#GVP
Michael-
From what I hear, Cybergraphics, once maturely deployed for a particular card,
is the best choice for that card. It's the successor to the Picasso II
software, and written by the same people. At this point it does not support
the RetinaZ2, and may never, so if you're enhancing your 2000, I'd say a
PicassoII is your best shot.
Cybergraphics basically provides screenmodes for the display database that most
(all?) display database aware programs can use. You can also use Newmode, I'm
told, a pd or shareware or something util to hijack apps that don't give you a
screenmode requester.
For the Spectrum, Cybergraphics is faster and more stable than EGS. C doesn't
support the RetinaZ3's blitter or 24 bit modes yet, so I'm not using it yet,
but I look forward to the day.
C does not allocate chip mem for stuff that's stored on the video card. For
some assinine reason known only to a few Germans, the Retina software does
allocate chip mem–that it doesn't even USE!!!–severely limiting its
usefulness.
C costs, I think, $35 US to register.
Mr. Zombie