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Idea: customized videocard BIOS
elvis:
Desmatic, I'm looking forward to seeing this in action. Your site has helped me greatly in the past, and I'll be using msot of your setup and tools for my next linux/15KHz setup.
Silver:
yes that sounds fantastic... although I'm using XP/Radeon drivers. how is it implimented? Does it make the extra display settings available to the system? or is it command line based?
desmatic:
--- Quote from: Silver on March 10, 2005, 05:26:48 am ---yes that sounds fantastic... although I'm using XP/Radeon drivers. how is it implimented? Does it make the extra display settings available to the system? or is it command line based?
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It's command line based, written in C (although I originally wrote it in perl), so it'll run on any platform, regardless of the graphics driver you are using.
wpcmame:
--- Quote from: desmatic on March 10, 2005, 08:31:02 am ---This means that you can't use it for xmame or the official mame, as neither support integer stretch, which you will need to work around pclock mins lower than 12mHz on Arcade Monitors.
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Don't know about xmame but official mame supports integer stretch. It is called cleanstreatch.
-cleanstretch [option] / -cs [option]
Stretch the image to integer ratios only. This may leave a black border
around the image in fullscreen mode. The options are:
none disable. This will cause artifacts when using
scanlines.
auto let the blitter decide. The d3d module will select
the best option.
full always stretch to integer ratios both horizontally
and vertically.
horizontal always stretch to integer ratios horizontally.
vertical always stretch to integer ratios vertically.
The default is AUTO (-cleanstretch auto). This option requires -ddraw
or -direct3d.
Silver:
Thats interesting.... I'm currently running windows on ati's radeon drivers, and I have an interesting presentation monitor (NEC xm29+) that supposedly supports 15Khz-60Khz (or at least up to 1024x768@60Hz).
I say supposedly as I need to test that it does not really mean 15Khz,31-60Khz as another pres monitor I had di just that (it internally line-doubled 15Khz inputs to 31Khz.)
I've been told thats its true multisync over the whole range though, which in theory makes it like a D9200, I think. If so I'd like to use it (obviously!) to run all games at native resolutions and still have a nice windows display.
I'm guessing I'll need to play with powerstrip, but if anyone knows a handy way to get a radeon to fire 15/25Khz signals to test let me know.
Apologies for taking this slightly off-topic...