Re: Vector/Raster switchable monitor?

From: Rodger Boots <rlboots_at_cedar-rapids.net>
Date: Wed Apr 04 2001 - 14:14:44 EDT

Yeah, that's the one. Ultracade. I didn't even stop at the booth to see what they play now.

Paul Sommers wrote:

> Rodger,
>
> You're not talking about the Ultracade that was at CGE2K last year. It does
> mainly the Taito and Konami games at the moment. It looked better than MAME
> but they wouldn't show the actual hardware to me.
>
> Cheers
> Paul
>
> Rodger Boots wrote:
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > > Anyone seen this auction?:
> > >
> > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1129833269
> > >
> > > Apparantly this guy has designed a monitor which can support both vector and raster games... (yeah right)..
> > >
> > > Either that or it's a MAME cabinet..
> > >
> > > It's even been "upgraded" to play with a joystick! I can hardly wait to try Tempest with a joystick... NOT!
> > >
> > > noel
> > >
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