CompuServe Messages

Michael, The Firecracker 24 is basically a Zorro II card that fits in an Amiga 2000 or 3000 expansion slot. It can display up to 1024 x 480 (or there abouts) in 24 bit color. You can genlock the Amiga's regular display over it, or run it on it's own monitor. We've got one in the demo 3000 at the store, it works great. It's relatively inexpensive (as such things go!) at about $850. Impulse supplies a paint program & image loaders. The Firecracker is a good choice if all you need to do is display images. The IV24 board from GVP is far more elaborate & about 3 times as expensive. It's also a digitizer, picture-on-screen superimposer, and display de-interlacer. The board comes with it's own paint program, presentation, and 3d software. We don't have one on display now, but I have installed one. In a 3000 it goes in the video slot and the zorro slot that's in line with it. For a 2000, it is installed in a regular slot with a cable connecting it to the video slot. Looks good also! -Jim