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ArcadeVGA is a video card, that allows people to use a old arcade monitor, typically used a 15khz signal.
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ArcadeVGA is a video card, that was made specifically for Windows, that allows people to use a old arcade monitor, typically used a 15khz signal.
  
Most modern PC's monitors consider 31Khz or higher signal, wich given problems with using in a real arcade monitor. Modern video cards typically disable 15khz to prevent users from being used by the driver. This may get this pretty hard to get this to work on a Arcade monitor (even with Adcanced MAME).
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Most modern PC's monitors consider 31Khz or higher signal, wich given problems with using in a real arcade monitor. Modern video cards typically disable 15khz to prevent users from being used by the driver. This may get this pretty hard to get this to work on a Arcade monitor (even with Advanced MAME).
  
With using this videocard it a lots easier to get a standard MAME and most other emulators to run on a arcade monitor.
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ArcadeVGA support many MAME<sup>tm</sup> based resoulutions, so you dosen't need any software scaling in most games. But some resoulutions may not like on your arcade monitor, so these may need to been disabled with a resoulution tool.
  
While ArcadeVGA support about 20 lowbased resoulutions,  some may not work on a arcade monitor. You can prevent MAME to using these resoulutions by disabling them with a tool (M.A.M.E. Resolution Tool).
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By using Windows XP, you may want to see the desktop using a lower resoulution than 800x600. By doiung that, you can use [http://www.ultimarc.com/download.html Quickres Utility]. This utility can select any resoulution, the videocard have.
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==External Links==
 
 
===External Links===
 
 
*[http://www.ultimarc.com Officiel homepage for ArcadeVGA]
 
*[http://www.ultimarc.com Officiel homepage for ArcadeVGA]
 
*[http://mamewah.mameworld.net/downloads.htm M.A.M.E. Resolution Tool (support ArcadeVGA direct)]
 
*[http://mamewah.mameworld.net/downloads.htm M.A.M.E. Resolution Tool (support ArcadeVGA direct)]
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*[http://www.ultimarc.com/download.html Quickres Utility]

Revision as of 08:45, 31 March 2006

ArcadeVGA videocard

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

Most modern PC's monitors consider 31Khz or higher signal, wich given problems with using in a real arcade monitor. Modern video cards typically disable 15khz to prevent users from being used by the driver. This may get this pretty hard to get this to work on a Arcade monitor (even with Advanced MAME).

ArcadeVGA support many MAMEtm based resoulutions, so you dosen't need any software scaling in most games. But some resoulutions may not like on your arcade monitor, so these may need to been disabled with a resoulution tool.


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