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ArcadeVGA is a video card that allows people to drive a lower bandwidth signal than what is typically supported by modern PC monitors.  One of the last PC monitors to support this lower (15Khz) signal was the NEC MultiSync3D which was popular with Amiga users at the time it came out.
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'''ArcadeVGA''' is a video card, that was made specifically for Windows, that allows people to use an old [[arcade monitor]], typically using a 15Khz signal.
  
Most modern PC's consider 31Khz or 640x480 to be a more common lowest common denominator for expected low resolution support for a PC monitor. Because of this, modern graphics cards typically disable this mode to prevent users from being concerned that the video card might not work at low resolutions (in reality it would be the monitor, not the video card that wouldn't be working).
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Most modern PC video cards output a 31Khz or higher signal, which is incompatible and in some cases harmful to real arcade monitors. As video cards evolved, 15Khz signals were abandoned by card manufacturers as they were no longer used by modern SVGA monitors. This can make it difficult to get standard video cards to display correctly on an arcade monitor.
  
Using linux or hacking the driver, you can eliminate the need for such hardware. However, at the time of this writing, it's not generally know how to run in the lower resolution modes in windows.
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ArcadeVGA supports many arcade resolutions used by MAME<sup>tm</sup> and other emulators, so you don't need any software scaling in most games. This results in games being displayed on your arcade monitor exactly as they were originally intended.
  
===External Links===
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Some resolutions used by certain games may not work on your arcade monitor, so these may need to be disabled with a resolution tool.
  
*[http://www.nabble.com/modelines-for-xfree86-with-official-nvidia-driver-t129917.html Info on modelines]
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==See Also==
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* [[Video]]
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==External Links==
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*[http://www.ultimarc.com Official homepage for ArcadeVGA]
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*[http://mamewah.mameworld.info/downloads.htm M.A.M.E. Resolution Tool (support ArcadeVGA direct)]
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*[http://www.ultimarc.com/download.html Quickres Utility]
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Latest revision as of 09:04, 5 December 2013

ArcadeVGA videocard

ArcadeVGA is a video card, that was made specifically for Windows, that allows people to use an old arcade monitor, typically using a 15Khz signal.

Most modern PC video cards output a 31Khz or higher signal, which is incompatible and in some cases harmful to real arcade monitors. As video cards evolved, 15Khz signals were abandoned by card manufacturers as they were no longer used by modern SVGA monitors. This can make it difficult to get standard video cards to display correctly on an arcade monitor.

ArcadeVGA supports many arcade resolutions used by MAMEtm and other emulators, so you don't need any software scaling in most games. This results in games being displayed on your arcade monitor exactly as they were originally intended.

Some resolutions used by certain games may not work on your arcade monitor, so these may need to be disabled with a resolution tool.



See Also

External Links