Posted by Agent Davis on 30, 2000 at 3:57 AM:
Here was my plan:
-getting a fully functional jamma cabinet for $100 (i have one lined up, tested, ready for me to give money)
-wiring control panel to some sort of "switch board"
-to switchboard wire two daisy chained sidewinders to hook up to pc on one "switch" and on other "switch" wire jamma harness which is hooked to arcade monitor
-from pc wire to both a pc monitor and an arcade monitor (Questions: to wire to an arcade monitor is it necessary to get a special graphics card with tv out or can you just wire it in from your pc's monitor out? Also, do graphics cards with tv out have a special adapter to hook to a tv or is it essentially the same as hooking to a monitor? When I hook my monitor into my pc, am I hooking it into the video card?)
-I want a separate monitor also hooked up so I can still use my computer for computing needs.
-I want to be able to run emulators through the pc and jamma through the original cab making this a mame/jamma machine.
-I want to be able to run windows on my arcade monitor so I can use the sidewinders. THIS IS MY REAL DILEMMA! IF I CAN'T BOOT UP TO WINDOWS ON AN ARCADE MONITOR HOW CAN I USE MY SIDEWINDER CONTROL PANEL? I also want to be able to run NeoRageX on my cabinet. I heard as long as it is dos I can run any program through arcadeOS on my arcade monitor. Is this true?
Any help would be great. Thanks for reading!