Ok, I think I order two. Shipping will be to Poland.
ok thanks. You may have contacted directly Bandicoot as I do not see any message from you.
Now, some questions:
I understand that I still need groovymame, VMMaker and custom resolutions added. Only crt emudriver is skipped and test mode, right ?
Yes, but depending on your expectations you might find it cumbersome to setup for now, or not giving you the "pixel perfect" you were looking for as only the resolutions you will store in the board will be available to GroovyMAME (or whatever else emulator you use). In this case you may have to stay with crt emudriver.
To explain maybe more in details what flybynight does with VMMaker and the VideoAmp:
- first you basically generate with VMMaker a list of say 20x or 30x modelines that covers 99% of what MAME needs, or your other emulators expect (super-resolution and rounding to multiples of 4 vertical lines and integer refresh rates will allow to reduce massively the number of needed modelines).
- then you import this list of modelines to the internal memory of the VideoAmp in what is called an EDID (a display identification data that makes your computer to generate the "right" video signals for your monitor). This is done with a few click using the companion software (sorry, Windows only..).
- next you either plug the VGA between your computer and your VideoAmp or perform a software restart of the graphics driver of your computer to force your operating system to automatically detect those resolutions/modelines.
- finally when you launch a game in GroovyMAME, it will try to find the closest resolution and frequency for your game and will dynamically switch the current videomode to the one that is the closest to the game's videomode. This is transparent and done by your operating system indenpendantly of your GPU brand, meaning you can use Intel or NVidia gpu as well as AMD.
You can see it has an evolved Soft15kHz dongle that would be easy to configure and that can store many detailled resolutions. Or a "hardware-based" equivalent to Custom Resolution Utility if you know the tool from ToastyX.
Worth to note that the first goal of the VideoAmp was to be an adapter board that takes VGA video signal as an input, and output a combined sync with amplified output video to ScartRGB or RGBS (arcade monitor), which is closer to a UMSA++.
The software that runs on the board perform hsync measurement and can disable the output in case the sync is out of range. This is mainly to protect your CRT chassis against too high frequency that would cause overheating and maybe broke your CRT electronics. The additional thing I added is the automatic detection by your PC graphics adapter and the advanced EDID emulation that the board can provide to help people quickly get a running 15kHz or 24kHz setup.
I do not want to do advertising, but we have a 1 sheet page to summarize what it does.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H0GvW21lrLlSddq1vHD5RBfbbFss4pTk/view?usp=drive_link