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DOSBox in fullscreen

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First post, by ChilledMonkeyBrains

Posted on 2009-02-09, 05:09

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Why does DOSBox display in widescreen format on my 4:3 ratio monitor? Is there anything I can do to fix this?

Reply 1 of 2, by ripa

Posted on 2009-02-09, 07:04

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Yes, set aspect=true in dosbox's configuration file.

It shows up as widescreen because the game you're playing uses 320x200 or some other non-square pixel video mode. Without aspect=true, dosbox doesn't compensate for this, which is fine if you use fullscreen=original, which lets the display handle it, but if you use fullresolution=1024x768 for example, then the game is scaled to 1024x600 and black bars are added to pad it to 1024x768.

Reply 2 of 2, by ChilledMonkeyBrains

Posted on 2009-02-09, 17:11

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Yeah I tried that after I posted this; worked too!

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guess I shoulda tried that before

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