I'm going to build or rebuild an amiga 1200 project. I have to choose between putting it in a tower case or not.
Seems to me that mediator would be awesome, but is it worth the money?
I already have to buy an accelerator, internet solution, scandoubler and more.
How does the system work with RTG when you use stuff that bangs the AGA built in video? Do I need to manually switch things with some kind of vga splitter or what?
What about stuff that uses the built in sound chip? do I have to Y cable the a1200 8 bit outs with the soundblaster plugged into the mediator?
If you bought a mediator, what did you like about it? What did you hate?
Not sure its worth it. I may just stick with wedge case, pcmcia internet and indivision aga. What do you guys think?
Steven
What accelerator are you planning to buy?
If your monitor has multiple inputs, VGA/DVI/HDMI then you should be able have both RTG and native scan doubled plugged in at time. In some instances, when both AGA and RTG screens are active, you'll have to switch inputs manually on the monitor when chaning between signals.
RTG certainly makes a massive improvement to Workbench and other serious uses. Higher resolutions, faster display and now slow down with higher numbers of coloursm, well you just go straight to using 32-bit anyway.
Am I right to think you're using MorphOS at the moment? If you do, it might be worth using that alongside the A1200 for a while before you decide to go in the direction of PCI expansion and an RTG card. I'm just saying that because most people tend to abandon there 68k Amiga for serious use once they have a NG system.
I used Y cables to mix the paula audio with that of the SB128 when I had a Mediator setup.
