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Teebor:

I jsut stumbled across some software that is specially designed to rotate monitor displays through 90 and 180 degree's

I was wondering if it anyone had used it with MAME for those games that are run on rotated monitors.

When this package rotates the screen it completely fills the screen to the max res the monitor can handle so you get full use of the screen just at a different angle :D , that is instead of using the method I have seen that still leaves borders at the edge of the screen
Minwah:

--- Quote from: Teebor on March 13, 2006, 11:24:46 am ---I was wondering if it anyone had used it with MAME for those games that are run on rotated monitors.

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There is usually no point as MAME has built-in rotation.  Also, software rotation has a performance hit.

That said, for people without hardware rotation it can be handy (for example to run my FE vertically, since it doesn't have native rotation).
NoOne=NBA=:
I haven't tried the new "software-only" version of it, but I've used the older version with a Portrait monitor.
Most of the vertical games are older anyway, so I didn't see a noticable hit on performance while using it.
If you had something that needed the extra horsepower, I could see the software conversion causing issues though.

MAME will stretch to fit as well, if you tell it to.
patrickl:
I tried an older version a few years ago (it came with my monitor). I found it pretty slow. I now use the built-in rotation option of my video card drivers. Works quite well. Can be switched back and forth with a shortkey.

It's more for rotation the front end or Windows than the game itself. It doesn't work for modern games, but in Mame I haven't had a problem to leave it on.
Tiger-Heli:
I've heard it mentioned before.

Pivot Pro looks like it is $39.99 with a 30-day trial (at least if you use it honestly).

I have tried http://www.entechtaiwan.net/util/irotate.shtm which is free and will allow you to rotate the screen using hotkeys or commandlines calls from batch files (if your graphics drivers support it - most newer Nvidia and ATI cards).  I would try it first and then try PP if iRotate won't do all you want.

And as others have said, not really needed for MAME, but useful for Windows and frontends.
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