Picasso IV

Technical Data

Hardware

• Integrated AA FlickerFixer (100 Hz)
• ZorroII, Zorro III Autosensing
• 1280 x 1024 in TrueColour (24 Bit)
• 4 MB Fast EDO-RAM
• Integrated PCI-Technology with local PCI-Bus

Optional Modules (in order of release)

• TV-Tuner: TV on the Workbench; Live-Capture ("Digitizer")
• PabloII : Video-Encoder
• MPEG-Decoder: Player for MPEG-1, CD-I and VideoCD
• SoundModule: AudioDSP, Wavetable, MIDI,...
• 3D-Module: 3D-Accelerator, Gouraud-Shading, Texture-Mapping, Rendering in Animation-Speed

Supported by the latest Picasso 96 graphics card software standard

Software-Modules

• Digital Genlock: digital Quality, PAL, NTSC,...
• VideoText Decoder: reading, saving and printing of VideoText-Pages

Software-Driver Picasso96

Features

• 8, 16, 24, 32 bit Workbench
• Improved for use with Mac emulators
• Works with 2 Monitors at the same time!
• Highly compatible with software-applications
• Supports more graphic-boards of the same type (installed in *one* Amiga)
• CyberGraphics compatible
• ScreenManager is responsible for :
  • Screens
  • Flickerfixer
  • Double Buffering
  • Scaler
  • Color Space Conversion
  • VideoWindow (on the Workbench)
• Needs very little FastRAM
• Driver for Photogenics, Mac Emulations, XiPaint,...
• Picasso96 API available for developers

Planned for the future

• DPMS Powersensing
• DDC2B MonitorSensing
• Segmentation

Hardware requirements

• 68020 (or better)
• OS3.1 (V40; OS3.0 starting from Picasso96 1.17 only!)