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Re: Question about ScanDoubler and Mediator Video Card
« on: July 14, 2006, 10:51:24 AM »
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i'm going to be purchasing a Mediator for my A1200 soon. I'd still like my old games to work with my system. Will I need both a scandoubler and a PCI video card?


Actually no. You need a graphics card (eg Voodoo3) to make the Mediator work at all I believe, but as for games you could simply buy a pci TV card and take the comp signal from the back of your 1200 and put it into the TV card, which would let you either run games in a window on Workbench or fullscreen.

The quality is less than using RGB of course, but if you use a decent quality (and short) cable, I think it gives a pretty good result. Its the method I use.
 

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Re: Question about ScanDoubler and Mediator Video Card
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2006, 01:35:11 PM »
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oh yeah, the TV-Tuner solution, the poor-man's scandoubler... crap quality though, ...


I think "crap" is a bit harsh, its certainly not great quality but for the price of a TV card on Ebay you could afford to get one and decide if it was acceptable. I think I'm right in saying that external scandoublers don't give perfect colour, so even that maybe a slight compromise.

As I say though, buying a decent quality lead improved the result quite a bit.
 

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Re: Question about ScanDoubler and Mediator Video Card
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2006, 04:30:56 PM »
> ...just to get some things straight here...

A couple of points.

I've not had a problem myself with getting non-WHDLoad games fullscreen as luckily they have allowed me to insert a WAIT command before they start. I use this with games like UFO, The Settlers and JetPilot. I wasn't wild about the WHDLoad patch for UFO.

Alan Redhouse told me that the internal scandoublers provided better colour quality than external ones.

My TV card provides a better display on my Belinea monitor than I get on my Amiga monitors or TV, but in fairness they have seen better days. :) Joking apart though, it really isn't a bad display.


........and another thing (edit)

Getting an RGB to S-Video solution is not straightforward. I don't think you'll find anything you can buy to do the job, which leaves fixing it yourself. There is a document on the web that tells you how to convert an A520 modulator to give an S-Video output. I managed to get a professional electronics engineer to take this on as a favour. He followed the steps, and tweaked it around but could not get it to work as described.

In fairness it could have been a different revision of Modulator, but at the end of the day, this solution did not prove to be as easy or as straightforward as advertised.