I am attempting to handle this one step at a time. My next step is getting a stable "desktop" to work with with my arcade monitor.... which is what I am attempting to do.
Any suggestion on how to force 640x480 interlaced? Every time I attempt to use 640x480 its progressive. Is that the largest interlaced resolution a Wells Gardner K7000 will display? Maybe 640x480 is hard coded or something in to it?
It is very strange... almost as if when there is no driver (before windows loads) ... it's very unstable. Trying to get in to SAFE MODE is an exercise like none other... crashing at least 80% of the time... but once windows loads it seems fine... but I've not done a ton while in windows due primarily to the fact that I can't get 640x480 going and, well, I managed to find myself in a mode that both my PC LCD and arcade CRT wouldn't support... and it took a while to get back out of it.
EDIT: BTW ... FWIW, while I am new with CRT Emudriver... I've been poking around on PC's, MAME, and Arcade monitors (and dedicated arcade machines) for over a dozen years (well, PC's since my ole Commodore 64 days). While I admit I don't know "it all" ... I am firmly confident that given enough time and stress... I could find it out!
I'm a very "hands-on" kind of guy. ...and while my frustrations get the better of me sometimes, I rarely give up.
My apologies if my frustrations where offending at all. That wasn't the intent. To be 100% honest, I WAS a little pissy in general. See... I came in here to ask what a good MAME rig would be to build from scratch and when I got just about zero "specific" input, I decided to do a little research. Everyone suggested going with Groovymame + CRT Emudriver. I did a little looking back and forth between the CRT Emudriver page and my Amazon account and determined the best bang for the buck would be this 2200g system. So I pulled the trigger based on the fact the CRT Emudriver "supports" the 2200g (based on the official list of supported parts)... and here we are.
I was assuming at the time this APU had been used before and was actually a known working part with the software. It seems that isn't the case exactly... that I am treading on some unexplored territory. That's OK... now that I know this... I have no problem with that and I'm happy to help out where I can by doing my best to get this damn thing to work properly... but yea, I "WAS" hoping to build a nice MAME rig for about $300.00 that could handle anything ... and do it easily. Welp... at leas I have two of the three checked thus far... but that's OK... I like a challenge...
So I am back to needing to know how to get do 640x480i. Today is Memorial Day I am spending a lot of time with the family rather than out in the garagecade working on this project.... but I plan to poke my head out there from time to time when I can. BEFORE I do anything else... I need to setup a QUICKRES application to hotkey a usable resolution so I don't get locked out of the damn system again.
Any / all other tips/tricks/suggestions are always welcome.