Dumb Jamma question

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I'm a noobe to the entire arcade world. Just rediscovering my teenage years at 45!
The website jammaboards.com mentions that their 60n1 can use a standard arcade monitor (vertical) or a VGA PC monitor. My question is: If I use a standard PC monitor is the image going to display so that I can just stand the monitor on its side for a "vertical" display?

I did say that this was a dumb question..... I may be overthinkin it.

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The website jammaboards.com mentions that their 60n1 can use a standard arcade monitor (vertical) or a VGA PC monitor. My question is: If I use a standard PC monitor is the image going to display so that I can just stand the monitor on its side for a "vertical" display?

Correct. You'll have to turn the PC monitor on it's side. There is no electrical difference between a vertical arcade monitor and a horizontal one. The vertical monitor is just mounted sideways.

-Ian
 
Isn't there a scan difference in a vert vs horz? The physical "width" of the vertical tube face is smaller so the scan rate would have to be different right?

What I'm getting at is that you can't take a horizontal chassis and spin the yoke to make it a vert.... can U?
 
Naw, I'm pretty sure you can only flip vertical and horizontal images seperately from the yoke. Meaning you can flip the image to be backwards either way, but I don't think you can rotate the image 90 degrees from the yoke.

I had to play around with this stuff to get my image to read backwards on my 48-in-1 so that it would appear correct in my mirrored cabinet.
 
...and also if you're trying to keep the image displayed correctly for purposes of keeping your desktop monitor sitting right on a table, then the best result would probably just be to run MAME on your computer. If you plan on mounting into a cabinet, LCDs mount really easy.
 
Isn't there a scan difference in a vert vs horz? The physical "width" of the vertical tube face is smaller so the scan rate would have to be different right?

What I'm getting at is that you can't take a horizontal chassis and spin the yoke to make it a vert.... can U?

As far as I know you couldn't focus if you spin the yoke 90degrees.(never tried)
But that's not the point. The only difference between a vert and horz monitor is how it is mounted.
You still need to turn the monitor.

A VGA (pc) monitor is normally sitting horizontal (although some can spin vertically to better fit pages) so to connect it to a source that outputs vertically you just turn the monitor vertical.
 
Isn't there a scan difference in a vert vs horz? The physical "width" of the vertical tube face is smaller so the scan rate would have to be different right?

In an vertical arcade machine, the horizontal and vertical aren't swapped. The game board draws the playfield image rotated 90° and the monitor is installed 90° offset. Similarly, if you play a horizontal game on a vertically mounted monitor, it will appear rotated by 90°
 
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