New Monitor from WG

[SirPoonga]

http://www.wellsgardner.com/products/details.asp?iCat=2&iSubCat=10

[ahofle]

Awesome!  If only they'd make a 24" or 25" multisync now. 

[infiniteomega]

I have one

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=52653.0

[Hiub1]

Well post some mo' pics!   

[SirPoonga]

If I understand the website correctly this is a monitor that plugs into VGA.  It can handle standard resolution arcade games (15Hz stuff) along with an adaptor so you can hook it up to normal arcade stuff.

[rlemmon]

can you plug this diectly into your pc without needing an arcade vga card ?

[SirPoonga]

Yes, you still need something that can output at 15hz if you want true resolution.

But since it takes normal vga you can just hook it up to a computer.

[Kremmit]

I forsee some of these in my future...

[infiniteomega]

An image of the tube while it's off:


The "adapter":


Street Fighter Alpha 3 (should have adjusted the picture better):

[ppilot]

Yes, you still need something that can output at 15hz if you want true resolution.

But since it takes normal vga you can just hook it up to a computer.

Would you explain this a little better?  I'm interested, but pretty clueless about this sort of thing.

[SirPoonga]

Well, I assume since it has a vga connection it is meant to just hook up to a computer.  So you wouldn;t need an arcadevga.

However, if, for some reason, you wanted to run a game in mame at it's native 15Hz vertical frequency you need a video card that can output that.  This monitor can handle that as an input so oyu need something that can output it.

The reason, I think, WG released this VGA based games iare getting common in the arcade.  This monitor will allonw an operator to put either a game that uses standard resolution or VGA into a cabinet. 

[Silver]

... at it's native 15Hz vertical frequency ...

vertical -> Horizontal. 15Khz. (sorry not trying to be annoying)

[Frosty]

Well, I assume since it has a vga connection it is meant to just hook up to a computer.  So you wouldn;t need an arcadevga.

However, if, for some reason, you wanted to run a game in mame at it's native 15Hz vertical frequency you need a video card that can output that.  This monitor can handle that as an input so oyu need something that can output it.

The reason, I think, WG released this VGA based games iare getting common in the arcade.  This monitor will allonw an operator to put either a game that uses standard resolution or VGA into a cabinet. 

That's correct...

ppilot, think of it this way:  the issue isn't so much the connection (you can easily hack a VGA cable to connect to an arcade monitor at one end and your PC in another), because this monitor comes with a standard 15-pin D-sub connectior.  The main problem is what video signal your PC needs to output to the monitor.

You can find lots of information here about resolutions and what games/monitors, etc. ran at what frequency.  But I'd estimate that 85% of games playable in MAME ran at standard (CGA) resolution.  Because most current video cards for a PC will not output CGA (without some work involved) in order to play many games at their 'naitve' resolution (336 pixels horizontal and 240 lines vertical), you need a card that can output that type of signal.  This is where ArcadeVGA, AdvanceMAME or PowerStrip comes in.

Funny story about this monitor:  it's also meant to be a drop-in replacement for many new slot machines.  Slots have become big business over the past decade and almost all of the newer slot machines are video slots.  This provides users with one monitor for CGA/EGA/VGA resolutions...

[Ken Layton]

I hate to rain on everyone's parade, but I think before you buy ANY Wells-Gardner DIGITAL monitor you should read the "Open Letter to Wells Gardner" on the video game forum at www.vendoramusements.com