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Re: Graphics card

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From: William W Toner
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 00:00
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>autosensing card. Either of these cards are excellent IMHO! Then you
>have the PicassoIV and the CyberVision3D neither of which I know much
>about other than seeing on USENET that people seem to have a lot of
>problems with both of them.

The PicassoIV is a good 2D board, faster than either P2 or P2+. If you want 3D,
the only Amiga board that I know of supporting this is the CV64-3D. I've heard
it's slower than other boards, but has some nitpiclky details better than
the rest too. (Can do small scaling PIP, the PIV can onlny scale PIPs from
1 to 4 times the "real size", which Jim Drew seems to be the only guy complaining
about) The only trouble you might run into with th ePIV is software problems.
Phase 5 have taken it upon themselves to make their software make sure it 
doesn't run under the Picasso96 emulation of CGX. But real CGX v3 is coming soon
so this shouldn't be a problem anymore, and will also allow PIV users to once
again drag screens. (Something I wish P96 would do but they won't, some users
don't miss it but I do) The PIV also has a 3D expansion module listed on the
"to do list" but no specs have been stated that I know of.

Bill
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From: wwt6591@tin.cs.rit.edu (William W Toner)
Subject: Re: Graphics card
Date: 1997/10/12
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