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Best Moniter for vector mame / Spinner Wiring
my58vw:
High Res CRT monitors are actually not that expensive if you are playing just vector games...
ArtMAME:
I agree. Your best bet is to find a PC monitor that will fit in the cab. PC monitor will produce the best image for Tempest on MAME. You may have to decase the PC monitor, or make the cabinet a little bigger to acomodate the monitor.
Do not use a CGA monitor for the Vector games. Resolution is not high enough for crisp vector graphics.
I am using a 27" TV with component inputs in my MAME cabinet. Tempest, and other COLOR vector games look quite decent, but B&W games like Asteroids look lousy on the TV. A regular VGA monitor would be tons better.
And if you really want to get adventurous, you could just use a real vector monitor and a ZVG vector generator from Zektor:
http://www.zektor.com/zvg/index.html
This could get expensive though, very expensive.
I would recommend that you just go with a PC monitor and build the cabinet. It would be the easiest and least expensive to do. Later, much later, if you want a challenge, you could try the Zektor and a real vector monitor.
ArtMAME:
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--- Quote from: Paladin on October 11, 2006, 11:13:56 am ---PC monitor by far. An arcade monitor or TV does not have good enough resolution to reproduce the sharp crisp lines.
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Would it have to be CRT or would an LCD look just as good?
LCD is easier to find these days.
Thanks Paladin
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If you have a laptop, or access to a laptop computer, try running tempest on it and see how it looks to you.
If you like the way it looks, it would be real easy to fit a 19" LCD in a Tempest cabinet. I will probably be a pain to find a 19" CRT PC monitor that will fit in a standard Tempest cab.
Havok:
Get a good 20" LCD screen. I think that these guys that are hard core CRT users haven't seen a newer LCD screen and are basing their judgement on older LCD technology. I have a 20" Dell Ultrasharp and I love it. I would stay away from widescreen LCDs unless you are going to rotate it for vertical only games, then they are the way to go...
johnm160:
I have no problem decasing the monitor, it is just that LCD's are so much easier to find then a good 19" CRT these days.
I really can't make the case bigger I already have an original Control Panel and Marquee to go in it.
Havok
Since all this is going to play is tempest I would be installing it vertically