Posted by Scott Oberg on October 05, 1999 at 13:44:56:
In Reply to: Re: Windows 95 on arcade monitor posted by Andy Geez on October 04, 1999 at 18:56:04:
I tried the VGATV driver early on when I was trying to get my monitor to work, without success. I later had to tweak the HScan of arcadeos to get it to work properly from DOS, so I suspect this might actually be a vid card issue.
Has anyone ever loaded the VGATV TSR and then tried to launch windows? Does windows 'reset' the video signal during the bootup?
how does arcadeos accomplish this? Is there any reason that the same process can't occur during the windows boot sequence?
I'm afraid that I don't know enough about the innards of video technology to figure this out. Any ideas? Does someone with a non-ATI (not supported by driver) video card wanna try launching the NTSC video TSR driver and find out?
I think this would be a huge leap forward for the hobby. It could potentially allow your arcade game to be a full function "information appliance", allowing things like checking mail, websurfing, file print and proxy serving, TV, radio, and stereo tuning, all from inside an arcade game.
I know this is a bit of a bastardization of the hobby from a purists perspective, but dammit, it would be so whizzy...