Re: Horizontal & Vertical workaround?

I also have an horizontally mounted arcade monitor, and personally don't
mind using interlaced-scan video modes for vertical games which rotated
require > 256 lines.

For example, for Pac-Man (and all games with the same resolution):

224x288/display_mode generate-interlace
224x288/display_resize mixed

Your idea sounds good, and I am interested in the results if you give it a
try, but I think you should ask yourself if it's worth doing that, or just
get another monitor and mount it vertically.

If I had more space, I would setup another arcade for vertical games.
Meanwhile, the "generate-interlace" and "mixed resize" combo has kept me
satisfied.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Cranney" <[email protected]>
To: <advancemame-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 21:00
Subject: [advancemame-users] Horizontal & Vertical workaround?


>
>
> Hi all. Can anyone tell me if this is a dumb idea or not?
>
> I've got a 15.75hz arcade monitor (horizontal). I'm wrestling with the
> whole drama of horizontal vs vertical games. I can run 240 lines quite
> nicely that fill the screen. I can also run 288 lines nicely, but I have
> to adjust the physical monitor vsize down to get them all on the screen. I
> tried to find a software config that will allow me to have both 240 and
> 288 onscreen at once and fill the screen, but no joy.
>
> What I'm thinking about doing is building a little circuit that will flip
> the monitor vsize control between two configurations, and driving that
> switch  off a keyboard led. Then I can script the switch in advmame for
> vertical games vs horizontal.
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions?
>
> JC
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