#Picasso RTG Board
Our user group, Ohio Valley Amiga USers Group (OVAUG), demo'd the Picasso board
at our last meeting (5/25). This board is incredible (I am sure those DevCon
know this, but I am not one of those lucky folks). It is a true RTG board,
doing 24 bit at 640×480 (with overscan), going up to 1240×1024 (?) at 256
color. And fast. Several times faster than an A4000. On board blitter, etc.
The Agnus/Alice chips just sort of idle, since the board does not merely copy
from chip ram, it patches into the Intuition calls and redirects to the board.
No chip ram usage, and a faster machine since the cpu never waits for the
display. And AGA compatibility for properly-written 2.0+ applications (i.e.,
opens up as a monitor selection). Who says the 2000/3000 are AGA-dead? I hear
availability in 1-1/2 months (FCC, manuals, translation from German, etc) at a
MSRP of $599 for the 1MB version (2MB to come – field-upgradable).