I had the opportunity to add a second hand Indivision ECS V4 scandoubler to my collection of Amiga hardware this week.

I am familiar with the Indivision family of scandoublers for the Amiga, the first one I had was the Indivision MK1 AGA for the Amiga 1200 more than 15 years ago. I was very happy with that one.

Currently, I am running an Indivision AGA MK3 in my Amiga 1200 and an Indivision ECS V3 in one of my Denise Amiga clones. Being able to hook up a standard HDMI or VGA screen to another one of my Amiga computers is a real luxury.

I have always thought that not being able to view all Amiga screen modes on a VGA monitor without any expensive hardware was one of the Achilles heels of the Amiga. In my ”must have list” for an Amiga computer, a scandoubler is a necessity and not an optional extra.

That perhaps explains why in my current hardware stash I now have 6, now 7 scandoublers.

The elephant in the room is off course RGB2HDMI. But I think, untill there is a good solution for auto switching between two HDMI ports (scandoubler/P96) and untill there is an affordable/open hardware HDMI graphics card I prefer VGA. Because…

The picture quality from the Indivision is really good. As someone on an Amiga discussion forum described it, ”it looks like an emulator”. And…

If you take the time, and really invest a chunk of time into reading the setup manual, you can even configure them to display an even better image on your specific monitor.