[uae] Re: Graphic Modes with WinUAE
- From: Yvan <yvan_amiga@xxxxxxx>
- To: uae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 19:17:15 +0100
Hello Richard,
thank you for the answer. I need to free up some time and then I'll will try
it.
On 1.06.2004, you wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Tuesday 01 June 2004 02:54 am, yvan_amiga@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> I'm not sure if WinUAE questions are also allowed here but I try :)
>
> You can certainly ask, but I can't always guarantee to give the right
> answer. I don't use Windows myself. ;-)
>
>> I'm using WinUAE 0.8.27 on a PC with NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 Graphic card.
>> The Kickstart Image is from an A1200 (the new one that came with WB 3.1).
>>
>> Is it possible to use better graphic modes than AGA? Can WinUAE emulate
>> in
>> some way graphic cards (f.e. Picasso or whatever) or use the graphic
>> capabilities of the PC graphic card?
>
> It sure can. UAE has had the ability to emulate a graphics card -
> accessible via Picasso96 - for some time.
>
> To enable this, you need to allocate some gfx card memory in your UAE
> configuration. There'll be an option to do this in the WinUAE GUI
> somewhere - but I don't know precisely where. It'll be called graphics
> memory or Picasso96 memory or similar. Alternatively, you can edit your
> config file with a text editor and set the 'gfxcard_size=x' option (the
> 'x' here is the amount of memory in MB to assign to the gfx card). Also,
> you'll need software support for your emulated gfx card. That is, you'll
> actually need to install Picasso96 on your emulated Amiga. You can get
> this from http://www.picasso96.cogito.de/download/Picasso96/Picasso96.lha.
> The P96 archive has an install script and will automatically detect that
> you are running on UAE and install the correct driver. It's all fairly
> straightforward really. One final point: you must emulate a full 68020 CPU
> (with 32-bit address space) in UAE to be able to emulate a gfx card and
> thus use Picasso96.
>
> Hope that helped. ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Rich
>
>
>
>
Regards
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