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| normchorus:
Howdy. Alex here. It's been a long time since I've posted here. Happy to see that the dream is still alive (and so is my MAME machine web site, www.ysib.com/zoom ... eh, eh). I recently happenstanced upon a free flatscreen lcd monitor. I've been waiting for this day for several years, because I knew that as soon as I scored a free lcd flatscreen monitor that I would build a wall-mounted mp3 jukebox to compliment my arcade machine. So I built a really cool art deco-y shell for it which looks like an old timey transistor radio face, with knobs and the keywiz and the like. But my problem is this: I don't want to cut a 17" hole in my design to fit the 17" flatscreen. I just want to utilize about 6" of screen and cut a 6" hole. On all of my previous CRT monitors, there is an option on the actual monitor to shrink the picture size inside the screen - so that the image appears in miniature in the middle of the screen, and the entire perimeter is black. On my lcd flatscreen, I can't find such an option. Is there a windows setting or program that will shrink the size of the screen? thanks a lot you guys!! By the way, I really like all the cool projects everyone is making. What a creative community! |
| GadgetGeek:
Could you just pick juke software that supports skinning and create a skin that puts everything you want within your 6" cutout? |
| normchorus:
That's a really good idea, and it's probably what I'll do if I can't figure out how to shrink the screen size. Thanks for the idea. |
| ahofle:
I answered your post in the monitors forum, but I'll mention it here too. See if your monitor has a 'no scaling' option in the on screen menu (it may be called something like 'zoom' too). Then set a lower resolution so it will only fill the middle of the LCD. |
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