A NEW WAY to hook up TV AS VIDEO FOR ARCADE EMULATION


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Posted by Adam Weisbrod on 16, 2001 at 1:40 AM:

I found a new way to use Mame on my TV I bought a
TVVIEW PCI VIDEO BORD its a seprate bord for youre regular pci video card witch ties in with a patch cable
to allow SVIDEO or composite video OUT at all times
in windows whell after loading windows it lets you
do dos window emulation and works up to 1152x864
all freq sofar i can get the thing to work in dos
by just typing MAME dkong -noscanlines -800x600
witch -noscanlines turns off the scanlines looks
better on the tv with out scanlines and looks exactly like arcade games you must have a big tv though
I have a 20 inch tv and I can play unreal tournament
at 1152x864 32 bit with my voodoo5 or play
asteroids at 1024x768 -noscanlines on my tv
infact im online now using my tv to post this now
granted after 800x600 its a little hard to read
the windows but it has a zoom with scrool feauter
its made by focus enhancements 132 north road
sudbury ma 01776 1-800-5386000 now I am extatic
with the performance of the card since it lets me
use the monitor at the same time as the tv i can tweak
the emulation to work with tv modes
known tv modes are 224x288 320x200 640x480 800x600
1024x768 and in windows 1152x864 is the highest
for some reason they say 1024x768 is highest mode
on tv but it works at 1152x864! in windows and also
works in dos window fullscreen alt enter
you make a shortcut to command.com and right mouse click
and click protected mode memmory and have set blaster=axx ix dx t?
and then you can run any mame game from dos
some games like SPACE INVADERS 91 require weird modes
but do work on the tv so youre all wrong about
the tv not working with the computer because for some
reason this bord auto selects the freq for the tv
i can change the monitor freq in video card and
the tv stays same if i go over 1152x864 it goes black
but computer monoitor stays on always ! .
so for the cheap way to get youre TV as a mame box
just get a TVVIEW PCI they have external boxes but they
donot goto 1152x864 they cost about $150 whell worth
the price since you can surf internet on youre tv
with 20 to 16 inch fonts in netscape or large on E
.
I also have a happauge tv tuner witch works great
on the TV in a small window in corner by the clock
i can start AIM INSTANT MESSANGER and the news ticker
and change all colors to pink witch is see
threw on tv tuner window! meaning I can watch tv
and see news ticker and zoom the tvview so i can
see the news ticker and the clock and the tv all at the
same time a nother advantge is it hooks up to the
vcr in stereo because of the stereo soundblaster
I could get a new sound blaster and a 5.1 dolby
dts and a dvd drive and watch on my tv but if i did that I could also just get a BIG SCREEN too!.
so for now ill use mameload and keep playing
I forgot where i got mameload but its good because
it lets you select vesa or vga mode only affects the
monitor not tv out this card is the best.
drawbacks sometimes you if switch windows from
task to task like quakeII if you get kicked sometimes
if you kill the control panel window for tvview
bord you can get stuck in a corner of the zoom window
and lose the autoscrool and unless you fill desktop
with icons for control you could get stuck
so i used the bottom quick start win98 se bar .
this is the easiest way to make a mame box
then all you do is get the joystick working and
a COMPUSA CRYSTAL mouse $19.99 trakball running and
you have a mame box. the box is the hard part to get.
the control panel can be made or bought .
you could rip a controler joystick apart a gamepad
and then solder steal its inputs to real buttons
that way you dont have to ruin the keybord
then just map joystick buttons to the start buttons
or solder to the bottom of keybord too.
wow that was fun. have fun building mame bords
no the tv only runs at like 56HZ but the TVVIEW
emulates 1152x864 at 75MHZ with my monitor but
the tv flickers alot atthat rate so the most best
mode is 800x600 but for mame the range is more


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