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Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: muell67 on December 28, 2004, 08:48:50 pm

Title: noob question about using a arcade monitor
Post by: muell67 on December 28, 2004, 08:48:50 pm

Ok ive found a game im thinking about buying to mame. www.klov.com says it has a standard resolution monitor. I looked at some other games and this seems to be the most common. I know I will need to buy a arcadevga card and a cable to hook the monitor up to my computer. My question is will this monitor be able to display windows xp 640x680 or do I have to use a different operating system. If so wich one will 95 or 2000 work or do I have to go dos. I plan to use a frontend like mamewah will this work ok? Could I set the computer up with a different monitor and then have it start mamewah before windows fully loads? As you can tell I dont know much about this so please help.

Sorry if I should have posted this in another forum It just didnt seem like it should go in monitor/ video. If im wrong Im sure it will be moved.

Title: Re: noob question about using a arcade monitor
Post by: paigeoliver on December 28, 2004, 10:09:41 pm

Arcadevga allows you to run 640x480 on a standard res monitor. If it is one of the two cabs I have for sale, then I have even tested those monitors with arcadevga.

Title: Re: noob question about using a arcade monitor
Post by: muell67 on December 28, 2004, 10:46:43 pm

I guess I should have just asked you.
So what is the big deal with the wells gardner & betson imperial monitors everyone is talking about besides already having a cable? I thought It was there ability to display windows.

Title: Re: noob question about using a arcade monitor
Post by: paigeoliver on December 28, 2004, 11:14:19 pm

Ok, Wells Gardner and Betson Imperial each have a single monitor that does more than just standard res. They each have a triple resolution monitor that does Standard Res, Medium Res, and VGA res. So they can take normal VGA (off a computer), standard res (off an original board, or a computer with arcadevga or proper software), or medium res (off anything you can get to output it).


The effective bonus to using that monitor is that it doesn't NEED an arcadevga card, and if you have one then it can still do non-interlaced 640x480. I own one of them. So if you are coming up to buy a cab from me, then you can check it out and see if that is what you want, if so then you can always buy my TMNT cab without the monitor. Also these monitors don't need an isolation transformer, which isn't particularly a big deal, since every real cabinet has one in it anyway.