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Medium res monitor w/ MAME?
Spyridon:
I have a cab with a 25" medium resolution monitor in it. I'd like to conver this to a mame cab. Can I utilize the medium res monitor and if so, what do I need to make it work with a computer?
gatordad:
What kind of monitor do you have?
If you don't know post a picture of the chassis, and someone will prob recognize it.
Jack Burton:
It will work.
You will need an arcadevga or a graphics card that supports 25khz along with Soft15khz.
Paladin:
I didn't think the ArcadeVGA would do medium res. I see on the website that it Now supports 25Khz modes as well, on multi-frequency monitors such as the WG D9200. I don't quite get exactly what that means.
I've bought a Universal Video Converter to hook my PC up to my medium res monitor, but I haven't had a chance to do it yet. Happ sells the converter (I bought mine used). It accepts a PC VGA cable as input and lets you set a jumper for standard res or medium res output. My monitor is a 38" showcase cab, and it isn't multi-frequency so I thought that was the only way I could use the monitor.
It would be nice if Andy would jump in and further explain the medium res capabilities of the ArcadeVGA.
AndyWarne:
Coincidentally another thread came up about this today. But..
The ArcadeVGA supports two 25Khz resolutions which are 448 X 384 and 512 X 384.
To enable these, the VGA port needs to be used and the tri-sync utility run after installation.
There are no visible boot screens and of course no native resolutions possible for standard-res games (ie the majority). Windows will need to be run at 512 X 384 and in effect everything will need to be run at this resolution with stretch enabled. Its not an ideal situation. Medium res monitors are not really ideal for Mame unless you particularly only want to play medium-res games.
Andy
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