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First post, by Paolo_R

Posted on 2018-02-26, 23:41

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I'm running DOSBox on a Windows7 laptop. The DOSBox window takes up about 1/3 of the screen. Is there anyway I can increase the DOSBox window to fill the W7 screen? I'm not interested in increasing screen resolution - just the physical size of the DOSBox window (with the fonts looking larger as a result.)

I've tried the various combinations shown in the .conf file but the DOSBox windows stays stubbornly at its 1/3 size.

Thanks
Paul

Reply 1 of 9, by collector

Posted on 2018-02-27, 02:09

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In the conf:

[sdl]
fullscreen=true

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Reply 2 of 9, by Paolo_R

Posted on 2018-02-27, 02:23

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I'm afraid this has no effect. I've tried fullscreen and also full resolution, window resolution. I've also tried scaler=normalx2 and scaled.

Reply 3 of 9, by Qbix

Posted on 2018-02-27, 11:03

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did you read the comments at the top of the options file ? (with regards to the output option ?)
Maybe changing that will help you out

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Reply 4 of 9, by RobertJ

Posted on 2018-02-27, 19:53

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This is how I got a larger window:

fullscreen=false
fulldouble=false
fullresolution=1920x1200
windowresolution=1024x768
output=ddraw
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
priority=higher,normal
mapperfile=mapper-0.74.map
usescancodes=true

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Reply 5 of 9, by Paolo_R

Posted on 2018-02-28, 01:37

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Qbix wrote:
did you read the comments at the top of the options file ? (with regards to the output option ?)
Maybe changing that will help you out

Yes,I certainly did.

Reply 6 of 9, by Paolo_R

Posted on 2018-02-28, 01:42

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Thanks.

RobertJ wrote:
This is how I got a larger window: […]
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This is how I got a larger window:

fullscreen=false
fulldouble=false
fullresolution=1920x1200
windowresolution=1024x768
output=ddraw
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
priority=higher,normal
mapperfile=mapper-0.74.map
usescancodes=true

Is mapper-0.74.map your own mapper file? I don't appear to have a mapper.txt file (which appears to be the default.) Anyway, apart from the mapperfile entry, there is no change to the window size.

Paul

Reply 7 of 9, by konc

Posted on 2018-02-28, 12:39

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Just a stupid idea, but are you sure you're editing the correct .conf file? Add something dummy in the [auotoexec] block for example to make sure it's the one used

Reply 8 of 9, by Paolo_R

Posted on 2018-02-28, 22:12

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Konc

I've only got one .conf file on my PC in my c:\users\paul\appdata\local\dosbox folder.

Reply 9 of 9, by Paolo_R

Posted on 2018-03-01, 01:43

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I've realised I have made an error - assuming that anything after # was a comment I had stuff like

windowresolution=1024x768 #600x400

so DOSBox was not accepting the window resolution parameter as a valid entry. It's fixed now - thanks to all who offered solutions.

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