The ultimate combination (AGA/GFX)

[Legerdemain]

...I'm quite qurious about what the ultimate solution for using both AGA/GFX-card on one and the same monitor is...

I haven't really managed to get it straight what is needed and what is a good combination...

A scandoubler, yes, but is a monitorswitch needed as well? Like using DCE ScanMagic ff together with BMon, or the like?

As far as I've managed to reach in my research I have yet to find a solution which actually automatically switches from AGA to the GFX-cards output witouth manually doing anything...

(and this is concerning an A1200 boxed in a Mirage Tower with a Voodoo card installed).

[lorddef]

My Picasso II claims to pass through the amigas video whenever a native screen is displayed, but I haven't put it in my amiga yet so I'm not sure how well it works.

[lempkee]

lorddef: yes it has , but will only work in bigboxed setups , not a1200 with zorro 2 etc.

a shame really but thats why i bought a mediator  and i dont regret it


bvision and cvision has passtrough ports don't they ? .

cheers

[lempkee]

legerdemain: buy a tvcard and put aga/ecs output into tv card and activate passtrough function on tv card (in voodoo icon) ..will work but quality will diffrent from card to card.

cheers

[Lando]

Put a TV card in the Mediator (I used a WinTV GO! which cost about £20), connect A1200 composite video out to composite video-in on the TV card, and there you go.

[Kronos]

@lempkee

Oh yes the Picasso2 would also offer that in an A1200, cos it has an VGA-input.
where you could connect your AGA-ouput to (via FF if you want to see the 15khz-modes).

Same goes for the Picollo/Spektrum, the CV,CV64 and some others.

Picasso4 and CV64-3D are a differnt matter so.

[Legerdemain]

...but what about fullscreen, sharpness e.t.c.? Will I be able to see 320*200 screen in full on the monitor without any boring black borders?

[lorddef]

@kronos

Yeh I intend to feed the amiga signal back in after it's been through my sd/ff.