Posted by exph on October 29, 1999 at 16:24:39:
In Reply to: Rotating Monitors? posted by Chazz on October 29, 1999 at 14:36:54:
The reason is that some arcade games featured
a vertical monitor(pacman galaga etc...) This
gives you a screen that is basically really tall
and skinny. Most other games are your standard
horizontal mount(street fighter II, rampage etc..)
The problem arises when you try to play a vertical
game with your monitor in a horizontal position.
You will get a little tiny image in the center of
your screen. This is because mame takes the vertical
image rotates and scales it to fit the horizontal
screen. Most people want a big picture when playing
games like galaga so we make our monitors rotate!
Are you picking up what I'm putting down? Hope
this helps...
:::exph:::