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Buddabing:

--- Quote from: JoeB on December 07, 2004, 04:34:33 pm ---Doesn't the arcadeVGA have a 2nd video out port?
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Silver:
I'm sure there are lots of cards that can output to two monitors. The Matrox Dual-Head cards have been around for ages.

Also I've used the tv-out on my radeon as a seperate monitor - I was sending full-screen video to the tv-out and had the desktop on the vga working at the same time.

This works absolutely fine for testing/development/general use - however, as I mentioned previously, it DOES impact performance both in speed and what resolutions/refresh rate is available on each. Not perfect for a Cab IMHO.

Lilwolf:
One of the advantages of using a GBA would be sending the image before launching mame and your done.  No worry...

If your going to have a second monitor running on your PC.  I would consider going with a specialized frontend.  I considered converting my frontend to run 100% in one screen, always having a game running in the other.  Having the controls and history displaying, until you tried to change games.  But I never figured a way to get the controls to work right.... And I don't have a second monitor on my cabinet.  But thought it would be cool to plug my little car TV (that my kids fight about so we don't put it in the car anymore) in for that.  Put it up in the marquee or something).

LordDamo:
Lilwolf, what front end can do what your seggesting? Im using a Nvida geforce MX 420 64 mb vith TV out to go to my TV, and was waning to use a LCD monitor that has it own seperate card, as it has a special plug. Its a second hand one from a bank. Im just needing to know how to send the apprprate image to the spesific monitor. Im using Windows 2K. But can run anything from Win ver.1 through to XP.

Hope this helps answer my question :)

ChadTower:
Yeah, the trick here is going to be figuring out how to separately address each monitor... mame running in one, something else displaying directions/etc in the other.  I'm going to look into two video cards, one an Avga and the other something else.

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