Native Amiga Video and TV Cards

[Karlos]

JaXanim wrote:
@X-ray

I think you're exactly right and that's why I'm trying to understand how people get AGA stuff to display on their VGA monitor via the Composite-in on a TV card.

See CaptainHIT's post above. I'm trying to understand how that's set up.

Cheers,

JaX

I use the TV card in my PC to display the output from my A1200D (I rarely run AGA stuff on my main A1200).

It's a straight connection from the composite out of the A1200 to the composite in of the tv card. Then just tell it to use AV channel.

I did have loan of some SCART to S-Video type thing at one point (which could be used in conjunction with an RGB port -> SCART adaptor) which would ultimately allow an RGB -> S-Video connection (should be better than composite) but I never tried that.

However, the basic composite connection works a treat.

Now, if you have a TV card on your mediator, you can essentially do the same thing, showing your AGA output in SuperTV on your workbench. I believe there are also arexx scripts to run fullscreen AGA software on a mediator/tv-card setup.

[Karlos]

JaXanim wrote:

So it seems the Amiga can generate its native video and provide concurrent Voodoo graphics.

Indeed it can. I am sure that it's a configuration issue somewhere. As already mentioned, under CGX simply tweaking some env vars allows both AGA and RTG screens to run concurrently; I used to do this when I had a 15kHz monitor alongside my main one. I'm sure P96 allows the same.