Re: Help on plans for mame/jamma cabinet PLEASE HELP

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: : 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 : Sounds like it'll work : : -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? : It will wire into the 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? : A card with TV out will usually come with a special cable to hook to a TV, the connector for it will usually be below the monitor connector. : :When I hook my monitor into my pc, am I hooking it into the video card?) : Yes : : -I want a separate monitor also hooked up so I can still use my computer for computing needs. : no problem, though you need to run one at a time, becuase an arcade monitor uses a different frequency than a computer monitor. If you leave the arcade monitor on in windows you'll damage it, if you're running ArcadeOS with your PC monitor on you'll damage it. : : -I want to be able to run emulators through the pc and jamma through the original cab making this a mame/jamma machine. : I'm going that route myself : : -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? : Placing ArcadeOS in your startup folder might work... there is an older video card that had a "bug" that when you plugged in the TV-out it caused the wrong frequency to go to the monitor, the frequency it outputs is compatable with an arcade monitor. : :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? : most DOS programs can be run through ArcadeOS without trouble. : : Any help would be great. Thanks for reading!

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