| Chipset(s) |
TMS34020@32Mhz or 40Mhz and supports up to four additional TMS 34082 coprocessors |
| Graphics Memory |
Up to 16MB. 4MB standard. |
| 8bit Support: |
Yes |
| 16bit Support: |
Yes |
| 24bit Support: |
Yes |
| 32bit Support: |
Yes |
| Display Drivers |
SAGE (Standard Amiga Graphics Environment) |
The Vivid 24 is a Zorro III parallel multi-processor graphics card capable of doing 160,000 polygons/sec, 25,000 shaded polygons/sec and 40 FLOPS per graphics processor up to a maximum of 160MFLOPS. The graphics processor also features a 3D vector support rendering engine. The video memory on board can also be used as standard Amiga memory for running applications. Various expansion kits were available for the Vivid 24 including:
- A Single graphics coprocessor upgrade kit, (1 x TMS 34082) with 128K of 32bit static RAM. (Max 2 per card)
- Double graphics coprocessor upgrade kit ( 2 x TMS 34082) with 256K of 32bit static RAM. (Max 2 per card)
- Video Memory Upgrade - 4MB VRAM (Max 4 per card, or 3 with video encoder)
- Program memory upgrade kit - 4MB DRAM
- Broadcast quality digital video encoder (NTSC, PAL, SVHS)
- Allows high resolution graphics to be recorded directly to video tape.
- Genlocks the Vivid 24 using either sync generator or any external video source
- Video Effects Generator
- Provides input for two video sources
- Special Effects
- Allows the mixing of both sources based on the Vivid 24 computer generated graphics.
Example Display Modes
| Resolution |
Depth |
Frequency |
| (4MB) 1024 x 1024 |
24bit |
|
| (8MB) 1280 x 1024 |
24bit |
|
| (8MB) 1600 x 1280 laced |
24bit |
|
| (12MB) 1280 x 1024 |
24bit |
|
| (12MB) 2048 x 1536 laced |
24bit |
|
| (16MB) 1280 x 1024 |
24bit |
|
| (16MB) 2048 x 2048 laced |
24bit |
|