On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 19:08:48 -0800, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 19:21:34 -0400, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 21:58:05 +0000, Joerg Bartels wrote:
>>> Hi, all !
>>> I use Arachne on my TV-screen (but also on my arcademachine :) )
>>> just because it�s functional and funny. Like you know it is very easy to
>>> interface vga or svga videosignals (without electronics ! ) to a TV or
>>> aracdemachine with high RGB quality, it's mostly like plug in your
>>> pc-monitor, because of some smart DOS- ! software like VGATV or ArcadeOS.
>> <snip>
>> Very interesting, Jerry. Where do you get this software, and how much
>> does it cost?
> Sam.....you will, of course, exercise the usual caution about not
> trying to switch your video card into some "burnup" configuration
> (not too likely)....and will be sure to reset everything when you
> switch back to your monitor (because the video card may not burn
> up, but you in cripplingly injure your monitor) This stuff writes
> to the video card bare-metal registers to do its magic, and it is
> quite (no, VERY..) effective....I used to play games using it...
> long years ago.....
> gregy
Well, time goes by, nowadays -in my opinion- this free Dos-software
is very effective (and not so hazardous :) when you know what you do).
In combination with a SCART-plug it blows away every videocard with
TV-out when you use it together with M.A.M.E (Multi.Arcade.Machine.Emulator)
and it can compare with this videocards showing MPEG1, MOV, AVI and
(CD-I) files together with eg. Quickview (DOS), and with older DOS-games
and in Dos-textmodes VGATV is also better than a composit- or svideocard.
Particularly Retrogameing brings great progress in the field of useing TVs
or older monitors with modern computers, take a look at http://www.retrogames.com
MAMEworld, PCTOJAMMA page, but this scene is -I think- like good skateboarders
< doing not talking > a little bit reserved, may be because of postings like
"Why do you play pacman on an arcademonitor res. 320x240 when there is
Quake 3 res. 1280x960 ;)".
ps. sorry for my empty mail
Joerg
