What to use in a Ms Pacman???

[daywane]

I am off on a road trip for a Mspac. 500 miles. 
Maybe not smart but I want a Ms Pacman bad, tired of looking.
well anyway..... I was thinking of a real arcade monitor, but now I am reading you need to use advanced Mame ( I don't wanna  )
I want what ever I use to be vertical.
My cab has no back door yet. If I have to I can make the door fit to the monitor.
Do they make a arcade monitor that plugs into the VGA port on my PC?
I know of the arcade video card but I would have to find a new motherboard. My Ms pac PC I have built has no agp slots
I have a 17" monitor I am not using. but I think it would be a bit small in the glass

[Ken Layton]

Nobody makes an arcade CGA monitor that plugs into a VGA signal. Pac and Ms pac are CGA resolution (as are the vast majority of arcade games).

[SirPeale]

You don't need AdvMame to use an arcade monitor. 

If all you're going to play is Ms. Pac-Man, you can get away with a real POS computer.  But you have to make sure you get a video chipset that will do 15KHz.  Most ATI will do, I have a 486 with built in video (Cirrus Logic) that does it perfectly.

Was that 500 miles one way?  God, I hope not.  Pac cabinets are one of the most common, likely there's one in your area, somewhere.

[daywane]

do I have to use a cga for mame ?
Maybe I should have stated it was going to be a mame cab.
klov
Monitor:

Orientation: Vertical
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color
19-inch Electrohome G07

 

[daywane]

You don't need AdvMame to use an arcade monitor.

[SirPeale]

what do you mean by pos PC
(Point Of Sale??)

Um...no.  Piece of ****.  Running VAntAGE you can run Ms Pac-Man just fine on a higher end 486.

I do have 3 pent 2 PC's
did you mean dos.
I have 98 on one the other 2 have 95 on them.
format and just install dos or boot in dos will do?
Ms Pac only would be great for my wife. (me I would like a few others but I can do that on the super pac.)
also this Ms Pac the artwork is still there. i want to try my hand at hand painting over the art work.

Why do you want to paint over the artwork if it's still there?  Unless it's bad, and you want to make it look like new, of course.

You *can* use a VGA monitor, but it'll look much better on an arcade monitor.  It's not as hard as all that.  You quoted a lot of details that *technically* matter, but are pretty darn easy to set up.  Does this cab come with a CGA monitor?  Let us know what kind, and we can walk you thru setting it up.  It's a piece of cake.  Although you're going to likely need a couple more pieces of equipment, in the form of a video amp.  If you need one, let me know.  I need to order one from Ultimarc, two wouldn't be out of order to get the shipping lower.

[daywane]

nope i have no monitor yet. That is what i am shoping around for.
well that is not true I do have 2 nintedo monitors but they are in use right now
in a nintendo Vs. I have not mamed yet. kinda waiting for it to die before I mame it.
the Ms Pac is a empty shell. art work is faded.
remember the 15 Ms pac cabs on ebay. The winner of the auction is selling me one. and a Super pac.
claening up the arcade room now to make room for them.
so help me if the wife or kids start storing stuff in there again I will blow a gasket.

[daywane]

what do you mean by pos PC
(Point Of Sale??)

Um...no.