What mame do you have running on the Arcade System Bill?
I have done a little tinkering myself - made a new top for the three night-stands I use as a cabinet to house my consoles and put my tv on. Turned out nicely with a white glossy surface on top of Birchwood cabinets. It will stay like this for a while until I am going to try and get a new cabinet that fits in that spot and doesn't look home-made.
My old Sony Trinitron 19" is a voluminous beast so I made the top of the cabinets roughly 15cm deeper so I would have more room in front and in back of the television. It sticks out at the back leaving quite a bit of room for cables and ac sockets. Then I reconnected everything and noticed that the scart/rgb signal wouldn't come up clear any more. Fiddled with the cables but to no avail, I think the scart box in the tv has a problem as it worked fine with my even smaller 14" trinitron tv. So I went out and got myself a 26" LE26A330 Samsung LCD that totally fits the spot. I have a couple of rgb/scart switches and connected to it is a Dreamcast, Sega Saturn, Nintendo Gamecube, N64, Snes, Famicom, C64, PS2. The Trinitron is going to the house in France.
The old Xbox has gotten a long overdue NTSC-eprom treatment from me and luckily it survived my tinkering. It is now connected through component video and what an improvement it is. PAL Xboxes have all the parts to output component video but Microsoft doesn't want EU users to have HDTV images with the original Xbox so they've left it out. The xbox bios reads the eprom and either displays or doesn't display the HDTV settings. Makes you wonder - why do that to PAL users? It's even more complicated technically to do something like that. Anyways if Microsoft had enabled component video on the PAL xbox I bet they would have had even more sales. The PAL PS2 is able to output a component signal so WFT?
Anyways most PAL games run just fine on the patched NTSC-eprom - 60 fps also ensures a decent smooth game play. Far smoother than the original PAL 50fps setting ever did. This 50Hz in combination with blotched resolutions and refresh rates is something most other consoles have in common apart from the Nextgen Xbox 360 and PS3.
I got unexpanded Vic-20 and tested it. Works fine, I do have a 1540 and a 1541 drive on it to use and I am going to try out some software for it. Beats tinkering around in Vice - even though it is an excellent emulator. I seemed to have misplaced my 1541 drive cables and I have no way of getting new ones. Bill do you have any suggestions? It is a shame the vic-20 emblem fell off and is missing. It is very cool to sit the bleached looking Vic20 and its bigger brother next to each other. Both my brown breadbox and white breadbox were produced in Germany - probably in the same factory.
The Dell Optiplex GX270 - which I hack around in on OSX - has received a memory trade. There was an assortment of ram modules in the 4 memory banks amounting to 1.6Gb of ram but I replaced them with 1.5Gb of DDR matched pair memory modules. Two 256Mb ones and two 512Mb ones, all DDR and I must say the machine feels a lot snappier. Both in Windows XP SP3 as in OSX 10.4.11.
I intend to throw a Live Party with some of my friends this Wednesday December 24th around 11AM GMT-1 (Amsterdam Time Zone) and we'll be playing Gears of War2 and a couple of other multi player games on-line. If people from here want to join that would be cool. Perhaps organizing something similar with AA readers would be a cool idea too. Let us know if you are interested in something like that.
What mame do you have running on the Arcade System Bill?
I have done a little tinkering myself - made a new top for the three night-stands I use as a cabinet to house my consoles and put my tv on. Turned out nicely with a white glossy surface on top of Birchwood cabinets. It will stay like this for a while until I am going to try and get a new cabinet that fits in that spot and doesn't look home-made.
My old Sony Trinitron 19" is a voluminous beast so I made the top of the cabinets roughly 15cm deeper so I would have more room in front and in back of the television. It sticks out at the back leaving quite a bit of room for cables and ac sockets. Then I reconnected everything and noticed that the scart/rgb signal wouldn't come up clear any more. Fiddled with the cables but to no avail, I think the scart box in the tv has a problem as it worked fine with my even smaller 14" trinitron tv. So I went out and got myself a 26" LE26A330 Samsung LCD that totally fits the spot. I have a couple of rgb/scart switches and connected to it is a Dreamcast, Sega Saturn, Nintendo Gamecube, N64, Snes, Famicom, C64, PS2. The Trinitron is going to the house in France.
The old Xbox has gotten a long overdue NTSC-eprom treatment from me and luckily it survived my tinkering. It is now connected through component video and what an improvement it is. PAL Xboxes have all the parts to output component video but Microsoft doesn't want EU users to have HDTV images with the original Xbox so they've left it out. The xbox bios reads the eprom and either displays or doesn't display the HDTV settings. Makes you wonder - why do that to PAL users? It's even more complicated technically to do something like that. Anyways if Microsoft had enabled component video on the PAL xbox I bet they would have had even more sales. The PAL PS2 is able to output a component signal so WFT?
Anyways most PAL games run just fine on the patched NTSC-eprom - 60 fps also ensures a decent smooth game play. Far smoother than the original PAL 50fps setting ever did. This 50Hz in combination with blotched resolutions and refresh rates is something most other consoles have in common apart from the Nextgen Xbox 360 and PS3.
I got unexpanded Vic-20 and tested it. Works fine, I do have a 1540 and a 1541 drive on it to use and I am going to try out some software for it. Beats tinkering around in Vice - even though it is an excellent emulator. I seemed to have misplaced my 1541 drive cables and I have no way of getting new ones. Bill do you have any suggestions? It is a shame the vic-20 emblem fell off and is missing. It is very cool to sit the bleached looking Vic20 and its bigger brother next to each other. Both my brown breadbox and white breadbox were produced in Germany - probably in the same factory.
The Dell Optiplex GX270 - which I hack around in on OSX - has received a memory trade. There was an assortment of ram modules in the 4 memory banks amounting to 1.6Gb of ram but I replaced them with 1.5Gb of DDR matched pair memory modules. Two 256Mb ones and two 512Mb ones, all DDR and I must say the machine feels a lot snappier. Both in Windows XP SP3 as in OSX 10.4.11.
I intend to throw a Live Party with some of my friends this Wednesday December 24th around 11AM GMT-1 (Amsterdam Time Zone) and we'll be playing Gears of War2 and a couple of other multi player games on-line. If people from here want to join that would be cool. Perhaps organizing something similar with AA readers would be a cool idea too. Let us know if you are interested in something like that.
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