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Boz:

My experience with the AVGA my have been very different from the others here.

First, while the AVGA card is mostly good, the drivers may give you trouble. I had to try four different computers with completely different chipsets and mobo architecture and 2 different AVGA cards before I found a solution that worked well. I communicated with Andy for over two months trying to get it to work. In the end, a computer I borrowed from work (Dell GX270) was the only machine that would load the drivers properly. Andy was pretty responsive and tried several driver code changes to help me. My suspicion is that Andy only has the resources to test on a limited set of machines to ensure his drivers work. If you are building your own computer with the latest mobo, be warned.

From a display perspective, once I got it working, I can't imagine ever looking at the games via a standard VGA card again. Of course, I'm a bit of a purist and wanted the absolute most authentic look and feel that I could afford. The scanlines and grill of the monitor make all the difference in the world.



AMDman13:

I recently bought and have been running my AVGA card for about 1 month now. I have a Betson Korteck 27" Multisync which is almost identical to your WG. Up intill last month I had been running all games at 640x480 hardware stretch enabled and was completely happy with it. I was skeptical as you are and kept thinking, "Why would I want games that are 10-20 years old look as crappy as they did back then?" Well I had some money burning in my pocket, so I figured what the heck as popular as they the AVGA is I could always sell it if I wasn't happy.
Anyway..
I can now say, "I've seen the light!" Games were programed and designed under these low res environments and when running at 640x480 -hwstretch  they looked blurred in compareson. The games are much more crisp and detailed. IMHO it is the difference between night and day. Well spent $! My suggestion is try it and spend some time configuring all of the different resolutions ie. screen size and geometrics. If you don't like it sell it. Worst thing that could happen is you might be out about 10 bucks or so.

Edit: Dang it I should have read the whole post before commiting scratch this advise and bag a multisync first. I tried my AVGA with PC monitor first. Not a huge difference. Not to me at least.

motorfish:

I've got Arcade VGA cards in both of my MAME cabs, and I'll never go back to a regular PC card again. The Arcade VGA is unmatched at producing that arcade perfect quality.

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