Retina Z-2 card.
I now have a Cybervision64 card and I like it
much better.
Stealth ONE  8-)
 

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Re: Retina Zorro2 gfx card
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2004, 11:54:32 PM »
The best thing about the RetinaZ2 is that you can pull the RAM off the card and stuff it into your A3000 as Fast-RAM (most of those cards are bought for this reason today).

The RetinaEmu isn`t bad (had a RetinaZ2 for a short time myselfe) but since it isn`t CGX/P96 compatibel I wouldn`t suggest it for serious use today.
It`s a nice enough card for a toyaround system but not if you are really useing that Amiga.
Not really interesting, but it`s there.
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Re: Retina Zorro2 gfx card
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2004, 03:21:18 AM »
IamgeFX, Aladdin 4D support it, I'm pretty sure Lightwave supports it too, and it has tight 8bit AGA handling...
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Re: Retina Zorro2 gfx card
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2004, 02:19:31 PM »
think it was sold for 11,50 euro excl. porto ...