In case you've missed it: A new graphics card for the PCMCIA slot is soon to be released.
The original information seems to date back to the Amiga 40 event in Germany, and was amplified by Amiga Bill when he put it on his YouTube channel in Oct. 2025, but some updates have been coming in over the past few weeks.
The upcoming "P-Vision" graphics card, set for release on May 16th 2026 at the Amiga Ruhrpott Convention #4 (ARC) in Duisburg, Germany, is developed by Oliver Achten, who also created the AmiGUS Zorro slot sound card.
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| P-Vision PCMCIA graphics card logo |
Some information has been published on various websites (see links below), and in an interview in "WhatIFF?" magazine Issue 5.19 (April 2026) (see links below), Oliver gives a couple more details about the design. The P-Vision is a PCMCIA device, thus it works with an Amiga 600 or 1200. A 68020 CPU and some FastMEM is required, though. It's a RTG graphics card with HDMI output, providing up to FullHD graphics resolution in 32-bit, equipped with a 64-bit blitter capable of ~320M pixels/s. The driver for P96 (Picasso96) RTG system is developed by Thomas Richter. ("...smooth, buttery screen dragging..." - O. Achten, "WhatIFF?")
Some of the specifications seem to be preliminary, full details are planned to be revealed at ARC #4. (Based on the information currently available it's not entirely clear what sort of sound support the device might have.)
It will be distributed by Alinea Computer (amiga-shop.net), but it's an open-hardware project aiming for affordability and simplicity of design, which means you can also build one yourself. The information required to do so is planned to be released after some months of commercial sales. The cost of building one is estimated at around 100 EUR.
Great stuff! The PCMCIA slot is the best i/o port the Amiga ever had, and it needs more love than just a CompactFlash card adapter. P-Vision certainly makes great use of the PCMCIA slot, and is an outstanding addition to the sadly very short list of Amiga PCMCIA devices.
As a sidenote: In the "WhatIFF?" interview, Oliver also reveals that he is working on "AmiGUS mini" soundcard for PCMCIA, and "Demon 1260" 68060 accelerator for Amiga 1200, among some other things.
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Sources:
https://amitopia.com/new-pcmcia-rtg-card-for-amiga-600-and-amiga-1200-p-vision/
https://aminet.net/package/mags/misc/WhatIFF5.19 (Issue 5.19 April 2026, "Talking Amiga", "Oliver Achten - P-Vision" interview) (.lha archive, AmigaGuide format)
https://www.whatiff.info (links to WWW-browser-readable issues)
https://www.a1k.org/forum/index.php?threads/87722 (A1k.org login required)
https://www.amigafrance.com/forums/topic/p-vision/
https://en.amigatronics.com/2025/10/25/proxima-tarjeta-grafica-pcmcia-p-vision/
https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8037
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