Posted by Prophet of Retrogames on 9, 2000 at 4:58 AM:
In Reply to: WG U3100 and windows ? posted by ElvisP on 8, 2000 at 7:10 PM:
Honestly, with some tweaking the VGA display is excellent - I can even do work at mine. 800x600 is displayable but not clear enough for work. Resolutions beyond that are not feasible.
For games it looks awesome. Seriously, since games are the main app in a cabinet, I can tell you the U3100 will make you happy - the games will look the way they're supposed to look, and you'll have VGA windows for occasional work and web browsing.
-P-
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: I've been thinking long and hard about building my own mame cabinet. Problem was the availability of a cabinet here in the Netherlands. I started thinking of building a cabinet from scratch but recently i found someone who has several cabinets and i can get one from him.
: For the interface i'm gonna use a hagstrom encoder, seems to be the best way to go. I'm not really sure what to use for display though. I want to be able to run windows on the cabinet. I've done quite a lot of research but I'm still not sure what to use.
: Easiest way to go would be to put a pc monitor in the cab. However i may be able to get an arcade monitor from the guy too. I read on several pages the WG U3100 arcade monitor can display vga screens. Is this in fact the case and does it work well ? Also is this a type of monitor that's standard in any kind of cabinet ? As I said he has several different cabinets, maybe one of them has a WG U3100 in it already. Another option would be to put a television in the cabinet and use a gfx card with tv out.
: I may even go for a small monitor for windows and a bigger screen for mame, i can get a sega cabinet which has room for the small and big monitor.
: Well I hope to hear from people who are using a WG U3100 monitor, but i'll probably just go for a standard pc monitor to start with.