Video Toaster question...just making sure

[ErrethAkbe]

Hey all,

As I plan the installation of my "new" Video Toaster (2000) card, I am wondering how this is all going to fit together.

As I understand it, the Toaster uses the standard Amiga video modes for its software and then switches video on the toaster ports. However you still need a 1084-style monitor hooked to the DB23 RGB port.

What I would like to do is to use a scandoubler so I can connect a VGA-style monitor to this setup and not lose the hi-res video mode I am running in. I hope to use the Amiga for other stuff besides just video and I am not thrilled at having to now use the Amiga in low-res or put up with interlace flickering.

If I am correct, and the Toaster still uses the RGB port for Workbench, I can run an external scandoubler and do what I want.

Anyone with Toaster experience...have I got it right?

Thanks for any guidance.

[ErrethAkbe]

T3000 wrote:
Is the card going into an A2000 or A4000?  The toaster is fun to work with, but you'd have to be willing to step back to the lower video resolutions that it requiers to work with it. Best bet, get another Amiga and make it Toaster specific...

I have certainly considered this as an option. The card is going in a 2000, and the problem I see is that of course there is only one video slot. So, if I ever hope to run Toaster+Picasso I am out of luck unless, as you suggest, I get a second machine. It shouldn't be hard to find another 2000 on the cheap, all I'd need is 3.1 ROMS, HD+Controller and RAM.

[ErrethAkbe]

billt wrote:
I vaguely remember readong somewher ethat it might be possible to put some sort of termination sort of thing on the 23pin port to make the Toaster happy, and use the user interface software via a cybergraphics or picasso96 suported cards to an SVGA monitor.

Thanks, I'll look into this.

I'd imagine you could use a flickerfixer/scandoubler as well, as it would effectively terminate whatever signals go through te 23pin port just as an RGB monitor would.

That's what I am hoping. I am trying to determine where the Workbench gets displayed. I assume it comes from the RGB port. If so, an external scandoubler SHOULD work fine...theoretically!

Hopefully someday I'll have time to play with my toaster, which I'd prefer to use with SVGA via PicassoIV instead of finding space for a 1084 on my desk. It's amazing how cheap toasters are on Ebay these days.

I got mine for $20! The latest (and last, sadly) version of the software was only $29 from NewTek, too! Incredible. How could I say no? I've admired the Toaster from afar for years, now I get to play with one for CHEAP! :-D