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Title: LCD's as the Marquee ?
Post by: ojstimpy on February 18, 2010, 02:03:09 pm

May have posted this in the wrong forum before, sorry. Has anyone ever attempted making a marquee with Laptop LCD's? I've been researching applying two LCDs together to make a marquee in my arcade machine. I've noticed that it may be quite expensive as a chip set (200$ up) would be required (power and controller) for each Laptop LCD to be used as a regular monitor. Then comes the fact that a front end would also need programming to display the game marquees on the LCDs. Just wondering if anyone has attempted this yet and if they can provide any additional info.

Title: Re: LCD's as the Marquee ?
Post by: TOK on February 18, 2010, 02:34:20 pm

Yes, its been done. Randy, the groovygamegear.com guy did it a while ago. You might have to dig around for it, was done a while back.

Title: Re: LCD's as the Marquee ?
Post by: TOK on February 18, 2010, 02:38:58 pm

In a fit of superhuman motivation, I typed LCD Marquee into the search box and found it for ya.  :lol
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=70840.0 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=70840.0)