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Grasshopper:

A pity your LCD screen is so small. If it were full size, and better still if you had two of them, I can think of several applications for a two monitor setup.

First of all there were a handfull of classic arcade games that required more than one monitor. For instance there was a version of Darius that required 3 monitors, I actually saw one in an arcade years ago. I'm not sure whether MAME currently supports a three monitor setup though.

Or what about head to head driving games.

Or a cocktail table with two LCD monitors at 45 degree angles (one per player) so that the players can view their respective monitors at a comfortable angle (a bit hard to explain without drawing a diagram).


RacerX:


--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on July 25, 2004, 04:49:55 pm ---Yeah I have a similar rig, that's where I got the idea. :)  I've been aiming to do this for ages, but I didn't have the money or time.  I'm glad I finally can.  I really appreciate your support.  I'll need beta testers for some of this stuff, would you be interested? (Don't know how your setup is, but if you have an extra monitor.....)

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I could probably beta test.  The way I currently have it set up is with a splitter, but my video card does have two output jacks on it so I can have my Windows desktop span both monitors.  Is that the kind of setup it would take to do some testing?  Or would I need to use the video card for one monitor and my motherboard's onboard video for the other?

nipsmg:


--- Quote from: Grasshopper on July 25, 2004, 06:12:18 pm ---A pity your LCD screen is so small. If it were full size, and better still if you had two of them, I can think of several applications for a two monitor setup.

First of all there were a handfull of classic arcade games that required more than one monitor. For instance there was a version of Darius that required 3 monitors, I actually saw one in an arcade years ago. I'm not sure whether MAME currently supports a three monitor setup though.

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Wasn't there an Xmen game that was 2 or 3 monitors.

TalkingOctopus:


--- Quote from: nipsmg on July 25, 2004, 06:27:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: Grasshopper on July 25, 2004, 06:12:18 pm ---A pity your LCD screen is so small. If it were full size, and better still if you had two of them, I can think of several applications for a two monitor setup.

First of all there were a handfull of classic arcade games that required more than one monitor. For instance there was a version of Darius that required 3 monitors, I actually saw one in an arcade years ago. I'm not sure whether MAME currently supports a three monitor setup though.

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Wasn't there an Xmen game that was 2 or 3 monitors.

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There was a 2 monitor 6 player x-men game.  I don't think it works properly in MAME.

Howard_Casto:


--- Quote from: Grasshopper on July 25, 2004, 06:12:18 pm ---A pity your LCD screen is so small. If it were full size, and better still if you had two of them, I can think of several applications for a two monitor setup.

First of all there were a handfull of classic arcade games that required more than one monitor. For instance there was a version of Darius that required 3 monitors, I actually saw one in an arcade years ago. I'm not sure whether MAME currently supports a three monitor setup though.

Or what about head to head driving games.

Or a cocktail table with two LCD monitors at 45 degree angles (one per player) so that the players can view their respective monitors at a comfortable angle (a bit hard to explain without drawing a diagram).


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I agree.  Luckily though that's only a physical limitation.  Now that I have a working secondary montior to test I might be able to address some of these games and work on their drivers so that others can use them on full-fledged two monitor cabs.  

For the record though, at this point, mame doesn't even support a two monitor setup.  I will be attempting to change the entire display code to support monitor enumeration.  

And yeah, the xmen 6 player version doesn't work yet.  I think it might actually have something to do with the dual display.  

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