Can games work with A Videocard?

Guys

I am after a Piccolo Video card for My A4000, will the games work with a videocard and VGA Monitor on the A4000?

James

[DrBong]

IIRC the Piccolo has a passthrough for native Amiga modes, but its Workbench emulation feature will not be able to display anything that bangs the hardware directly (most notably, games).

To play the old disk games on a VGA/SVGA monitor with a gfx card in your A4000, you will need a scandoubler or flickerfixer also. VGA/SVGA monitors alone cannot sync down to the required 15Khz frequency to display the games.

You can find more info. about scandoublers/flickerfixers, graphics cards and lots of other Amiga hardware in "The Big Book of Amiga Hardware":

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/

** For scandoublers/flickerfixers look in the "Graphics (non RTG) & Video Cards" section. **

In any case, the Piccolo graphics card is quite an antiquated 1/2 Mb card even by Amiga standards. You might want to consider buying something like a Cybervision 64, Cybervision 64/3D or Picasso IV instead. Some of the cards either have onboard scandoublers/flickerfixers or have the capacity to add one onboard, which might be cheaper than buying one separately on top of the cost of a gfx card.