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my 5 year saga to get my arcade machine working! help!
BilldaCat:
--- Quote from: BobA on October 01, 2009, 10:30:18 pm ---If it was a working Mame arcade setup you should have a PC in there somewhere. I think you have to provide more pictures and it maybe easier just to strip it down and rewire a clean setup. The jamma connector with will have alot of wires going to nowhere if it is not being used. You did not say what type of monitor you have but going by the little bit of the back I would guess an arcade monitor so you are probably connecting to a PC which supports 15 mhz video via soft 15 or the such. Just guessing but starting from scratch will give you a better system they sorting thru alot of wires that are not needed.
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Sorry, it is indeed an arcade monitor. The PC is not in there at the moment (somehow, I've misplaced it, so I was using my regular PC to test to see if I could get a video connection.. the old PC had ArcadeOS on it). If my PC doesn't have MAME or ArcadeOS or what have you on it, I should at least still get a signal when I plug in, right?
Starting from scratch is fine.. I mean, I've already ripped out a lot of wires and rewired the buttons, so I'm part of the way there.. I just don't get how to hook up the arcade monitor to the PC (or why the existing connection isn't working).
I'll get some more pictures of the monitor tonight.. actually, I'll take a quick video and kind of explain things, that'll probably come out better.
Thanks for the help so far!
BobA:
Arcade OS is an old mame front end that only worked with certain video setups when an arcade monitor was used. If you do not have the right video card and cable and software setup you may not get a signal on your monitor. There is nothing to provide your monitor with a signal. It might glow or show some life but if the brightness is not up it might just look dead.
Here is a link to the monitor setup info for arcadeOS.
PC2jamma Monitor Link
BilldaCat:
--- Quote from: BobA on October 02, 2009, 09:22:04 am ---Arcade OS is an old mame front end that only worked with certain video setups when an arcade monitor was used. If you do not have the right video card and cable and software setup you may not get a signal on your monitor. There is nothing to provide your monitor with a signal. It might glow or show some life but if the brightness is not up it might just look dead.
Here is a link to the monitor setup info for arcadeOS.
PC2jamma Monitor Link
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Ok.. thanks for being patient with me and the info. Am I best off putting ArcadeOS on a PC, or is there something newer that people are using now that would work for my current setup?
BobA:
ArcadeOS was a great setup for older DOS based PCs and worked with really slow/old computers. Now there is no end of choices for frontends to run the latest Mame versions. See the wikki for info on frontends.
FrizzleFried:
--- Quote from: BobA on October 02, 2009, 09:22:04 am ---Arcade OS is an old mame front end that only worked with certain video setups when an arcade monitor was used. If you do not have the right video card and cable and software setup you may not get a signal on your monitor. There is nothing to provide your monitor with a signal. It might glow or show some life but if the brightness is not up it might just look dead.
Here is a link to the monitor setup info for arcadeOS.
PC2jamma Monitor Link
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He should get at minimum the BIOS screen/boot screen before going in to windows...even if it's doubled or even out of sync... something.
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