Posted by spazzman on July 22, 1999 at 11:47:27:
In Reply to: Re: Another TV Question, please respond! posted by Jim on July 21, 1999 at 22:44:14:
I have the Viper V330 and have no problems getting any EMU's to display. They do however need to be set to use VESA 2.0 and 640x480 resolution or the program wont start. For those reading that dont know, the TV out on the V330 ( and the V550, I'm assuming) work like this.... If you turn on the machine with a computer monitor plugged in, you automatically get all of your display resolutions. If you turn on your machine with a tv plugged in, you automatically have only one resolution choice, 640x480. You can not run both displays simultaneously, and you can not 'hot-swap' displays. So what this means is you can not run mame unless you specify the 640x480 resolution. (when you're hooked up to a TV). Otherwise it will give you an error that says your resolution (320x200, 800x600, etc.) is not available and exit on out. Of course, I am referring to using DOS mame. Hope this helps you out...
-spazzman
: I have a viper550 in my computer and it is hooked to my tv.
: I use it mainly for surfing the web and dvd's. But I have had
: nothing but trouble with getting mame to display properly.
: I'm not sure if it is me or the card but I still haven't got
: anything to work acceptably. I consider myself fairly
: mame literate and it has been a pain. I think I am
: having hardware conflicts between mame and my video card.
: Sometimes my screen just locks up. Anyway... to stop my
: ramblings... beware with tv out. Could everyone who
: has got tv out to work successfully post with what mame settings
: and video card they are using.
: On the plus side robotron is mind blowing on a 36in
: Trinitron with the home theatre speakers blasting :)