Modern Vintage Gamer – MNT ZZ9000 The Only Amiga Graphics Card You’ll Ever Need

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In this episode MVG reviews the MNT ZZ9000 RTG card for the Amiga 2000/3000/4000 computers. There’s even an adapter to use it with an Amiga 500.

You can pre-order your own ZZ9000 card by clicking here.


ZZ9000 is the successor to the VA2000 Amiga graphics card. But it can do more than just graphics: based on the Xilinx ZYNQ XC7Z020 chip, it features not only a powerful 7-series FPGA, but also 2 ARM Cortex-A9 cores and DDR3 memory.

  • RTG: Up to 1920×1080 FHD screen resolution at 8bit 256-colors “Chunky”, 16bit or 32bit color depths. (1920×1080 at 16 bit, all other resolutions up to 32 bit).
  • Enhanced VA2000CX Amiga native video passthrough functionality with AGA support (scandoubler with interlace flicker-fixer)
  • Dual 666MHz ARM Cortex A9 coprocessors to offload computing tasks like JPEG, MP3 decoding and graphics acceleration
  • 1GB DDR3 RAM
  • Ethernet interface: Get your Amiga online
  • USB port supports USB mass storage devices. The driver allows you to access USB sticks from workbench.
  • SD Card interface (for firmware updates, not currently usable from AmigaOS)
  • For Amiga 500, 2000, 3000 and 4000 (Zorro 2 and 3 compatible)
  • Drivers, firmware and schematics are open sourced: https://source.mntmn.com/MNT
  • Includes ZZ9000CX video slot capture card with cable
  • Includes metal slot bracket
  • Includes a minimal SDK with C examples for running ARM code from AmigaOS
  • Important: To use ZZ9000 with Amiga 500, you need a Zorro II adapter like Rob Cranley’s Z-500 or the Checkmate 1500 Zorro adapter.
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