I didn't realise powerstrip could do this! That's great. Any more info on how to do this, zebidee?
Don't worry about cooking your CRT, just install everything with crt_emudriver and modes with VMM, and only use powerstrip for enabling component output. Worth a try, anyway?
buttersoft, yes, this is how I did MAME to CRT/TV for the *very first time*, while waiting/looking for other stuff. So that means over 10 years ago! One clear advantage was no soldering. At the time I was recovering from wrist surgery, both hands (one at a time though). Ah, so it was 12 years ago.
Powerstrip was a bit fussy to get working, but very do-able (with patience as always). Too long ago for me to remember all details, but there are/were guides on the Entech forum (so register/subscribe and look there first). It involved setting up the component TV as an extended desktop monitor, so you can play with the modes on primary VGA/LCD while observing results on the secondary component TV. There was some other arcane stuff to do in the CCC, e.g. setting up as a "TV"/component monitor, may have to set sync polarity a certain way.
Once you are happy with the modes and feeling brave, you swap monitor profile (primary <-> secondary) and Shazam! Component on primary.
Alas, once I discovered the joys of RGB-SCART, and my soldering abilities returned, I abandoned my brief affair with Powerstrip-component as I had so many nice SCART TVs to choose from then (back in the good-old days of CRT scavenging).
cheapest dvi to component cable I found is around 12 dollars which is a bit of a high price where I live
I think I got mine at a computer fair in Canberra for a couple of dollars, but yeah it would be much harder to find where I am now. You would probably have to go online. The short dvi-component adapter dongle on ebay, that I linked to before, was $3. Got to be other online sellers. The actual/normal component cables set cost a lot more (I assume you have that already?).
Here is something on Amazon for a bit more, but it has component cables built-in. Note that this is a dumb or "passive" cable designed for outputting PC->projector for presentations/videos etc. The ad states "It DOES NOT CONVERT digital to analog or vice versa". You want it to be like this because you will do the converting with Powerstrip.
https://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-DVI-I-Component-Video-Cable/dp/B003L1AFBY?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-ffsb-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B003L1AFBYi want to be sure if I could make this work, because I've had a plan of getting a vga-scart cable with a scart-component. what gpu did you try this with? and whats your config?
It was 12 years ago, your hardware is similar but a little different, but I cannot see why it wouldn't still work. Entech still support PS and PS supports all Windows versions AFAIK, and this kind of AV capability is still useful for businesses. Pay the license fee (it was about $5-10 then, no idea what it is now but that is not expensive) and prowl their online FAQs/guides/forums. AFAIK this is by far the best place to learn.
I was using Windows 2000 NT and ATI Catalyst drivers, probably 6.x or 9.x. GPU was probably Radeon 9250.