monitor/card combination

[jcoleman]

Just picked up a 26" Nanao monitor from Birdtales this weekend (thanks, Bryan!) and was wondering what people are using to drive arcade monitors...I have a TNT2 laying around as well as a few machines with Rage 128 Pro on the mobo.  I've also given some thought to ordering a Trident Blade T64.  Are the Tridents mainly only useful with the D9200?  I'm looking for a PCI card, but have the ability to use an AGP if need be.

I haven't fully determined what software I'm going to use yet.  I expect to mate the software to the hardware setup...so I'm not limited in that regard.

Apologies if this has been covered in another thread.

Thanks

John

[rampy]

Just picked up a 26" Nanao monitor from Birdtales this weekend (thanks, Bryan!) and was wondering what people are using to drive arcade monitors...I have a TNT2 laying around as well as a few machines with Rage 128 Pro on the mobo.  I've also given some thought to ordering a Trident Blade T64.  Are the Tridents mainly only useful with the D9200?  I'm looking for a PCI card, but have the ability to use an AGP if need be.

I haven't fully determined what software I'm going to use yet.  I expect to mate the software to the hardware setup...so I'm not limited in that regard.

Apologies if this has been covered in another thread.

Thanks

John

I assume that's just a standard resolution 15khz arcade monitor, right?

well... I'd suggest advancemame, and possibly arcadeos in DOS.

Actually I'd suggest springing for ultimarcs ArcadeVGA card if you can get that AGP slot open...

I'd check out the following sites:

Purple Mame
PC2JAMMA page
monarc plus page

If that's a medium or high res/VGA monitor... er... carry on without my links =P

FWIW the Trident T64 is supposed to be pretty handy at getting down to 15khz as well as some of the ATI cards... I had mixed luck with a voodoo3 myself...

rampy

[Shieldwolf]

I'm going to buy the wells gardner 9200 27 inch and I was trying to decide between ultimarc's card the 7500 ati wonder card and the  trident card. Any suggestions. I'll be running windows based emulators?

[rampy]

I'm going to buy the wells gardner 9200 27 inch and I was trying to decide between ultimarc's card the 7500 ati wonder card and the  trident card. Any suggestions. I'll be running windows based emulators?

Well the 9200 does VGA via vga port just fine so you don't *need* andy's card per say...  I wouldn't bother with the trident card in your case.

have you checked out this thread?(not sure if there's a conclusion there but more links and info/discussion)

You'll probably be fine with the stock 7500, BUT what the AVGA affords you I believe is the ability to run both native modes at 15khz with your monitor very well and 30khz modes (although I believe you need a specific utility for the 9200 as the card wants to output windows at 15khz and you need to tell it somehow to do the higher res'es at 30 because you monitor can handle it... )

*shrug* Prior to Andy's card existing... I imagine most people just ran their 9200's always as a VGA monitor/refresh rates... and were perfectly content, I guess..

It's a nice monitor regardless!  But that thread should have more useful info as I don't have one of those monitors or enough info besides what I posted above.

YMMV
Rampy

[AlanS17]

If you need a solid card that handles halfway decent 3D and still is backwards compatible I suggest the Matrox G400. It's what I've used for a stnadard resolution monitor, and I'm sure it could handle a Med Res monitor too.

Just so happens I'll be upgrading my video card since I'm using a VGA monitor. That's means I'll ahve one coming available. I would probably be more interested in trading for arcade parts rather than selling, though (if you're interested).

[jcoleman]

Alan,

What kind of parts are you looking for?  I left you an IM but I don't know if you check those...

John

[bigmoe]

I'm going to buy the wells gardner 9200 27 inch and I was trying to decide between ultimarc's card the 7500 ati wonder card and the  trident card. Any suggestions. I'll be running windows based emulators?

I've been (trying to) follow the D9200 threads for a while.  My admitedly limited understanding is that:

The ati wonder card will give you the most perfect (MAME) emulation, BUT you have to use it with advanceMame or the like (which reprograms the video card to output at 15kHz).  That likely precludes windows stuff, UNLESS you dual-booted somehow and then just used the D9200 & ati as a normal windows monitor.  If you can get all that config stuff worked out, it'd probably work swell, but warning: the dot pitch for the D9200is large, like .81 or something, and you're probably used to < .30 on recent VGA monitors.  (This is actually one of the D9200's draws, since it's, like, a real (multisync, no less) ARCADE monitor that doubles as a VGA monitor in it's spare time.)

The ArcadeVGA, besides keeping Andy in business, will probably be the most seamless way to bounce back and forth between resolutions.  Not really sure how it works or what additional (if any) config there is.  It's cheaper than most aiw 7500's I've seen, but a regular 7500 would probably do the trick if you don't need tv in/out.

Note that  this is just research for me, as I try to make the same decision you are.  I'm no expert, and I don't actually own any of this hardware.  We'll have to look to people who do for the straight story on what worked, how hard it was to set up, etc., so don't base any of your buying decisions on THIS post, please...

bm