CGX V3 Support Page

Notes

Upgrading from CGX V2 to CGX V3

Now that there is drivers for other cards I put this section together to tell you how to upgrade to V3 from a working V2 system. There is no V2->V3 update script yet. It is in the works. You must upgrade by hand. It is very easy to upgrade!

There IS a First-time V3 installer in the > r69 archives!

{gfxboard} can = CVision3D, CVision64 (OLD: Cybervision), PicassoII (OLD: Picasso), PicassoIV, Spectrum, Piccolo, PiccoSD64, Inferno, RetinaZ3, CGXAGA

OTHER NOTES

Manual CV64 V3 install text

CGXMode Catalogs

CyberGraphX V3 ViRGE 3D Demos


Other ViRGE programs can be found on the ViRGE Page

March 05, 1998 - New update to ViRGE demo, CV3DDemos13.lha: WWW .

February 03, 1997 - Updates to the 3 3D ViRGE demos. 3D demos now test for the availability of 68881, work on z2 and have joypad support added. Joypad support needs 3.1 lowlevel.library cyrrently. For CyberVision3D/64 with an 881/882. The picture of the girl is the base for the demos. Use the cursor keys/key pad to zoom/move the 3D cylinder. The 3D demos speed depends on how key repeat/delay is set in sys:prefs/input. If repeat is slow, rotation will be too. The cv3ddemo1 uses hardware z-buffering and is therefore slower than the other demos which don't use this. The demo uses a 800x600x15bit screen. The 3D Cylinders objects are made up of 144 polygons. CV3DDemos.lha: WWW FTP

ViRGE 3D Demo Snaps:

3rd Party CyberGraphX V3 Programs


CyberPrefs - New programs not by CyberGraphX authors.
MUI ENV: Preferences Editor For CyberGraphX V3 Needs MUI 3.6 & CGX V3 41.1 r54, MUI-CyberPrefs : Cyberprefs 1.03 (04/05/97). If you have any questions about MUI-CyberPrefs you can email Dale Kirkwood at kirkwood@enterprise.net
CyberPrefs.LHA: WWW
CyberPrefs Snap:

1024x768x24Bits with the CV3D


With release V3 r60 the CV3D can now do 1024x768x24bits. If you try to make this mode it can be a bit tricky. Sometimes the upper-half for the screen is missing or has garbage. What I did to make this mode was to run CGXMode 2.2 and clone the 800x600x24bit mode. Then edit this new mode. I use the 'Monitor-64KHz' defaut config file with this data on a Nanao F560iW:
Name:       24Bit 1024x768
Hidden:     (Not Selected)
Type:       24Bit
ScanMode:   Interlace
PixelClock: 46 
               Horizontal Timing   Vertical Timing
-------------------------------------------------------
Resolution     1024                768
Sync Length    360                 40
Pulse Offset   88                  1
Pulse Length   120                 0
Polarity       Negative            Negative
Frequency[kHz] 32.5144             40.2405

If you setup a screen in CGXMode and it looks good when you test it but when you use it for WB or to display a picture and it has alot of tearing or smearing you might try lowering the PixelClock setting. 50-55 looked ok on the test screen for me but when used to disply a picture had alot of tearing. Lowering it to 45-48 fixed this.

Buster



There have been alot of question as to what are the number on the Buster chip so that it can be check to what version is installed. Here is the buster section of 'AChips', that I have been working on. It's a guide of all the Amiga custom chips. I should upload it to Aminet soon. If you have a a chip I'm missing please let me know! 
			       Commodore	
Name                           Part Number        Machine Used In
------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Buster 5721 (Buster Tower)     318075-01          A2000
Fat Buster                     390539-02          A3000
Super Buster - 71              390529-06          A3000
Super Buster - 71              390539-07          A3000, A3000+
Super Buster - 45              390537-09          A4000
Super Buster                   390537-11          A3000, A4000
Super Buster - 45 1293         390539-11          A4000 (Soldered to MB) Dec 1993
Super Buster - 45 0494         390539-11          A4000T (Soldered to MB) Apr 1994

A True CGX V3 Story of The King and the Slaves



The slaves here working at the CGX mines have received many communications as to the stopping of daily updates. As the wizard Bill Nye says 'Please consider the following':

King Frank of the great city of RTG, from the planet CGX, has taken a trip to the planet Earth. His arranged marriage with the lovely Queen Ebba Blitz from the great Earth Kingdom of Sweden will proceed as planed. As you know King Frank is a great lover of women and likes to indulge these women, in this side of the galaxy, with gifts of Time. Therefore CyberGraphX V3 updates will seem to slow down as he bends time and space for them. There are still updates everyday but due to the side-effects of bending space the time, the delay for people on Earth will seem to be a bigger gap. The people from planet CGX or Uranus will not be effected by this. King Frank may visit the Earth countries of Switzerland and Djibouti while he is there. If you see him you may shower him. My the force be with you. - Master Slave, Robert

Late Breaking news: King Frank's Warp core needed to have the crystal structure realigned and stopped into the Tuvalu space-port & repair station. While between his silicon canyon trysts, he dropped off CGX V3 41.2 - Release 69f. People of Earth can now find this update below. With a spasmodic puff, from King Frank, his repaired Ebba class space ship left with expeditiousness speed to the other side of the galaxy. We can all look foward to another pit stop from none other than the Great King Frank, soon.

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