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beerbarrel:
BTW...
here is the machine...I bought it on Ebay. It looked like a good donor.
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Flake:
Why do you say vertical games look like ass on a horizontal monitor? I'm using a 27" horizontal TV monitor and find they look OK and are very playable. I guess I never could understand the need for vertical monitors but I havent seen the two side by side to know for sure. Is the difference really all that dramatic or is this simply a "purist" point of view?
pinballwizard79:
beerbarrel, since you are new to the hobby I have some advice.
Before you put money into the monitor make sure its bright, clear, crisp & free of burn in. If it has any issues you may want to consider replacing it with something else.
FYI: The larger your monitor the better vertical games will look, you can always play my favorite game "Pythagorean theorem" to determine the area of a vert screen vs the effective area of a vert game on a horizontal screen. You may drive yourself crazy doing that however :banghead: & thats not really the formula to use anyway, I was trying to be funny....its actually easier to figure out than that.
IMHO dont worry about the "purist" aspect either, its called emulation for a reason, because...its not even the .....um I better be quiet....just use whatever you want be it a TV, LCD or PC tube....its all good :cheers:
Timstuff:
My TV is only 20", and that's not going to stop me from playing vertical games on it even though it's horizontally oriented. Some people would simply rather not play vertical games at all than play them on a horizontal screen, but I am not that picky. The way I see it, if I really want to play vertical games that bad, I can build a special cab for them in the future. But the vast majority of games I want to play are horizontal, so I think I can stomach Donkey Kong and Pac-man looking smaller.
beerbarrel:
Thanks for the follow ups guys. Thanks for the advice pinball. I look the monitors over good while I have them out. Hopefully, they will work ok.
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