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ArcadeVGA Help please?
« on: July 04, 2007, 12:24:36 pm »
Okay, my dad has a cocktail machine that a year or 2 ago I threw XP with an Arcade VGA into with Mamewah as the front end.  There seemed to be just too many things that could go wrong with this configuration, so I tore into it last night.  I wanted to go with Mala.

As anyone knows who's tried to work in a 240x368 environment, configuring things gets frustrating fast.  Since I have the ArcadeVGA2 in his machine, I brought over a regular monitor and hooked it up at the same time.  It worked great and I got mala configured etc.  Everything looked great on the PC monitor.  so I set the resolution back to 240x368 and shut down the machine.  Brought it back up with just the arcade monitor plugged in and got the happy Dos screens, then it went to garbled mess screen in windows.

It auto launches Mala, and it's still a mess.  if I start a game, the game looks great.  the front end will not display. 

anyone have any idea how I can get this thing kicking out to the arcade monitor at the right frequency in windows?  Andy has TONS of documentation on his site, but I don't see anything about forcing the frequency.  ???

anyone?

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Re: ArcadeVGA Help please?
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2007, 11:38:57 am »
This may not be any help at all.  But on one of my machines, I could never get the AVGA to work the way its supposed to.  I would get no output in Windows. 

So I did something similar to what you did.  I put another video card in the computer (my AVGA was an older model) and used the 2nd card on a regular VGA monitor to trouble shoot.  As long as the second monitor was working, the AVGA/arcade monitor worked.  When I took the 2nd card out, the AVGA stopped working.

Long story short, I left the 2nd video card in the computer.   :dunno :dunno :dunno

Hope that helps,
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Re: ArcadeVGA Help please?
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2007, 09:51:25 am »
do you have mala nad windows resolution set right to match the card you monitor will not display 3 different resultions without adjusting the V and H hold to match that res you have it for.