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Crowquill:
On the arcade legends cocktail I saw it had a 25" monitor IIRC. On horizontal games that were 2 player (such as Street Fighter II), it displays the screen twice on the monitor. Each half is rotated to face the player. I think this is what MAME is doing now too, but I haven't seen it in action..

Here's a crappy ASCII drawing (let's pretend Missile Command is 2p simultaneous):

---------------------------
I >           I  I          <I
I       +      I I             I
I >            I I          < I
I               I I     +      I
I >           I  I          <I
---------------------------
Player 1           Player 2

I think the term cocktail should be used lightly with that thing. It's gargantuan (and ugly). I still favor the Midway design. What can you expect..it's an Ultracade product.

jefftse:
so are you saying mame will have a function to split the screen for the horizontal  games?  How do I do that?  Where can I find a such monitor? I went to wells gardner and I didn't see anything similar!

Thenasty:

--- Quote from: jefftse on May 07, 2007, 09:12:39 am ---so are you saying mame will have a function to split the screen for the horizontal  games?  How do I do that?  Where can I find a such monitor? I went to wells gardner and I didn't see anything similar!

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here, I googled SPLITMAME for you

http://www.mameman.com/public/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=674

its not in english, but remember reading somewhere (long ago) about it in english.

jefftse:
LOL.. i guess i need to try to use the translation tool from google.. but u know how it makes sense..

juggle50:
It is working in current versions of mame without a special build. In game hit
Tab
Video Options
Cocktail

You can also do it through the properties tab in MAME32

It is awesome for us Vertical cocktail guys!!! 

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