22 June 2016, 11:36 | #1 |
Hardware engineer
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Berlin / Getmany
Posts: 11
|
New GBAPII++ RTG-ZorroII graphic cards
Hello!
I proudly present the new RTG-graphics board for all Bigbox-Amigas and the Amiga500: The GBAPII++ is now commercially available at kryoflux. We ship worldwide and VAT applies only for EU-countries (customs fees must be paid by the customer). The GBAPII++ is a ZorroII-card featuring the fast Cirrus GD5434 graphics chip and 2MB of video-ram. An automatic monitor-switch between an external VGA-source (e.g. flickerfixer) and the RTG-graphics is integrated. The card is developed, tested, approved and manufactured in Germany. The hardware-layout is open source at https://github.com/MHeinrichs/A500-GraKa . Compared to a PicassoII+ board this card 76% faster on a A2630 on the importaint RectFill()-function in P96-Speed. Further performance-results can be seen here. The development and support can be found in the German a1k.org-forum here and here. The minimum system requirements are Kichstart3.1, a 68020-CPU and 4MB of FastRAM and 2MB free in the ZorroII address space. The maximum screen resolutions are 16.7M –color up to 800x600, 64k-colors up to 1024x768 and 8bit color up to 1280x1024. All modes are non-interlaced with a minimum refresh rate of 60 Hz. The card is currently using the PiccoloSD64 driver from the P96-rtg solution. The P96-driver is shareware and not bundled with this board. A separate license for this driver should be purchased. However CybergraphiX support is in development and will be released, too. The Amiga500 version is a bit special: First, no housing is provided. A community based 3D-printing solution is planned. Second it needs an internal >68020 turbo card and 2MB free ZorroII address space. Since only a few Amiga500 will meet this requirement, all Amiga 500-verisions are BTO (build-to-order). Any ZorroII-version can be modified to an Amiga500-version but not the other way round. Best Regards Kryoflux & Matthias |
01 March 2017, 17:04 | #2 |
Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Amigaplanet
Posts: 645
|
There are still cards available! Buy them now, not tomorrow.
|
04 March 2017, 01:23 | #3 |
Dancing with Bridgeboards
Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: Bavaria
Posts: 20
|
It is a very good rtg card for ZII-Amigas, faster than a Picasso II!!
Nice card and NEW! |
04 March 2017, 01:39 | #4 |
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: The Ford Galaxy
Posts: 214
|
Yes, buy soon if you don't have one! I love my Matze RTG card in my A2000 w/it's native passthru and autoswitch and MILLIONS of colors! WB never looked better and the HW is new!
|
05 March 2017, 01:07 | #5 |
0ld0r Git
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Cornwall, UK
Posts: 1,613
|
Just as a matter of interest, how does this card perform in real terms compared to the older ZORRO III cards like PIV, CV64 etc?
I can see limitation of 800 x 600 @ 24Bit, but are there any Benchmark results like the AIBB database thingy? |
05 March 2017, 21:35 | #6 |
Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Europe
Posts: 473
|
BlindGerman@a1k.org did made some tests in his A4k. He probably can provide results.
|
24 November 2017, 00:09 | #7 |
Banana
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Darmstadt
Posts: 1,214
|
I finally got all the bits together to make this work. Unfortunately I'm seeing some graphics corruptions at anything about 800x600x8 but I hope that can be put down to a bad solder joint or something. My experiences in getting to this point...
https://amigadventures.tumblr.com/po...-the-amiga-500 |
24 November 2017, 07:21 | #8 |
Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 1,406
|
I'm getting a bit confused, is this yet a different card than the MNT VA2000 and how do they compare?
|
24 November 2017, 12:26 | #9 |
Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Stockholm
Posts: 4,344
|
Totally different. VA2000 is an FPGA implementation from scratch while the GBAPII is a slightly updated reimplementation of the old Picasso II+.
|
24 November 2017, 12:48 | #10 |
Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Germany
Posts: 527
|
More of the Piccolo64
|
24 November 2017, 17:56 | #11 |
Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Stockholm
Posts: 4,344
|
You mean not the Piccolo SD 64, do you?
|
24 November 2017, 18:12 | #12 |
Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Enterprise, AL / USA
Posts: 26
|
Great card, running in my A2000 with Indivision ECS. Can't say enough good things about it.
Wade |
25 November 2017, 02:10 | #13 |
Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Germany
Posts: 527
|
Yes, PiccoloSD64 I think.
And yes - it's an awesome card especially with an Indy. |
22 May 2019, 11:47 | #14 |
Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: Nottingham
Posts: 340
|
Im guessing these are no longer available ? ;-(
|
22 May 2019, 14:10 | #15 |
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: The Ford Galaxy
Posts: 214
|
You might still be able to purchase....
https://webstore.kryoflux.com/catalo...products_id=56 I was able to add one to the cart and go to the checkout. |
22 May 2019, 20:07 | #16 | |
Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: Nottingham
Posts: 340
|
Quote:
Last edited by Mark sealey; 24 May 2019 at 13:12. |
|
15 June 2021, 20:21 | #17 |
Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Birmingham
Posts: 65
|
I thought I'd just add a quick post here to document something I noticed with this card. I downloaded the drivers from Aminet and installed everything but was quite disappointed with the performance in Workbench when I used a screen mode with more than about 64 colours - screen refresh seemed very slow particularly with large text windows. I thought it might just be the limitations of my 030 system or a Zorro 2 bottleneck.
What resolved this for me was editing the tooltypes of the GBA PII++ monitor in Devs/Monitors. From install, there was a tooltype of 'NOBLITTER=YES' enabled. Removing this option really sorted out the performance and I'm now using 1024x768 16bit colour with quite snappy performance (considering I am running this on an A500+ with TF536). RTG games don't run amazingly, but that's just the limitations of Z2 I expect. However, for Workbench this card is just the job. |
14 October 2021, 09:43 | #18 | |
Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2020
Location: Finland
Posts: 2
|
Quote:
I was having the same slow performance problems with this card in my A4000, but this did the trick. Thank you! |
|
21 November 2021, 09:16 | #19 |
Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2020
Location: Chirignago Venezia
Posts: 13
|
what is the key combination to change from pal to rtg?...for example when playing with whdload
|
24 November 2021, 19:14 | #20 |
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2021
Location: Leeds
Posts: 5
|
In need of rtg advice, i have a gbaII++ rtg card that i can't seem to get a display out of.
I installed the picasso 96 drivers making sure I selected the piccolo sd64 driver in particular. I installed the gbaII++ driver software. I went into prefs/picasso96 mode and assigned settings to the card. The driver installers recognise the chip i have on my card. WhichAmiga recognises the card and how much memory it has. Sysinfo recognises the card and how much memory it has. But when i change the screen settings i get nothing, the Denise output goes grey but the rtg never displays anything, I've tried a couple of versions of both drivers and a couple of different monitors but still, nothing. At this point I'm stuck, I've got nothing everything should be working but it just refuses and I can't come up with a solution any help would be great and frankly a bloody relief at this point. |
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
Thread Tools | |
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Two identic graphic cards at the same time using RTG viable? | gulliver | support.Hardware | 5 | 16 February 2015 18:40 |
WB windows in graphic cards | AlfaRomeo | Coders. System | 6 | 07 June 2013 00:09 |
a (silly?) question about graphic cards on A1200 | loth77 | support.Hardware | 19 | 15 January 2012 15:37 |
use filters with graphic cards display ? | turrican3 | request.UAE Wishlist | 1 | 08 November 2007 07:43 |
Help on Graphic Cards | Fenrir | New to Emulation or Amiga scene | 21 | 31 August 2005 03:21 |
|
|