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my first bartop attempts were massiv woody style cabs. one is based on bishops pacman ideas with a 14 " multisync inside , the other is housing a 17 " eizo pc monitor . both got a woodoil finish . dont wonna hijack ur thread , just give some inspirations .

you may need to re-install windows,
iv'e had a similar problem before with an arcade vga,
The driver disc i got was damaged and when i tried to install
with a downloaded driver it just wouldnt work,
it may be because there so many versions of the card,
but now i mainly use dos.

I have 2 arcade vga's one is a ati 9000 based, ( i had problems with driver in windows but worked fine under dos)
the other is a newer 9200 based which always worked fine in windows,
give andy at ultimarc an email, he's a good bloke,im sure he'll help you out if he can.

Congrats Flake...that's quite an addition to the family, awesome to hear.

Congrats on the baby too 

Because of course if you were an alien, that would be the most high tech stuff you could show a man

Lol exactly...I love Sagan's take on alien abduction which goes along the same lines. He basically stated that the type of "human biological" experiments being carried out on the "abductees" would be the technological equivalent of humans resorting back to medieval medicinal beliefs like "the theory of humours".

He stated he would be much more likely to believe the abduction tales had any of them actually brought something back with them of alien origin.

But, common sense tells you that if aliens made it this far through the vastness of space they would have the technology to not only elude us but would have knowledge well beyond what we can even imagine through Science Fiction...a bit beyond MASH hospital abduction experiments lol.

I am determine to finish my cabinet again or I will toss the cabinet.  I just pulled my double dragon cabinet out of the garage, after 4 yrs.   It worked at one time but the montior and computer went out years ago.  I have the 2 Hagstorms (I toss my other cabinet last year for a case of beer.)

I think I will buy a 19 inch LCD and go that route for the monitor.  Any advice for encoder.   The Hagstorm back then was a pain to setup and it is old school serial port output.  What is the easier encoder to use?   I want to a plug and play situation. 

My buttons are set up already with the board ready to go.

It feels good to see the forum is the same, same old questions.   

One good thing waiting until now is everything is cheaper. 

Thanks
Paul 

Topic for discussion.

As we see the decline of the CRT arcade enthusiasts will need to turn to alternatives to achieve an authentic arcade experience.
 
We are already seeing this with many people using televisions in their cabs in one forum or another in place of an arcade monitor. 

Others take this one step further and perform a tube swap with an arcade monitor to create a device that is close to a new arcade monitor.

In Europe gamers are lucky because they have televisions that accept RGB connections over SCART.

In the US gamers quest after high quality RGB studio monitors.


So, how hard would it be to take apart an NTSC television and add RGB inputs to it?  I know that every TV uses RGB at some level, if only to feed the scanning electron guns used to create the image on the CRT. 

Can the signal to these guns be intercepted somewhere on the television chassis, and we can supply our own signal?

Here is a picture of what the screen looks like.

for lcd rotating u may go the road of a classic german tating cabinet named jumbo quadro . its based on a bicycle rim and car wiper motor . this one was build for a 25 inch crt but can be easy adapted for lcd usage . there are 2 fix rollers on the bottom and 2 adjustable on the top .  the 12 v dc motor is mounted from below.

I have a Sega Nascar Arcade with Wells Gardner 9300 series monitor.  Everything works great.  When I got it I noticed the the screen was rolling top to bottom.  After a while it stopped.  Then I noticed that the monitor was blinking on and off every so often.  Then one time it blink off and showed "No Signal" then came right back on.  I played around with it looking for loose wires.  No I have a issue with the H Size.  The screen is only about 1.5" wide and it is still rolling top to bottom.  I can't get it to adjust to the full screen.  Thhis is a 29" monitor that has the control bottons instead of the nobs you can turn.  It is a push button control.  With the screen being so skiney I can read it to see what the on screen menu is showing to adjust the H size.  Any sugestions on how to fix this?   

pin 1 = ground
pin 6 = +12v
on the jamma connector