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Sidgoop:

Was that Vector MAME at the Houston Expo?  If so, I know the guy who did it.  I asked him about a color monitor when he was building it, and he said that he originally tried the one he had in his Tempest, and said it looked crappy.  Even   in B&W, it's a great playing machine.

FrizzleFried:

MAME isn't about emulating the LOOK of a vector monitor but rather emulating the hardware that PUSHES he vector monitor...



ahofle:


--- Quote from: brandon on December 05, 2007, 03:39:18 pm ---not to side track this thread.. BUT.. what is the closest you can get with a regular raster monitor? high resolution, anti aliasing, Flicker..none of that is close..  what about the glow effect?   Its crazy that we can have PC games running at 2048x1536 with all these crazy 3D post processing effects like HDR, depth of field etc..  but Mame doesnt even TRY to simulate the glow of a B&W vector monitor with some sort of RGB effect... or did I miss something?

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It has nothing to do with MAME, and everything to do with the type of monitor.  The shots in asteroids are just a point.  A point on a raster monitor is simply not as bright as one on an asteroids/vector monitor.


--- Quote from: Sidgoop on December 05, 2007, 03:51:20 pm ---Was that Vector MAME at the Houston Expo?  If so, I know the guy who did it.  I asked him about a color monitor when he was building it, and he said that he originally tried the one he had in his Tempest, and said it looked crappy.  Even   in B&W, it's a great playing machine.

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Yep that's the one.  He was a really nice guy and was happy to show everything about the cabinet.

brandon:

I know it has nothing to do with Mame.. but Mame has RGB effects for scanlines and such.. why not a sort of bloom effect for vector games?   maybe a virtual electron gun and some virtual phosphorus :P

brandon:

This is something quick and dirty in Paint Shop.. but you get the idea.. sure, its not a vector monitor.. but it would be nice to have an option for an effect like this.. IMO at least

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