Posted by Shawn P. Maloy on October 07, 1999 at 01:30:20:
I have not heard this topic discussed yet so here it goes.....
I am in the process of building a emulator cabinet and was planning on using a rotating monitor mount. While I was testing different games for horizontal and vertical modes (rotating the monitor on my regular PC by hand), I noticed that MAME has the ability to display a "mirror image" by flipping the image on either the X or Y axis.
My idea is to mount the monitor pointed straight up and use a mirror for viewing it. I seem to remember some arcade game cabinets designed in this way.
This would make the rotation setup very easy because the weight of the display would not be "hanging". It would be "resting".
Using a mirror to display the image might allow me to magnify the image or make it seem closer (convex / concave mirrors).
If I only reflect the image once, everything outside of MAME is a mirror image and nearly impossible to read. I would imagine a utility exists to flip the display or even a generic video driver that has this feature.
I hope this generates some discussion.
Shawn P. Maloy