Re: Which card to choose??

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From: Steffen Haeuser
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:05

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 jsaarinen%kone.fipnet.fi@INTERNET wrote : 

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>> All around you are best off with the CyberVision 64.  Note that very
>> shortly the Picasso IV will be introduced, so the Picasso II will go by
>> the way side.
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> Any more information about this Picasso IV?


What i read just recently in German Amiga Magazin...

64 Bit Zorro II/III Board (against the rumours : no A1200 support...)
max. 4 MB RAM
Uses 64 Bit EDO-RAM (citing out of the article "should have the speed that one 
usually only knows of VRAM Boards")
1280x1024 256 colors in 75 Hz Nolaced
max. horizontal Frequency : 80 kHz
Pixelclock : 135 MHz (like CV64)
"Multibridge" chip for interface to :

- internal PCI Bus for the Highend VGA Controller of the Board and planned
  MPEG expansion

- Digital Processing Bus for planned Genlock
  (Genlock II mode with 24 Bit and 1-8 Bit Alphachannel supported)

- Multiport : For planned highspeed serial/parallel board that also will
  give the Amiga more slots (was not told, what sort of slots...)

- As to expansions of the Board : Compatible to the MacPicasso...

- Includes are available for developpers

- Price : Around 999 DM (1 $ is about DM1.30 or DM1.40, if i remember right...)

Release : May 96, according to the Mag...

Steffen Haeuser

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