Amiga Hardware DatabaseManufacturer Village Tronic, Germany | Date 1993 | Amiga A2000, A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro II | Autoconfig ID 2167 / 11,12,13 |
- RTG graphics card
- Cirrus Logic GD5426 or GD5428
- 85 MHz in 8 bit modes
- 45 MHz in 16 bit
- 28 MHz in 24 bit
- 1 or 2 MB 45 or 60 ns DRAM
- 1 MB (eight DIPs) soldered to board
- eight DIP sockets for additional 1 MB
- accepts 256k×4 DIPs, 45-80 ns
- screen modes
- 1600×1280×8 interlace
- 1152×864×16 interlace
- 800×600×24 non-interlace
- optional video encoder module - Pablo (
- FBAS and S-VHS outputs
- only PAL compatible
- 15 kHz overload protection
- requires a time base corrector if used with a genlock
)
- notes
- maps its memory directly into the Zorro II address space - speeds up manipulation of graphics memory but limits the amount of fast RAM to 6 MB
- with 8 MB Zorro II fast RAM the board has to be run in segmented mode - lower performance
- two 15 pin VGA connectors
- automatic passthrough
- Picasso96, CyberGraphX 2, 3 & 4, EGS and PicassoRTG drivers
- supported by Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD
Rev 1.0, front side
Rev 1.0, back side
Rev 1.2, front side
Rev 1.4, front side
Rev 1.4, back side
Rev 1.6, front side
Rev 1.6, back side
Rev 1.6, front side
- PicassoII.pdf
user manual (german)
19.6 MB
- PicassoII-121.lha
Picasso96 install disk v1.21
357 kB - PicassoII-15.dms
install disk v1.5 (27.08.1993)
413 kB - PicassoII-22.dms
PicassoRTG install disk v2.2
554 kB - PicassoII-24.dms
install disk v2.4 (06.06.1996)
595 kB - PicassoII-Install_Last.dms
PicassoRTG bonus disk and developer information
623 kB - PicassoII_MainActor-116.dms
Mainactor install disk
MainActor v1.16 (05.08.1993)
332 kB - PicassoII_Supplementary.dms
supplementary disk
647 kB
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