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That’s pretty f-ing cool… Think about this, too… Using the triple head method would also be a great way to independently drive each CRT of an older Rear Projector bigscreen television. That would be pretty nifty…

Re #3: An interesting idea springs from this: Just use two of the color guns of the old rear projector big screen television (say red and blue). Then, make some glasses with a red and a blue filter for each eye. Finally display left-hand and right-hand images. You’ll have a cheap big-screen 3D-TV! It boggles the mind! ;)

Don’t just think of the small TVs. You can also use large old workstation monitors. You can get those cheaply or even for free. I could get them for $15 each or less at a university surplus sale.

I was using a 19″ monitor from a Sun workstation for a while. The ATI Mach64 drivers allowed me to customize the refresh rate in Windows. Linux allows customization via SVGATextMode and XF86Config. I wanted to use the monitor for DOS too so I wrote a TSR and later converted it to a BIOS extension which I burned to an EPROM that I put in the network card. svgatextmode and x drivers for the card provided all the information I needed to write that tsr.

I used to have some old 27 inch NTSC displays from an airport that this would have been perfect for.

> What is pictured looks to be the cheapy $27
> black-and-white antenna-driven TV from
> walmart.

The TV I used was a Coby CX-TV1
~$18 at amazon.
athough Ive seen the exact same model under different names (newtech, memorex, etx). It has composite input.

> but modifying the VGACard Bios isn’t new. I
> have to done it to make it work with the
> Arcade Monitor. All people who has a PC
> inside his Arcade Machine has to done this

Any links to this, these people, or an image? Some other places Ive found to be somewhat helpful are http://www.wimsbios.com http://www.biosmods.com and http://www.mameworld.net/pc2jamma/monitors.html

Very nice!

btw, the Coby sets (among the dozens of cheapie brands selling that design) can be had for less than $10 in some electronics stores. Otherwise, a neighbor’s junked console TV wouldn’t be bad either.