Reply 20 of 23, by fatkatsupra1
What game is this?!
Awesome job. Fantastic retro battlestation!
wrote:Thanks, m'dudes! […]
Thanks, m'dudes!
I'm really pleased that I didn't resort to something expensive like 3d-printing that would have blown this project way outta proportion. TFT makes a big difference, definitely, and it's sorta in keeping period-wise, since this is a Pentium 133 after all. It's like the better version of my first very own setup, which was a 120 MHz Cyrix 5x86 paired with a 1 Mb Trident video card.
A couple notes on the screen:
- native resolution is 800x600 which had me worried about VGA/SVGA scaling! SVGA in DOS looks decent enough. VGA I'm pleased with; however, there are oddities: in Prince of Persia I noticed that the image is a little larger than the screen, so a tiny bit on the right hand side is, in fact, missing (you'll notice if you look at the arabesque column at the right edge of the PoP title screen in my above post).. sorta inconsequential but still niggly. I haven't noticed this in other VGA Games but will do some testing.
- aligning screen and bezel is... trying. It's just a little off to the left, and I'm a closet perfectionist, so I'll redo it sometime
- the controller board gets awfully hot which is something I didn't anticipate. I'll redo the way it's mounted on the back of the screen RF-shield to give it more room to "breathe", as well as do a much larger cutout in the wall seperating the screen compartment from the mainboard to improve air circulation.
This last point has me worried, though. Worst case I'll have to work in a little 40mm fan.. next to the board? It can't mount it on top because there's just not enough room.
Anyway, here's some SVGA graphics: