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Author Topic: J-Pac plus Soft15 driver. Safe with arcade monitor? MALA  (Read 1790 times)

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J-Pac plus Soft15 driver. Safe with arcade monitor? MALA
« on: March 06, 2009, 10:46:46 am »
I am sticking a PC in my Ms. Pac using the J-Pac and a JAMMA adapter with MALA.

Is it cool to use a Soft15 driver for my VGA card instead of buying a new ArcadeVGA card? Trying to save some dough.

Looks like the J-Pac will protect the monitor until the driver loads and the video card is outputting 15k.

My buddy did this and it is working fine. But I just really want to triple confirm as I don't want to fry my new Wells Gardener monitor.

I read some stuff last night in the Project Arcade book that scared me but that was written before the J-Pac came out.

So, this is from the J-Pac site:

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If required, can divide a 31Khz VGA signal in half so that it will display a stable picture on a 15Khz arcade monitor. Useful for checking boot-up progress and configuration (not for application use). Automatically stops dividing the signal when it detects a correct 15Khz rate is being send by the PC

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Re: J-Pac plus Soft15 driver. Safe with arcade monitor? MALA
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2009, 08:05:14 pm »
AFter much research today I have answered this question today. So, yes, it is safe. The J-Pac protects the monitor during boot. :)