Ateo Concepts’ Graffity boards reuse the same CL-GD5428 core as
Picasso II+ (CirrusGd5426::new_gd5428), so their register,
VRAM, and BitBLT behaviour is identical to that model. What differs is the
autoconfig identity and window layout -- Graffity has its own registered
manufacturer ID (2092) and wires the switch-strobe and VGA-register ranges
differently from Picasso II. See Writing Zorro board plugins for the autoconfig chain and
The video pipeline for presentation.
Zorro II layout¶
Like Picasso II, the physical board exposes two chained Zorro II identities: a linear VRAM aperture (product 34, window 1) and a register aperture (product 33, window 0). Graffity’s register aperture is 128 KB rather than Picasso II’s 64 KB, though only the low VGA port range within it is live.
Unlike Picasso II, Graffity’s register window addresses VGA ports directly at
the window offset (no odd/even port-mirroring quirk): offset $3B0-$3DF
reaches the corresponding VGA port 1:1. The monitor switch strobe lives at
offset bit 15 ($8000+): bits $60 show the RTG screen, $40 restores the
native Amiga display, matching Picasso II’s encoding.
Zorro III layout¶
The Zorro III board is a single 16 MB autoconfig window (product 33, no window tag) with three fixed sub-apertures:
+$400000, 64 KB: pure monitor-switch strobe trap. Writes here never reach the VGA core; only the$60/$40low-bit pattern toggles the switch.+$800000, 64 KB: the real VGA-register window, same direct port addressing as the Zorro II variant.+$C00000: linear VRAM, sized to the configured 1 or 2 MB.
INT2 wiring¶
Graffity has no board-level interrupt-enable latch of its own (unlike
Picasso II+'s register-window $1000/$1001 gate). INT2 follows the
CL-GD5428 core’s own vertical-blank state directly
(CirrusGd5426::vblank_pending), which is itself gated by the guest arming
VGA CRTC $11.
Reference¶
Board-level facts (autoconfig IDs, window layout, no-ROM autoconfig
synthesis) were taken from amiberry’s src/gfxboard.cpp GFXBOARD_ID_GRAFFITY_Z2/
GFXBOARD_ID_GRAFFITY_Z3 board table entries and their init_board/
special_pcem_get/special_pcem_put handlers, cross-checked against the
classic Aminet Picasso96Install package, which ships Graffity.card as a
first-class Picasso96 board driver. The chip register model itself is
unchanged from Picasso II/II+.