It worked, finally! geez, this shouldn't have to be so hard. But you're right, top and bottom borders still appear in text mode and so I assumed they would appear in games as well. Thanks!

Set fullresolution=1024x768 and then set your graphics card / display to stretch that to full width. OMG, that actually made a difference! Now the image gets stretched horizontally, just as I wanted to. But... now I have black borders on top and bottom :/ Tried 800x600 and I also get black borders …

It's amusing that, in the two new threads today, one person used his first post here to ask for help in stretching 4:3 to 16:9 and the other person used his first post here to ask for help in preventing stretching 4:3 to 16:9. It was me asking to stretch to 16:9... Makes me just wish there was a …

1. Tried 1360x768, didn't work 2. Tried these settings, didn't work, got slower: fullresolution=desktop windowresolution=original output=overlay 3. Tried ddraw, didn't work, got slower 4. Tried opengl, didn't work 5. Tried surface, didn't work, resolution got really small 6. Using other builds... …

I’ve tried EVERYTHING and I still can’t for the life of me set DOSBox to be full screen and stretched to my native resolution (1366x768) without having vertical black bars on the left and on the right. I don’t have black bars on the top or on the bottom, so I guess it’s running internally on …