Posted by SteveBills on 9, 2000 at 1:42 PM:
In Reply to: PC to Arcade Monitor questions.... posted by shane on 6, 2000 at 4:49 PM:
Shane,
I bought a JAMMA cab w/ 25" monitor too and did a pc2jamma conversion using a keyboard encoder.
If you can do some basic soldering it's a piece of cake
Unless you mess around with the capacitors in the back of the monitor I don't think you can kill yourself.
I believe you can get windows on the monitor if you use a pc2tv video card. . .but I've never tried.
Here is another good website for what you want to do:
http://users.evitech.fi/~arttuiy/arcade/jamma/index.html
Best of luck!
: Hello all again,
: I was going to use a TV with my cab but I found a distributor here in canada that has a Sega arcade machine with 25" monitor, Jamma board, coin slots, controls, etc, for $150cdn. Everything works except there is no game and the box is in need of minor repair (the one side has a dent where someone allegedly kicked it).
: Sooooo...my questions are:
: 1) How would I get this to interface with my PC? I know there are sites for info on it but I am not very good with wiring/soldering/electronics (doing my k/b hack was very difficult for me...shaky hands and all). Is someone with my lack of experience cabable of doing this?
: 2) If I go this route and just want to try it, can I not kill myself with the voltage that is left in the monitors capacitors?
: 3) Can i get windows to work with the monitor?
: 4) Am I missing something?
: Thanks,
: Shane