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Wade:

--- Quote from: Bitnerd on March 24, 2004, 02:52:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: Wade on March 11, 2004, 01:26:19 pm ---You should look into the different 3/1, 6/1, and 8/1 boards.  Some of them are very slick, Jamma interface, menu, probably hide the boot screens, VGA & CGA output. I've seen them for $250-450.  Much more elegant solution than a PC board with a DOM.

Wade



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Where can you find these multi game jamma boards at?  Sounds like the way I want to go.


Bitnerd.


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Do a search on ebay and r.g.v.a.c and r.g.v.a.m newsgroups and you should turn up a few of them.  Try searching for 3-in-1, 6-in-1, 8-in-1, emu-jamma, multi-jamma, things like that.  If you have no luck I can probably dig up at least a couple of people who sell them.

Wade

Tux:
A quick boot and hiding the underlying OS is a high priority on my arcade machine. I've been looking at LinuxBios which sounds perfect for the job. Basically it replaces your computer BIOS stripping out all the legacy crap boasting ultra fast boot times (I believe the record is 4 seconds!) I'm running Linux anyway and after ditching the mainstream distributions and compiling my own system based on 'Linux  from scratch' I achieved a boot to GUI in about 15 seconds. If I able to get LinuxBios working and it does what it says I'll be near to a full boot before my TV shows a picture.

I understand the vast majority here will not be running Linux but it's my understanding it can boot Windows too.

Anyone else have any experience with LinuxBios?

Chris:
For a simple, 2-game setup, DOS will load very quickly.  If you use the DOS from Win98 (format /S and copy over some of the command line utilities and dump the rest of Windows), you will get the Win98 boot logo to cover the loading of AUTOEXEC.BAT, and that logo can be easily replaced.  DOS boots incredibly fast on modern machines.  As for the BIOS screen: well, my monitor doesn't warm up fast enough to see that screen anyway.

--Chris

android:
Has everyone forgotten Andy Warne's I-PAC? If you are building an arcade replica, then you need to use an arcade monitor. And if that's the case, then a nice bonus of Andy's card is that it won't allow any output to the monitor until the right frequency is output, which is done either by ArcadeOS or the game itself. This will hide any OS/BIOS boot screens.

-- Android

PacManFan:

--- Quote from: android on March 26, 2004, 03:49:09 pm ---Has everyone forgotten Andy Warne's I-PAC? If you are building an arcade replica, then you need to use an arcade monitor. And if that's the case, then a nice bonus of Andy's card is that it won't allow any output to the monitor until the right frequency is output, which is done either by ArcadeOS or the game itself. This will hide any OS/BIOS boot screens.

-- Android

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I think you mean the ArcadeVGA card. The IPAC is a keyboard emualtor/interface board for controls. I don't have an ArcadeVGA offhand, but I recall reading that it will display the bios screen.

ArcadeOS is different, that's a FE that will run in DOS, and use your plain vanilla video card to generate Arcade frequencies (15khz).

-PMF

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