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Medium res monitor w/ MAME?
AndyWarne:
I suspect the reviewer of the converter has not seen an ArcadeVGA card running at native resolutions to an arcade monitor as there is no comparison quality-wise when using a standard-res monitor.
But in the case of the medium-res monitor, the converter might offer more flexibility. It would be doing the conversion in the converter as opposed to in Mame. Mame might do the job better though of rescaling the image from the game resolution to 512 X 384 then the converter is able to do when scaling from VGA to 512 X 384 (or whatever resolution it outputs for 25Khz). Mame is able to use all the features which the video card and drivers offer. The converter might be more limited.
It would be interesting to do a side-by-side comparison.
Andy
Ummon:
I suggest selling the monitor. You won't likely get enough to cover a multisync, but if you're that bad off, I'd suggest looking on Cl, etc, for a TV. In which case, you'll probly have money left over.