Re: Removing stretching with black borders

Posted on 2006-08-27, 16:43

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I wonder why developers of old games didn't start with the correct aspect ratio to begin with? Why make a wrong (squished vertically) version to let the stretching correct it? Seems weird to me 😀

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Re: Removing stretching with black borders

Posted on 2006-08-27, 15:36

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Freddo wrote: wd wrote: And i'm sure the 320x200 modes never had any black bars on top or below on my old PC. Indeed they didn't. While 320x200 was/is a non 4:3 resolution, it still used the whole 4:3 screen, which made the pixels to be tall instead of square. But I have a 5:4 monitor.

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Re: Removing stretching with black borders

Posted on 2006-08-26, 22:08

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ChaosFish, I followed your previous steps along with your new resolution step and now it works perfectly: the image scales until it meets the border at both sides of my screen, and leaves two black borders: one at the bottom and one at the top of my screen. Now I can play in fullscreen without the …

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Re: Removing stretching with black borders

Posted on 2006-08-26, 14:39

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I followed your steps but it still scales the image across the whole screen, leaving no black borders, so it still "breaks" the aspect ratio.

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Removing stretching with black borders

Posted on 2006-08-25, 21:31

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Hey. I love Dosbox to death but I still have one issue with it, and I'm sure there is a possibility to fix it. I tried to tweak my config file but I don't get the result I want (more on that later). Basically, I don't like how my games are vertically stretched out when I play them in fullscreen. I …

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Re: PREY to require activation on install

Posted on 2006-06-21, 00:49

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You can do either way 😁 😉 You told it to Tim in person.

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Re: PREY to require activation on install

Posted on 2006-06-20, 22:26

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Yeah, the way Scott Miller was praising it 😀

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Re: PREY to require activation on install

Posted on 2006-06-20, 19:29

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I know, but I don't see how that's new.

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Re: PREY to require activation on install

Posted on 2006-06-20, 16:30

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According to valve (I emailed them) they have said that a new offline-indefinately mode has been added since Episode 1 was released. While you still need initial authentication, after that if steam can't see the network it just switches to offline mode forever until you tell it otherwise. Meaning …

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Re: PREY to require activation on install

Posted on 2006-06-19, 23:47

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I guess I have mixed feelings on this. While not really liking online activation systems, I can see where digital distribution is the way of the future, and don't see any other alternatives after physical media is no longer distributed. Yes, but on line distribution is not the same as on line …

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Re: PREY to require activation on install

Posted on 2006-06-19, 18:00

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Besides, I bet that the page long letters which you received and which you impressed you so much are just templates, which are copied/pasted into E-Mails as answers with enough tidbits added to make them look personal. This would be worth the efforts, since they must get these kind of inquires …

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Re: PREY to require activation on install

Posted on 2006-06-19, 16:39

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Ah cerb, welcome! :D You followed from 3dr ;) Actually, I'm already a member here since one year ago. It's indeed from 3DR, because I made that Crystal Caves thread (HUD shakes in DOSBOX) However I'm not letting that stop me from playing some of the best games out there. HL2 Episode 1 was even …

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Re: PREY to require activation on install

Posted on 2006-06-18, 11:34

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I'm also against on line authentication, it's USELESS because: - The authorities at 3DR said the authentication won't include a decrypting process. Well, what stops pirates from manually installing the game them? Thereby skipping the installer and thus also skipping the on line authentication. …

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Re: Crystal Caves Hud Shaking

Posted on 2005-08-20, 22:34

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Ykhwong's build? :disapproving: Did you go through the dosbox.conf and make sure your cycles etc were set properly? It should run better most of the time...not worse. What resolution/scaling type are you using? I never configured anything in both in the latest CVS and the latest gold version (0.63) …

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Re: Crystal Caves Hud Shaking

Posted on 2005-08-20, 21:09

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for some reason, the latest CVS makes dosbox perform VERY bad. lowering or raising cpu cycles doesn't work. I'm behind a 550 mhz machine right now, and it used to work. what is the problem? I will reinstall the normal 0.63 version now, without CVS.

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Re: Crystal Caves Hud Shaking

Posted on 2005-08-19, 23:15

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I don't know, but maybe you can implement a hotkey to enable/disable the VGA border in any game (and enable it by default) so if it annoys someone: one click and it's gone, and if he wants to see it to see what color it has: one click and it's back? :) just like the screen capture hotkey, which I …

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Re: Crystal Caves Hud Shaking

Posted on 2005-08-19, 21:25

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it looks very cool, unfortunately it makes the HUD look very weird. it almost defeats the purpose of making the HUD stop shaking. (almost ;)) anyway, it's exciting to see how much effort people are putting into geting old games to work. thanks guys! so that border thing, will that work in any game …

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Re: Crystal Caves Hud Shaking

Posted on 2005-08-18, 22:03

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HunterZ wrote: Huh? well, because you can't see the GAME borders of the game then, because it's replaced by the COLOR borders 😀

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Re: Crystal Caves Hud Shaking

Posted on 2005-08-18, 20:23

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well, then you are making the border of the game invisible, is that not "unhandy"?

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Re: Crystal Caves Hud Shaking

Posted on 2005-08-18, 12:02

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maybe you can change the background of DOS, because now we have black around the screen? 😀 you can let it change to what the game wants, for crystal caves: red, and after picking up all crystals, green 😁

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