You probably want to look at an option called Scaler.

I am unsure of the status of D-Fend. You might be better of using DBGL or DOG. Or drop the frontends and learn to run DOSBox directly. Check my signature for quick guide. Once you get the game to at least run manually, you can start learning how to configure DOSBox directly.

Also be sure you're using dosbox 0.70.

Thank you for your advice, which I will follow. I do not know the meaning of the acceptable values for Scaler in the dosbox config file. Which value or values do you suggest I try? Also, if I turn on fullscreen, will it recognize the Scaler value I have chosen, or does fullscreen take its own complete set of defaults?

Harry

Fullscreen mode disables the scalers.

Try scaler=normal3x

Note: Scalers only kick in when the game is running, and then it is not for all games.

If the scalers doesn't work, try changing windowresolution=.....x...... in combination with different output=......

Changing the value of scaler to normal3x made no difference at all in either the size of the window or the size of the text. I'm beginning to think there's something hard-coded in the game itself that I can't lick. But your quick guide to getting started in DOSBox is excellent, and I am certainly learning something about how to use it.

Can you suggest a few combinations of values for windowresolution and output that I might try before giving up? Sorry to be slow, but I don't even know the meaning of the allowable values for the output parameter. As things stand, the game's window occupies about a quarter of the screen size.

Thanks again,

Harry

Try

windowresolution=800x600
output=overlay

Minimax,

You are a wizard and a true star! When I changed the two parameters as you suggested, the game's window increased in size and the text size increased proportionately. I then took a larger pair of (windowresolution) numbers that are one of D-Fend's choices (1024x768), and the games window grew to three-quarters of the screen size. That's perfectly adequate and easy to read. (Incidentally, I think there may be a bug in D-Fend or maybe an incompatibility with the current version of DOSBox. The results weren't as good when I made those choices via D-Fend. I'm using native DOSBox with an edited config file, as you recommended.)

Thanks again for your generous help. By the way, does anyone ever think about trying to emulate Win '95 or Win '98 well enough for gaming, or is that a pipe dream?

Regards,
Harry

Windows 3.1 is running fine on DOSBox I think. I am not sure about Windows 95, but I think some adventurous people have it running already. I might be wrong though.

Windows 95 crashes a lot if you use 32bit-stuff.

and you can't use more than 16 colors unless you use vasyl's video card patch and use Tseng.

With Windows 95 some dosbox "hardware" doesn't work correctly. Last time I tried there was something wrong with the soundblaster device and joystick was not working at all. And changing drivers often resulted in problems, too 😀

Soundblaster and joystick are ok in 0.70 (timed=true)

ah, nice to know. Thanks.