Posted by immorta on October 16, 1999 at 06:12:12:
In Reply to: monitor glass, should I use tinted or clear? posted by immorta on October 16, 1999 at 05:53:26:
I notice a lot of people here prefer an arcade monitor to a PC monitor and one of the main reasons seems to be its more like the real thing because of the scan lines on an arcade monitor.
Now I have what might be a silly question. Doesn't MAME have an option for displaying scanline mode?
I ask because I'm using MAME on a Mac and this is one of the video options, I can have 1x1, 2x2, 3x3 video, all with or without scanlines. I am planning on using a PC monitor because.
a) its easy
b) vector games look good
c) it looks pretty good to me with scanlines enabled.
Am I missing the point here? I'm sure there are some other factors at work here, but if its because the PC MAME doesn't have the scanlines I think it should be on the wish list.
It will even speed up some games on a slower machine because only half the info is drawn to screen.
PS great bunch of people posting on this msg board