First post, by Shalom
I today purchased a widescreen monitor for the first time, to replace my aging 17" LCD. Problem is that now any full-screen DOS apps look horrible due to the stretching horizontally, and I can't figure out how to make the monitor (Acer X203H) do "pillar boxiing" in full screen mode. So, DosBOX 0.73 to the rescue; I put "fullscreen=1600x900" in the .conf file, and presto, the right aspect ratio shows up, with vertical black lines to the sides (who cares). To verify it's not stretching, I ran Matthew Versluys's "Tribute To Tetris", and the squares were square.
Now the problem. One of the greatest old-time graphic display programs was Display, written by Jih-Shin Ho, a Taiwanese comp-sci student; unfortunately he stopped developing this after version 1.90, having graduated in 1995, but it still does almost everything I want it to do (e.g. it can selectively negate either the brightness or the color of an image, which I haven't found any other program to do). It runs under XP, but it doesn't support any widescreen resolutions and it distorts all the pictures it displays. So I tried running it in DosBOX, the main screen comes up, and then nothing. Mouse doesn't move, it ignores the keyboard. Weirdest thing, though, is that there's an on-screen clock display, and that keeps running, so the program isn't actually hung, it's just ignoring keyboard input. You can alt-enter to fullscreen and back, and you can alt-tab to get to other windows, but you can't get it to *do* anything. No errors are coming up in the status window. I have tried output=surface, opengl, and ddraw (this last wouldn't run at all).
Requested data per sticky: 1) ASUS P5KPL-CM mainboard, 2) Intel core-duo @2.6GHz, 3) 4 Gb DDR2 Ram, 4) onboard video Intel G33/G31 (per control panel) with no video RAM (it uses the main RAM), 5) onboard sound, 6) WinFLP (i.e. XP lite). 7) Display 1.90t4. 8 ) Problem is described above. 9) reproducibility- happens every time. 10) sound mode is whatever the default is. 11) video mode is opengl, I tried surface and ddraw also.
Anybody else familiar with this antique program and how to get it to run?
Thanks,
Shalom
