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Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: mikesapunk on November 25, 2002, 05:22:57 pm

Title: Should I buy a standard or medium res monitor?
Post by: mikesapunk on November 25, 2002, 05:22:57 pm

Yo.

I want to buy a new 25" monitor to put in my cab.
Wells-Gardner's website sells them online. They divide the their monitors up by standard resolution (CGA) and medium resolution (EGA). The medium res monitors are quite a bit more expensive than the standard res ones. They also have VGA/SVGA res monitors and Digital XGA res monitors. I don't want either of those because I'm not running windows and I want it to look real (no faking scan lines)

My question is which should I buy? I'm running a DOS-only cabinet (ArcadeOS/AdvanceMAME). If I get a medium-res monitor can it also play games designed for a standard-res one? And which games REQUIRE a medium-res monitor?

Check-out http://www.wellsgardner.com/wellsgardner31/catalog.cfm?dest=dir&linkid=4&linkon=section (http://www.wellsgardner.com/wellsgardner31/catalog.cfm?dest=dir&linkid=4&linkon=section) for more info.

Thanks!
-Mike

Title: Re:Should I buy a standard or medium res monitor?
Post by: Thenasty on November 25, 2002, 05:37:01 pm

I was talking to a rep in Wells-Gardner about the D9200 Monitor.  This monitor supports Low/Med res and also VGA.
There is a switch in the back to choose if you want low/med or VGA and the low/med res is AUTOMATIC switching so that means if a game like PACMAN is started, it will be 15.75 mode and if a game NARC is started, it will Automitcally switched to MED-res.  But in won't switch Automatic for VGA cause this is a manual switch to choose which on e you want. I am thinking about gettig one myself but if you do get one before me, LMK how it works out specailly for the LOW/Med res setuyp. I don't need the VGA part.

Title: Re:Should I buy a standard or medium res monitor?
Post by: mikesapunk on November 25, 2002, 05:44:02 pm

Thats cool but on the WG website it appears that the only sizes the D9200 comes-in is 27" and 33". My cabinet used to be an Ikari Warriors cabinet and I think it will barely hold a 25" but definately not a 27".

They advertise a K7500 monitor. That one appears similar to the D9200 but is 25" instead of 27". Does anyone know anything about this monitor?

thanks,
-Mike

Title: Re:Should I buy a standard or medium res monitor?
Post by: SNAAAKE on November 25, 2002, 05:44:05 pm

i would say get standard cga.If you get 92000 then i dont think you gonna get the so called "real arcade looks" even it goes down to 15khz.That monitor has scanline(vertical) and they are very tiny.However if you consider running windows then you should because the picture quility is amezing.