Re: Vector/Raster switchable monitor?

peter jones wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rodger Boots <rlboots@cedar-rapids.net>
> To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
> Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 01:08:34 -0500
> Subject: Re: VECTOR: Vector/Raster switchable monitor?
>
> >
> > I just got back from the ASI game show in 'Vegas. There is a company that makes an arcade cabinet using a MAME
> > ripoff. They are SO proud of it, and will tell you at great length why it's so much better than MAME because
> > "we have licenses to the games we use". It would be cute to look at their software and see if it isn't an
> > illegal MAME copy.
> >
> > Total turkeys!
> >
> > This machine, though, isn't that. As a later letter says, it IS a DOS version of MAME with a VGA monitor.
> >
> >
> > Noel Johnson wrote:
> >
> MAME IS DOS!

MAME is DOS/ WIN32/ LINUX.. and a few others
there are several MAME frontends that can boot from DOS, give a menu system, for selecting games... set modes etc...
including running directly off a Arcade Monitor, there are a few Issues like not turning on the Monitor til the MAME
frontend sets the refresh rate to something that won't destroy the monitor

>
> also, if you use a modified CGA/EGA card, you can use an arcade monitor!

>
> Then again,vga monitors are cheaper than real arcade monitors now.

Certain VGA cards can drive "Arcade" Monitors.. in a non-standard refresh rate, ATI Rage Cards can.. I've done it

>
>
> though i doubt that a vga monitor will still work in 20 years.
> (unlike my electrohome,wells-gardner & hantarex ones!)

Isn't that the truth :)

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Received on Tue Apr 3 10:21:24 2001