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Arcade CRT from HDMI Intel Laptop
brained:
Probably this question has been answered tons of times, but I can't find relevant information in the forums about the subject.
I currently have my cabinet running a Samsung SyncMaster 21" crt with a Pentium 4 PC. Recently I've got a new laptop with an Intel I7 and Intel Integrated Graphics. After years of searching, I finally found a CRT Monitor for my cab. I only got a picture for the label of the CRT tube because I haven't picked it up yet. The only thing I have is a Label that shows 73SX707Y22.
After doing some google search it seems to be a Sanwa 29" arcade monitor. Well, long story short. I'm planning on using Batocera for the arcade machine and I wanna know the correct path of hooking this monitor to the computer. What do I need besides a HDMI to VGA and a Spliced VGA cable for the output.
lilshawn:
going to need to know exactly what model the monitor is before anyone is going to be able to submit any kind of information on how to connect it.
could be as easy as HDMI to VGA adapter... but depending on the monitor, it may be incapable of a resolution as high as 640x480 in which case you are going to have to use a scaler to drop the resolution down to whatever the monitor is capable of.
buttersoft:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on February 02, 2023, 12:45:08 pm ---going to need to know exactly what model the monitor is before anyone is going to be able to submit any kind of information on how to connect it.
could be as easy as HDMI to VGA adapter... but depending on the monitor, it may be incapable of a resolution as high as 640x480 in which case you are going to have to use a scaler to drop the resolution down to whatever the monitor is capable of.
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Surely something like Groovyarcade can push 15kHz directly for a more accurate experience. There must be other distros that can as well. I would have thought the scaler wasn't strictly necessary
lilshawn:
--- Quote from: buttersoft on February 02, 2023, 05:13:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: lilshawn on February 02, 2023, 12:45:08 pm ---going to need to know exactly what model the monitor is before anyone is going to be able to submit any kind of information on how to connect it.
could be as easy as HDMI to VGA adapter... but depending on the monitor, it may be incapable of a resolution as high as 640x480 in which case you are going to have to use a scaler to drop the resolution down to whatever the monitor is capable of.
--- End quote ---
Surely something like Groovyarcade can push 15kHz directly for a more accurate experience. There must be other distros that can as well. I would have thought the scaler wasn't strictly necessary
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i was going to suggest this, but i wasn't sure if something like soft15k, or what have you, could get the iGPU to do that or not. i know they can be a little weird when you try and make them do stuff.
buttersoft:
well, i know an iGPU on windows is pretty much a no-go for 15kHz. So that rules out soft15kHz. I would have thought Linux could do it tho. But i don't use Linux much, let alone Groovyarcade.
A good place to ask about this would be in the GroovyMAME subforum. Substring and doozer on there would know much more :)
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