Posted by Ohso on 14, 2000 at 12:27 AM:
In Reply to: About your Voodoo card... posted by mckechnossomy on 13, 2000 at 11:28 PM:
Voodoo3 3000. It's not bad, but a little fuzzy sometimes. I played Discs of Tron in MAME32 outputting to my old commodore monitor (which is really just a tv with composite input) and it was playable but not nearly as crisp as my svga monitor. For really good TV out I would recommend the Matrox cards like the G400. Matrox cards may not be the fastest, but they are decently fast and have some of the best features and quality of any card on the market. The G400 and a few other new cards have a cool feature called dual-head that allows two monitors off one card, and one of them can be a television. Also, they are the ONLY card on the market that allows you to have two simultaneous displays at DIFFERENT refresh rates.
Normally if you have a monitor and a tv hooked up at the same time, your monitor looks really bad because the vdeo board is forced to drop the refresh to match the TV. The Matrox card has 2 separate controllers and this doesn't happen. Thus you could have a windows desktop on your monitor and MAME running full screen on the TV.
Imagine not having to stop a game to get new roms for mame. :)
: What model of Voodoo do you have and how well does it work on a TV? I wouldn't mind some Half-Life and Quake II to go with my MAME.
: The prototype was a joke of course :)
: : There is a cable that will convert s-video to composite. I got mine either with my Voodoo card or with my Creative DVD decoder (Don't remember which). I don't know where you can buy one, but hopefully knowing they exist will help a bit.
: : P.S. Saw your site, love your control panel. I checked out the link to the prototype you had built. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
: : ;)
: : : I'm planning to buy a video card with TV-out, maybe the ATI Expert 98. My TV has neither s-video or composite (it's one of those round cable connectors), I'm running composite through my VCR for console systems right now. The video cards look like they only have s-video TV-out, is there an inexpensive way to convert s-video to composite?