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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: 19rjs99 on May 24, 2006, 10:10:57 am
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I have read that the Golden Tee Fore boards use an Nvidia Graphics card. They also run at med. resolution. The Graphics card loops back to the PCB via a VGA cable.
So this leads me to my question. Is it possible to connect a PC monitor to the VGA out directly or even split the connector to a PC monitor?
Any help on this is appreciated. Thanks.
Bob
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Contact the manufacturer's tech support dept at www.itsgames.com
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Contact the manufacturer's tech support dept at www.itsgames.com
Tried that a few weeks ago but they refuse to give any info as "The game was not meant to be used that way"
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I'm guessing the main PCB is expecting a video signal, so you probably would have to split it so that video still runs to the PCB. The only way to know is to try it.
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It might be possible, I did this with a gauntlet legends board which had a voodoo graphics card and it worked fine. I think the video signal is routed back thru the pcb just so it can go out the jamma pinout.
You also have the fact that your board is outputting a med res signal so you have to have a monitor that will support that. Or does gt fore have a dip switch setting to change to vga?
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I don't have a GT PCB yet. I have the means of aquiring one but that will eat up the disposable funds for now. I was hoping to use it on a VGA monitor or a TV with a convertor. I hear that the convertors don't work well though. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.
Bob
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It might be possible, I did this with a gauntlet legends board which had a voodoo graphics card and it worked fine. I think the video signal is routed back thru the pcb just so it can go out the jamma pinout.
You also have the fact that your board is outputting a med res signal so you have to have a monitor that will support that. Or does gt fore have a dip switch setting to change to vga?
Just noticed that GT Fore is also a Voodoo card. What kind of monitor did you use with your gauntlet? I think this might be the way to go for me. Did you use a splitter or just connect the monitor cable?
GT Fore switches between low and med. resolution.