Hardware
Amiga compatible machine with the native video hardware (original chip set, extended chip set or advanced chip set), M68040 or M68060 with MMU and lots of memory. 256 and hi colour screen modes require AGA.
Memory
TurboEVD needs a quite large amount of memory for its internal buffers therefore if you're running low in memory it might be helpful for you to know the actual memory requirements
Generally the amount of needed memory (in bytes) is an equation of
chip mem = width * height * num_bitplanes / 8;
fast mem = width * height * num_bitplanes / 4 + 8192 + width * height
* num_bitplanes / 8 / 4096 * 4 + sizeof(evd_context)
+ sizeof( TurboEVD executable ) + sizeof( c2p routine );
The figures for the 15 bit hi colour (32768) mode are calculated a bit differently. Chip memory requirements are equivalent to the normal 8 bitplane display but a considerably larger chunk of fast memory is needed. Use the equation above but use 16 as the num_bitplanes then add additional 96 kB for the lookup table.
These are of course cirka figures. In reality there will be some more memory loss but not much. Here's a table of needed memory for different screen sizes.
| Screen size | Chip memory | Fast memory |
| 320x256x2 | 10240 bytes | 32000 bytes |
| 320x256x256 | 81920 bytes | 180000 bytes |
| 512x384x2 | 24576 bytes | 64000 bytes |
| 512x384x16 | 98304 bytes | 210000 bytes |
| 512x384x256 | 196608 bytes | 410000 bytes |
| 640x480x2 | 38400 bytes | 90000 bytes |
| 640x480x4 | 76800 bytes | 170000 bytes |
| 640x480x16 | 153600 bytes | 320000 bytes |
| 640x480x256 | 307200 bytes | 630000 bytes |
| 640x480x32768 | 307200 bytes | 1336000 bytes |
| 800x600x16 | 240000 bytes | 500000 bytes |
| 800x600x256 | 480000 bytes | 980000 bytes |
| 1024x768x16 | 393216 bytes | 800000 bytes |
| 1024x768x256 | 786432 bytes | 1590000 bytes |