why not use a scaler?

Sorry, the highest resolution I ever used is 800x600. Windows shouldn't crash (dosbox doesn't load drivers, it only uses them), and there is always the fullscreen option.

Dominus, how would a scaler show more of the drawing on the screen at once? PCAD would still only be displaying 640x480 pixels worth of the schematic or PCB layout. It would simply be bigger, with the scaler.

Unless I'm not understanding what you mean...

HAL, thanks for the word on dosbox not changing the graphics-chip settings. That gave me confidence to just try it.

PCAD seems to start without error, and the dosbox window does auto-resize to basically full-screen.

However, it's not drawing properly. It is repeating the first 480 pixels vertically. I.e. the bottom couple inches of screen is a repeat of the top couple inches.

It -looks- like it might be displaying -both- the additional couple hundred pixels AND the top couple hundred on top of that. But it's hard to be sure...it's kind of a jumble...grin.

I initially brought it up with the conf file as it was, i.e. windowed....but then also tried the full-screen setting, with the FS resolution parameter at 1024x768. No difference...seemed to act exactly the same.

It does not appear to have any problems horizontally.

It wasn't clear to me that you wanted to see more of the drawing, I thought you'd just want to see it bigger.

Hi folks,

I'm also trying to run P-CAD in a dosbox environment, just like "dozer" but i am encountering a PS2-mouse problem.
First this info :

I'm using "dosbox_30.09.2009.exe". DOSBox starts up, then i mount the p-cad directory. After running psave succesfully, i manually start up with entering "pccaps". The program starts also succesfully but i can only draw circles and lines with keyboard. I cannot move the p-cad crosshair with my PS-2 mouse. The strange thing is : i have a black mouse-arrow in the dosbox environment itself and i can move it around, but when i'm in p-cad itself, i cannot use my mouse for clicking on the p-cad commands or drawing lines,etc with my PS2-mouse.
In the DOSBox Status Window I get the following errors :

Serial1:Errors:Framing 0, Parity 0, Overrun RX:0 (IF0:0), TX:13, Break 0
Serial2:Errors:Framing 0, Parity 0, Overrun RX:0 (IF0:0), TX:1, Break 0

Can somebody help me out, to get my ps2-mouse working in the pcad program itself ?

Thanks in advance.

Greetings, Volegna

POST IN YOUR OWN THREAD.

also check if your program allows you to set a PS/2 mouse. IIRC, DOSBox doesn't support internal serial mouse option.

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