ArcadeVGA card from Ultimarc

[Bloker]

It looked good on paper until I saw this line: "Powerful ATI Radeon 7000 chipset for great performance in 3D games as well as emulation."

Is the ATI Radeon 7000 a good choice for a card to run MAME?

For those that don't know, go to www.ultimarc.com and look under Arcade VGA card and then go to information.

Any, here's a repost of that info:

The Ultimate Video card for 15Khz Arcade Monitors
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Connect your 15Khz arcade cabinet monitor to your PC with NO special configuration or special driver software in either DOS or Windows.


Displays all boot, DOS and Windows screens. Displays Windows desktop in a choice of resolutions including interlaced and non-interlaced.

Allows DOS MAME or MAME32 to run almost all games at their native resolutions without hardware stretching, scan converters or other degradation.

Emulates the original game board's graphics hardware as closer than has ever been possible before.

Contains 28 built-in 15Khz video graphics modes tailored specially for emulation.

All 240-line modes have an exact 60Hz vertical refresh rate for best performance in scrolling games.

Special 300 X 256 Mode timed at 53Hz vertical for games such as Mortal Kombat .

All video modes timed at 15.7 Khz horizontal frequency to eliminate picture shifting on mode changes.

Also contains all standard VGA graphics and text modes, running at 15Khz. Text screens display the full 25 lines without interlace using a special reduced-height font.

All special modes available in Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows 98 at all colour depths.

Desktop rotation supported in Windows for vertically-mounted monitors in Windows XP and 2000.

Choice of Windows desktop resolutions including interlaced and non-interlaced modes. Can be assigned hot-keys .

Virtual-desktop mode supported in XP and 2000, so you can run a desktop of 1024 X 768 and auto-pan.

No MAME monitor configuration necessary, no need even to tell MAME you have an arcade monitor.

Run any Windows application which can use 640X480 or 800X600 on your arcade monitor including 3D games.

All modes locked with vertical and horizontal negative sync for easy connection via a direct cable.

Choice of available connection methods, Via J-PAC, Via Video Amp, or Direct Cable connect.

Powerful ATI Radeon 7000 chipset for great performance in 3D games as well as emulation.

[Minwah]

Is the ATI Radeon 7000 a good choice for a card to run MAME?

I find this a bit of an odd question...the Radeon 7000 is completely different to the ArcadeVGA.  The Radeon 7000 is probably a fairly choice for MAME, if you are using a monitor (or maybe TV).  But the ArcadeVGA is a PERFECT choice if you are using an arcade monitor - it makes it so easy to run MAME (& other emus) at native resolutions, there really isn't another card that can do this.  

[AndyWarne]

Minwah is correct. In fact I might re-word that FAQ because the fact it uses a R7000 chip is not really relevant.
It's quite an old chip now, but perfect for it's application in the ArcadeVGA and ATI have no plans to stop making it (which is good!)
I suspect the original poster has not seen the "monitor/video" forum, where this really belongs.