rayt wrote:
I havent tried it out, but I think I have read somewehre that if you have a tv card in your mediator, you can connect the aga output to the tv cards input port and display it in a wb window. I doubt this will work with non system friendly games/applications though.
This does work, but only to a point. Yes, if you run a non-system-friendly game, the workbench freezes, but the TV card accesses the video ram of the Voodoo without the system, and so keeps updating even when the OS has shut down and the AGA chipset takes over. But this does require that:
a) The game can be run from workbench with all the add-ons and patches enabled (Quite a few won't and only work with a bare install)
b) The game doesn't try to switch screenmodes in a system-legal way when it starts up. This will cause the TV window to try to close and it won't update then.
I personally have both, bought the scandoubler when I encountered the problems above. I use both of them with a monitor switchbox (and my PC and Mac
). But yeah, definitely get the Mediator and MMCD, and have a telly nearby for the times you need AGA until you can sneak a scandoupler in past the wife
