John Bennett
Senior Member
Re: [ukvac] Mame Quality (was: Can you remember the first arcade video you played?)
>>>>heh i dont think its anything to do with hardware I think its just a
>>>>blurred perception
its the same with c64 games ...
when it came out in the late 80s I thought the graphics were blinding , I
then didnt play the machine for about 10 years then i booted it up again and
the games werent as visually impressive .
thats why sometimes , just sometimes i refrain from booting up some of the
old machines I have just so I dont distort the memory I have of the games .
>From: "Guddler" <martin@guddler.com>
>Reply-To: ukvac@yahoogroups.com
>To: <ukvac@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: [ukvac] Mame Quality (was: Can you remember the first arcade video
>you played?)
>Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:22:06 -0000
>
> > Thats Mame for you though,
> >
> > Go get a machine!! It will all come flooding back
>
>Lets just explain that a little, just in case!...
>
>It's not really the fault of mame, more the fault of the video hardware.
>PC video hardware is by definition, such good quality that when
>displayed on most modern screens - pc monitors inparticular - they
>display at the wrong resolution and in such good quality that you can
>see every (by this time)large pixel.
>
>Put the game (emulated or otherwise) through the monitor it was intended
>to run on, and therefore at the resolution it was intended to run at,
>and bingo, mame doesn't make the games look so bad afterall - in fact
>they look pretty close to the original if not spot on.
>
>Wrong orientation sometimes, but there are utilites you can use (or is
>it ports of mame? Cant remember) that correct this too. Seen it done,
>doesn't look arf bad - cheating sacriledge obviously, but not arf bad
>all the same.
>
>Guddler.
>
> > > un back then !) in fact a lot of the games back then seemed to have
> > > better graphics than they actually were , probably because I was
> > > viewing them from below the cabinet monitor line (had to
> > use a stool),
> > > when i go and play them on MAME or other emu they hardly
> > seem as good
>
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>>>>heh i dont think its anything to do with hardware I think its just a
>>>>blurred perception
its the same with c64 games ...
when it came out in the late 80s I thought the graphics were blinding , I
then didnt play the machine for about 10 years then i booted it up again and
the games werent as visually impressive .
thats why sometimes , just sometimes i refrain from booting up some of the
old machines I have just so I dont distort the memory I have of the games .
>From: "Guddler" <martin@guddler.com>
>Reply-To: ukvac@yahoogroups.com
>To: <ukvac@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: [ukvac] Mame Quality (was: Can you remember the first arcade video
>you played?)
>Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:22:06 -0000
>
> > Thats Mame for you though,
> >
> > Go get a machine!! It will all come flooding back
>
>Lets just explain that a little, just in case!...
>
>It's not really the fault of mame, more the fault of the video hardware.
>PC video hardware is by definition, such good quality that when
>displayed on most modern screens - pc monitors inparticular - they
>display at the wrong resolution and in such good quality that you can
>see every (by this time)large pixel.
>
>Put the game (emulated or otherwise) through the monitor it was intended
>to run on, and therefore at the resolution it was intended to run at,
>and bingo, mame doesn't make the games look so bad afterall - in fact
>they look pretty close to the original if not spot on.
>
>Wrong orientation sometimes, but there are utilites you can use (or is
>it ports of mame? Cant remember) that correct this too. Seen it done,
>doesn't look arf bad - cheating sacriledge obviously, but not arf bad
>all the same.
>
>Guddler.
>
> > > un back then !) in fact a lot of the games back then seemed to have
> > > better graphics than they actually were , probably because I was
> > > viewing them from below the cabinet monitor line (had to
> > use a stool),
> > > when i go and play them on MAME or other emu they hardly
> > seem as good
>
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