MACPICASSO 540 |
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The modular, ultimate solution for the Mac |
Features
MacPicasso 540 baseboard is:
- a powerful, top of the line, 128bit accelerated graphic board designed for DTP use
- expandable to:
- a really high end 3D accelerator engine
- a video encoder with Y/C (S-VHS, Hi8) high quality video output
- a TV tuner / video capturing board with RF + Y/C & CVBS inputs
- a real time video effect generator machine
- a super quality audio digitizer with embedded audio mixer
But first of all, it is modular!
"One for all, all for one!"
This means the user can:
- start with a basic graphics board
- choose any configuration to start from
- upgrade it step by step to a complete A/V system
- make it a really productive realtime 3D accelerator with video output
- make it all in one!
The fully expanded board takes up to two PCI slots. Thanks to the direct local connection between the different modules,
the MacPicasso 540 allows to reach speeds never seen with seperated stand alone products.
MacPicasso 540 baseboard provides:
- ultra fast 128bit graphics acceleration, it is able to work with millions of colors up to 1152x870 (21") and provides a
top resolution of 1600x1200 at thousands of colors and full gamma correction
- multiple screens and screen flipping
- supports seperated sync, composite sync, sync-on-green
- embedded graphics acceleration is provided for QuickDraw 2D and QuickTime (QuickDraw 3D with the 3D
module).
Productivity Booster Village Tronicís custom realtime DTP autoscroll featurePicasso Control replaces Monitors & Sound for more powerful control & ease of use: custom high featured and
flexible software allows to create personal resolutions to match old fixed-frequency monitors.
MacPicasso 540 baseboard benchmark ratings (MacBench):
10% faster compared to ATI XclaimVR;
20% slower compared to IMS TwinTurbo128.
Test machine configuration:
UMAX Pulsar, 225MHz 604e, 16MB RAM
Resolution: 1152 x 870, 75Hz, millions of colors
3D Overdrive modules
3D Overdrive I
- Ultra high speed processor, 2x 64Bit, 2MB texture + 2MB buffer memory
- 4MB of buffer/texturemapping RAM
3D Overdrive II (3D Overkill)
- 3 x 3D Overdrive I chipsets on a single board, tasksharing
- 12MB of buffer/texturemapping RAM
Adds up to 3 64bit ultra high speed processors with 400 MB/s bandwidth working simulteanously. Each of them is able to
address 4MB of memory that, added to the standard 4MB of the graphics board, brings up to 16 MB of memory†with 4
processors in all!
Thanks to the local buses MacPicasso 540 features 2 GByte/s of memory bandwidth.
Pablo II encoder module
The Pablo II video encoder allows to have, at the same time, an Y/C video output and a monitor output, in top quality.
Audio/Video module
Consisting of:
- a TV tuner
- a real time video digitizer
- a video DSP for real time video effects
- a real time audio stereo digitizer, 4 I/O channels
- a audio mixer & audio DSP for real time audio effects
Alltogether, this makes the real Audio/Video difference! Combined with the Pablo II video encoder brings a full featured
Input/Output video processing system monitor output, in top quality.
MacPicasso 540 FOCUS
MacPicasso™ 540 by VillageTronic:
The modular, ultimate solution for the Mac !
Best price/performance relation!
Our spectacular modular design targets at the DTP market mainly with it’s baseboard whilst it’s
versatility and upgradability also keeps the needs of a fast growing 3D and MultiMedia market in
mind.
- No adaptors needed:
- Apple video connector
- VGA video connector
- Full autosensing on Apple connector:
- firmware provides only fitting resulutions for your Mac monitor
- Standard version comes with 4MB display memory
- millions of colors up to 21" with full gamma correction
- Widest range of resolutions on the whole market:
- even b/w monitor support
- portrait monitor attachable
- old 12-inch monitor support
- TV-Sets supported (RGB)
- 7-inch board:
- fits into every available PCI Mac/Clone
- even into PCI Performas !!!
Standard resolutions
| Resolution | Colors | Monitor Size | Vertical Frequency
(Hz) | Horizontal
Frequency (kHz) |
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| 384x512 | B/W, gray, 256,
thousands, millions | 12" | 60 | 24.5 |
| 640x480 | B/W, gray, 256,
thousands, millions | 14" | 60, 67, 72, 75, 86,
100, 160 | 35, 37.5, 38, 45, 50,
84 |
| 640x870 | B/W, gray, 256,
thousands, millions | Full page | 75 | 68.8 |
| 800x600 | B/W, 256, thousands,
millions | 15" | 60.3, 72, 85, 100 | 37.8, 48, 54, 62.5 |
| 832x624 | B/W, gray, 256,
thousands, millions | 16" | 74.5 | 49.7 |
| 1024x768 | B/W, gray, 256,
thousands, millions | 19" | 60, 75, 87i, 100i | 37.8, 48, 60.2, 80 |
| 1152x870 | B/W, gray, 256,
thousands, millions | 21" | 75 | 68.7 |
| 1280x1024 | B/W, gray, 256,
thousands | n.d. | 61, 74 | 64, 79 |
| 1600x1200 | B/W, gray, 256,
thousands | n.d. | 96i | 62.5 |
| 768x576 | B/W, gray, 256,
thousands, millions | PAL TV | 50i | 15.5 |
| 640x480 | B/W, gray, 256,
thousands, millions | NTSC TV | 60i | 15.5 |
"Productivity Booster" auto-scroll virtual resolutions
| Resolution | Colors | Monitor Size | Vertical Frequency
(Hz) | Horizontal
Frequency (kHz) |
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| 640x960 | B/W, gray, 256,
thousands, millions | 14" | 67 | 35 |
| 832x1248 | B/W, gray, 256,
thousands, millions | 16" | 74.5 | 49.7 |
| 1024x1536 | B/W, gray, 256,
thousands | 19" | 75 | 48 |
| 1152x1740 | B/W, gray, 256,
thousands | 21" | 75 | 67.7 |
| 1712x2432 | B/W, gray, 256,
thousands | 21" | 75 | 68.7 |
| 2432x1712 | B/W, gray, 256,
thousands | 21" | 75 | 68.7 |
Specifications may change without notice
Price : £299.00 UKP + VAT
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