Posted by Nickster on 9, 2000 at 9:56 AM:
In Reply to: TV in a cabinet posted by Druin on 8, 2000 at 2:00 AM:
I am using a new 27" RCA TV in my cabinet. I also have an ATI Rage Fury Pro video card. As expected, Windows fonts are hard to read, but I bumped up their size so that they are readable. I go right to DOS and ArcadeOS about 98% of the time, so it really isn't a factor for me. I am using S-Video between the TV and the ATI card, and I am VERY pleased. I picked the TV with the highest resolution that I could for the money I wanted to spend, and then I managed to find it on sale even. It is pretty sad that the TV in my cabinet is better than the TV in my living room.
One cool thing to do, actually it was the way I first played MAME on a non-PC monitor, was to borrow a friend's Hotrod (By Hanaho), and hook everything up to my home theater set up. It was like having PAC-MAN on a 4 foot tall screen. Boy did the bass shake when I gobbled up the dots. Anyway, it was VERY blocky then, but the pure size of the thing was fun.
: I have tried hooking up a 27 or so inch TV to the ATI all in wonder 128, but I hooked it up via RCA jacks because there was no Svideo on the TV.
: I hated the quality, I definitely couldn't do anything in graphical windows, and the games looked terrible along with some improper color bleeding.
: I am wondering has anyone tried both Svideo and composite video and compared it? Right now I'd be against investing in a TV for a cabinet based on what I saw, total unplayability despite other people's satisfactory results, but I haven't seen the Svideo difference. Where can I find some comparisons?