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First post, by Serious Callers Only

Posted on 2012-12-09, 00:39

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Hi. Trying to make indiana jones desktop adventures (windowed game) run 'full screen' or as near as possible. Thought up the idea of installing win 3.1 in dosbox, and running them there.

It's almost right, except the game window is actually smaller than the smallest resolution of the S3 driver, but still requires 256 colors.
I think it might by HQVGA (240×160) or thereabouts.

Know of anydriver that still supports 256 colors but still allows ridiculous small resolutions?

Reply 1 of 6, by DosFreak

Posted on 2012-12-09, 14:08

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Only OS I have tested that game with is Windows 2000 Pro where it worked fine so it should work fine in any 32bit Windows OS. Might be wonky with Vista+ tho since WoW for 16bit Windows programs on Windows operating systems starting with Vista usually are.

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Reply 2 of 6, by VileR

Posted on 2012-12-09, 16:17

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Serious Callers Only wrote:
I think it might by HQVGA (240×160) or thereabouts.

For what it's worth, the screenshots at MobyGames show the whole window at 509x352, so something like 640x400 should suffice (better yet, 512x384?)

http://www.mobygames.com/game/win3x/indiana-j … res/screenshots

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Reply 3 of 6, by leileilol

Posted on 2012-12-10, 00:52

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In 1998 I used to intentionally crash Quake2 to reach desktop resolutions of 320x240, 400x300 and 512x384. Forgot how I did it (mismatched gamex86's will cause something though)

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Reply 4 of 6, by Joey_sw

Posted on 2012-12-10, 02:11

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resolution changing by deliberate crashing game works up to winXP (never tried that on win7 though),
but would it actually works on win3.x ?

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Reply 5 of 6, by leileilol

Posted on 2012-12-10, 02:17

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It wouldn't, since Win3.x locked individual resolutions to drivers. I've only seen a couple games that can force Win3.1 into 320x200x8 (Games Factory, Fury3)

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Reply 6 of 6, by Jorpho

Posted on 2012-12-10, 20:30

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leileilol wrote:
In 1998 I used to intentionally crash Quake2 to reach desktop resolutions of 320x240, 400x300 and 512x384. Forgot how I did it (mismatched gamex86's will cause something though)

http://toastytech.com/guis/misc2.html documents that as well.

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