Does a scandoubler do what I think it does?

[MarkAshley]

I'm just getting back in to the Amiga after a long absence. I've bought an A1200 from eBay and ordered a tower from Eyetech. I plan on adding an 060 accellerator, a Mediator PCI bus, and PCI Voodoo and Ethernet cards.

I want to be able to display the Amiga's RGB signal on the same VGA monitor as the Voodoo. Am I correct in thinking that a scandoubler will allow me to do this?

Thanks
Mark

[MarkAshley]

Thanks a lot guys, I really appreciate your help. Have found a ScanDoubler for sale at SoftHut, here:

http://www.softhut.com/cgi-bin/test/Web_store/web_store.cgi?page=catalog/hardware/accelerators/apollo_scandoublers.html&cart_id=7203021_5810

Would this do the trick?

Cheers
Mark

[MarkAshley]

No not yet. SoftHut is the only place I can find that's selling them

[MarkAshley]

Yes they are very expensive on eBay, even more than they are brand new  :lol:

I've just had a GREAT idea... I think   The Mediator supports TV Cards, right? So I'm assuming there is software available that will let me watch TV on the Voodoo card, also connected to the Mediator? So why not plug the Amiga's 15KHz TV Output in to the TV Card input and play my games in a window on Workbench? Would that work?

Edit:
Have a look at this...
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=35&products_id=310&osCsid=6039d3a4b0ceafee6267ce8a0b3e6f06

[MarkAshley]

Wicked  :-D

Just saved myself a lot of hassel with monitor switchboxes and stuff, as well as the expense of a scandoubler

Obiously this won't work with games I have to boot from floppy as the TV Card won't work, but that's OK I'lll just use WHDLoad or JST.

Man it's good to back with the Amiga, bringing back so many memories, and I feel like a kid in a sweet shop with all this new hardware!!!

Thanks a million guys

[MarkAshley]

I have actually managed to find a Multisync monitor for sale so I think I'll go for that. It syncs from 15 - 40, so should be able to handle the miggy graphics and thhe Voodoo too.

Yay!!!   :-)  :-)  :-)