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First post, by simian

Posted on 2004-05-08, 11:55

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I think it wood be good if there was a fullscreen stretch to fit option, so you could put it in a high resolution but still have the picture take up the whole screen.
Why would you want to do that? So you don't get those nasty horizontal lines that you get at low resolutions on big monitors.

Reply 1 of 4, by robertmo

Posted on 2004-05-08, 12:29

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if you have a nvidia card turn on double scanning in your video drivers settings. you won't have those lines this way

Reply 2 of 4, by simian

Posted on 2004-05-08, 13:02

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I tried it and I got a black screen with a garbled monitor error message at lower resolutions. 🙁
Any idea why that might be happening?

Reply 3 of 4, by robertmo

Posted on 2004-05-08, 13:07

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lower the refreshrate

Reply 4 of 4, by Markus

Posted on 2004-05-10, 17:05

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If you can compile dosbox yourself, do this:
change in sdlmain.cpp following lines:

1if (sdl.desktop.fullscreen) {
2    if (sdl.desktop.fixed) {
3        double ratio_w=(double)sdl.desktop.width/(width*scalex);
4        double ratio_h=(double)sdl.desktop.height/(height*scaley);
5        if ( ratio_w < ratio_h) {
6            sdl.clip.w=(Bit16u)sdl.desktop.width;
7            sdl.clip.h=(Bit16u)(height*scaley*ratio_w);
8        } else {
9            sdl.clip.w=(Bit16u)(width*scalex*ratio_h);
10            sdl.clip.h=(Bit16u)sdl.desktop.height;
11        }

1if (sdl.desktop.fullscreen) {
2    if (sdl.desktop.fixed) {
3        double ratio_w=(double)sdl.desktop.width/(width*scalex);
4        double ratio_h=(double)sdl.desktop.height/(height*scaley);
5        sdl.clip.w=(Bit16u)sdl.desktop.width;
6        sdl.clip.h=(Bit16u)sdl.desktop.height;

There are two occurences of this.
Now change your dosbox.conf:

1fullfixed=true
2fullwidth=whatever you want
3fullheight=whatever you want
4output=anything but surface

Now there's no more cinemascope;-)

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