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Which purchase is smarter! Lets duke it out!
AX:
100 bucks isnt gonna get you far. get a job LOL.
Brax:
--- Quote from: chuggy on May 02, 2003, 04:32:01 pm ---Wow! Well here's the skinny. I have a video card allready, given to me by a friend. It supports AGP. Im willing to spend about a hundred dollars on a comp. The same friend can get me a free CD drive (if i need it) so really all i need is a motherboard, processor, and a little bit of storage space right?also, the control panel i have (nes vs controll) only has 2 buttons so i'll only be playing NES, and atari games anyway. Right now im totally leaning toward the computer.
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If you're running an arcade monitor that video card is no good. You need the ArcadeVGA from www.ultimarc.com As has already been stated, you need the ArcadeVGA, a J-PAC AND the new computer.
But its STILL the better option.
chuggy:
OK,
what about this:
http://www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade_pc2arcade.html
I might be stupid, but it seems really easy to make a arcade hook up to your PC. as long as your running MAME. Am i wrong?
Cue-Ball:
I vote computer also. But $100 isn't going to cut it. Even though you don't need a whole computer, you still need the basics. Get yourself a motherboard with on-board video and sound and a 1Ghz+ proc and you're halfway there. Get 256MB of RAM (that's about all you can afford, it seems), a hard drive, and don't forget about a power supply. Screw everything down to the inside of the cabinet and you're good to go. You don't need a case, floppy, CD drive, etc. so that saves you some money right there (not to mention space and complexity).
rampy:
Just a thought I'd like to share:
People were and will continue to interface PC's with arcade monitors without the benefit of the ARCADEVGA card before it's advent..
It's a great tool, and IMHO it is THE way to go... but it's not the only way... There are plenty of cards that will work well with ArcMon TSR's and Advancemame or ArcadeOS etc etc...
(uh-oh --- i'm begining to sound like the keyboard hack proponents)
What I'm trying to say is that it's probably best to go with ArcadeVGA card but if you have or can get access to a card that works well in arcade monitor resolutions (albiet with some config heacaches) *shrug*
It's worth it to save the aggrevation/etc to get the arcadeVGA card but if you can get a voodoo3 banshee (or other old skool arcmon friendly card) for like 10 bucks --- why not?
Hey Chuggy... did you ever ascertain if you had an original nintendo monitor or some other 'generic" CGA monitor?
(and if nintendo did it have the switch to make it compatible with regular arcade boards (i.e. non nintendo)) there's a great thread in monitor forum where they talk about some of the issues with nintendo monitors and workarounds n' stuff...
*shrug*
Rampy