Mediator PCI for A4000 non-RTG question

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KennyR wrote:
You already mentioned the two best options - two monitors or a scandoubler and monitor switcher. You could also get a monitor with built in switcher. Or, you even use a 2nd computer with a TV card and connnect the Amiga to its input - but be warned, the picture isn't so good (since TVs suck for computer gfx, generally).

You can use the TV card in the amiga to display the AGA output onto the Voodoo monitor. That way you get one computer, one monitor, and both AGA and Voodoo displays without having to buy a scandoubler/flickerfixer and monitor switcher. If you make an Amiga 23-pin RGB to S-Video adaptor (maybe by doing this), the picture will actually be pretty good.

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MrZammler wrote:
Is the RTG display still there when the Amiga switches to AGA?

Yeah. If you turn off the displaychain feature, when AGA screens are used, the last shown Picasso96 screen remains on the SVGA monitor, and the TV card continues to work even if the program takes over the operating system.

This is because the TV card works using PCI DMA completely independantly of the CPU.