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Arcadiac:

moloch, Yoshi from TechTv screensavers did an awesome "NASCAR at home" 3 screen simulator made of aluminum tubing to resemble the interior of a rollcage.  Awesome work, was featured on the ScreenSavers and XPlay mid to late last year.  I just spent 1/2hr trying to find a pic of it with no luck though.  Coolest home rig I've ever seen, not at all like an arcade cockpit, much more authentic.  Of course he had techTV and around 20 G to spend!! His forum is at:
http://yoshi.us/
Maybe you can weed through it and find some pics or even better get some tech support from him or the forum!  Definitely keep us posted.
Good Luck! ARCADIAC!

oldsage:


--- Quote from: Arcadiac on January 19, 2005, 03:20:52 am ---moloch, Yoshi from TechTv screensavers did an awesome "NASCAR at home" 3 screen simulator made of aluminum tubing to resemble the interior of a rollcage.
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Samstag:

He said it was around $20,000.  I think they had TOCA 2 running on it on the show, not NASCAR.

For $20,000 I'd feel pretty cheated if it only turned left.

Xiaou2:


 Well, since this thread popped up... Id like to post an idea i had...

 In mame... there are games that in the real arcade used 2 or 3 monitors.  However... mame dosnt support that.  Squeezes them horribly into one screen.    Since nobody wants to add multimonitor support - then.. . my idea is Hardware support.
 
 Maybe Andy could make a custom video device.   It would take any input pc signal  (could also be consol versions),  and would have 3 output svga ports, 3 rgb ports, and 3 svideo ports.  (or use ports with multiple pins... a Dip switch to tell what type of signal to output at the pins, and custom cables to hook into the pins to connect the desired device) 

 The device would take the image, divide it into 2 or 3 screens depending on dip or cycled switch... and boom, you have multiple monitor support wth ANY game!  : )

 It could have even more advanced features... like scrolling of the cut
lined so that you could choose where the splits took place.   Maybe even individual scrolling adjustments - for seamless display (IE: hide
part of display as if it were under the monitors front face boarder)
Blur effect - near edges, creates a preferial view feel...

 Linkable - to support more monitors?

  Anyway,  Id pay for this in a heartbeat.  Not just for mame, but for pc games, and other fun stuff it could do.   Monitors are cheap now, and many of us have several old ones hanging arround to use.   BUt also,  even if it wasnt to cheap... I think people would still drop the cash for this as its just too cool to not have : )

 Anyone else like this idea?  Would you buy one?
 Anyone have any desire/skill to make this?
   

Reaper:


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And he throws down the guantlet!

Reaper, are those 17" monitors? That looks pretty good. Whats the specs on your set-up?

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Yup, 3 Dell 17" flat screen crt's, the centre has been changed for a Mitsubishi (Dell badged) 21" crt now & the laft will be changed as soon as I can get another of the 21's home :) (dont really need another for the right screen as it is only really a wing mirror to see :) )

The specs of the rig are an abit NF7s with an xp processor running at about 2 gig (I forget the actual speed or xp number) with 512 of pc3200 ram & a Matrox Parhelia for gfx (all 3 monitors run from the one card).

Sadly I dont have the space to have it all set-up to use at the moment (untill I re-organise my room) & the building process is on hold while I do the arcade cabinet & sort out more funds - I had got as far as building the base with the seat, pedals (only 2 at present but I am working on having 3 & a shifter) & speakers intergrated (although the speakers only got as far as the test set-up - held on with electrical tape! :-[ )

I have to say that it is great for more immersion when playing with multiple monitors!

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