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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:


--- Quote from: johnm160 on October 11, 2006, 11:33:25 am ---
--- 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

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