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DaOld Man:

I cant seem to find a lot of information on here about rotating the monitor.
I tried rotating my desktop monitor and playing some games.
Galaga 88 and several others play a lot better with a vertical screen, but a lot of games I have look better on horizontal screen.
I am thinking of making a rotating monitor mount.
Perhaps use a small motor to turn it with the flip of a switch, or it would be even better if Mame or a frontend could automatically rotate it to the angle best suited for each game.
Have any of you guys tried this, it might save me loads of research and design work.

Jouster:

I know there are multiple threads on here on this topic...just search for it...not too many people have done it though.  But there are some good ideas in the threads if I remember correctly.

Jouster

Green Giant:

Someone recently made exactly what you are describing.  It had a motor and some cutoff relays so you would hit a switch and it would rotate and stop automatically.  I don't think they found a way to automatically rotate it though. 

Is there a reason you wouldn't just put a big tv in your cab?  Sure it won't rotate, but a 27" tv should play vertical games on a screen bigger than most vertically mounted computer monitors.  Then you can just cover it with a piece of smoked glass so it looks like the screen is vertically mounted.

The rotation should require an lcd.  If you have one laying around, great, otherwise you are looking at a chunk of change.

DaOld Man:

Thanks for the replies.
Maybe I should post this in the monitor section?
Anyway:


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I have a 21" crt monitor, also a 17" LCD.
On both monitors, when a game, such as Galaga88, is run with monitor horizontal, there are "bands" of unused monitor space on both sides on the game display.
But in vertical mode, the game fills the whole screen, and looks more like the original game.
I take it that a TV would display the same way?
If not, then a TV may be the way I need to go.

Stobe:

Yes, the TV will act the same way, as will any type of display with a similar aspect ratio.

-Stobe

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