Nah that should work fine.
Simon
On 11/16/2016 02:02 PM, Yevgeniy Soroka wrote:
Simon, only VGA, which I don't imagine should be a problem right.
-Geno
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Simon Heath <icefoxen@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:icefoxen@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Geno,
Can you check what kind of video inputs it has when you do so?
Thanks,
Simon
On 11/15/2016 09:11 PM, Yevgeniy Soroka wrote:
> I will measure the CRT monitor I have. Its pretty big, and useless to
> me. Would gladly donate it.
> -Geno
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 9:02 PM, Eris Symms <eris.symms@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:eris.symms@xxxxxxxxx>
> <mailto:eris.symms@xxxxxxxxx ;<mailto:eris.symms@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>
> What about throwing a modern TV or monitor in there and relying on
> the software for the CRT effect?
>
> Eris
>
>
> On Nov 15, 2016 8:47 PM, "Simon Heath" <icefoxen@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:icefoxen@xxxxxxxxx>
> <mailto:icefoxen@xxxxxxxxx ;<mailto:icefoxen@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>
> Well I've spent two weekends fighting with the old computer, two
> weekends messing around trying to make the video output work
> with a RPi, and $60 on video converters, and I'm officially sick
> of it. I have a converter board that claims to be able to
> output to the old-ass CRT format the monitor accepts, but its
> VGA output only outputs, oddly enough, VGA. I thought it would
> output old-ass-CRT-through-a-VGA-connector, which is what the
> monitor is hooked up to accept, somehow, through some kind of
> weird control board screwed into the case in the least
> accessible location possible. There are pins and wires on the
> converter board I have that MIGHT output the right signal, but
> I'm not enough of an electrical engineer to be able to figure
> out how to wire the damn thing together and I'm not patient
> enough to try.
>
> So if people want to pass a hat around to spring for a new
> monitor I'll gladly help put the thing together and make it
> work, but I don't have the cash to do it myself. If someone
> else wants to solve the video issue I'll take on the software
> side of things, but I'm bloody sick of fighting with it. So,
> that's it.
>
> All my notes are on the wiki:
> http://www.hackpittsburgh.org/wiki/index.php?title=ArcadeMachine
<http://www.hackpittsburgh.org/wiki/index.php?title=ArcadeMachine>
>
<http://www.hackpittsburgh.org/wiki/index.php?title=ArcadeMachine
<http://www.hackpittsburgh.org/wiki/index.php?title=ArcadeMachine>>
>
> Simon
>
>
>
