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I went out for the day to help a friend collect some furniture yesterday and got lots of fresh air and exercise as well as a lovely 15″ TFT monitor which had been rescued from being buried in a landfill. What a nice surprise that was, I can tell you.

I’ve had a play with it now and didn’t notice straight away that it was rotatable. I was well chuffed I can tell you when it suddenly twisted in my hand when I was adjusting the viewing angle on my desk and I realised that it could be put into portrait mode as well as landscape.

Of course as you can see the first thing I did was give MAME a little try (once I had told my video card drivers to rotate the image on the screen) and play with a few of the games that look a bit on the strange side when played on a normal landscape aspect screen, with those huge black bars to the left and right.

Galaga and Frogger and Scramble etc suddenly get a whole new leas of life. It’s really great.

I’ve wanted a twisty monitor for years and now I have one {does a happy dance}. Many thanks to the person who decided to get rid of this. I guess it was a business and they had dozens of them which they have replaced now with spanking new ones. It has a TCO’99 sticker on it so it’s definitely getting on a bit but it works a charm and I’m a happy bunny.

Now if only I can somehow get a eMac (donations plz) or some other OsX machine that will run OpenGL I will be in tech heaven and get back into coding in a big way. The Mac would not be connected to the net so there would be no distractions.

The internet is a blessing and a curse (as Adrian Monk would say) and as much as I love it dearly it does tend to be a time sink and just drains away the hours of your life. LOL

Tags: hardware, mame, tft

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