Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: koolmoecraig on June 02, 2004, 03:19:07 pm
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Hello,
I am building a mame cocktail table with a side control panel to play horizontal games. I am mostly going to be playing old school games(95%)
I was planning on using an ArcadeVGA card with a CGA monitor.
My questions are:
Will a vertical(cocktail) monitor have any trouble displaying horizontally?
Would it just be better to get a VGA arcade monitor with a normal video card?
What do you guys think would be the best monitor for my application?? I am going for authentic old school feel.
Is the difference between a CGA arcade monitor and a VGA arcade monitor REALLY that big of a difference if I am using a fast enough computer to handle the stretching?
I am new to all of this and I really appreciate your help!
Thanks!
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I have built a cocktail with a WG u3100 arcade vga monitor. The picture looked really good even though it was stretched. (Used a matrox G400) No-one ever noticed it was not the true resolution, except me of course. So I guess the answer is no it is not a "big" difference unless of course the true arcade resolution is a must have. If you are going for the authentic old school and don't need vga or svga I would definitely go with the cga. (arcadevga will do vga and svga interlaced on a cga monitor)
Also I don't believe there are Horizontal or Vertical specific monitors. I also had a third panel for Horizontal games and it was no problem.
hope this helps