First post, by Fulgore
Hi guys, being my first post can I first say thanks and congrats to the DOSbox developers. They have done a very good job and may they continue to improve compatibility and features so hopefully every single DOS game that was made will run perfectly in DOSBox!
My main question is an issue with screen res for my 24" 16:10 Samsung 245B monitor. What I am trying to achieve is maximum screen usage without sacrificing aspect ratio. I don't mind pillarbars down the sides as long as the height on the screen screen is fully utilized. Now the best I have done is to use:
fullscreen=true
fullresolution=800x600 (If I go any lower it will just default to 1280x1024 and any higher just makes it smaller - perhaps because my monitor won't support lower resolutions?)
fulldouble=false
aspect ratio=true
scaler=normal2x (I just get a blank screen if I try to change this to 3x or something)
With these settings, playing Zeliard, Master of Magic, Cyberdogs etc is perfect, apart from the fact that there are black bars all around the game. It would be awesome if I could get the resolution lower or if DOSbox could zoom in a little to fill in the rest of the screen. It's certainly playable as it is, but it's annoying that I can't use my full screen.
On a minor note, I would also like to know why v0.63 works for Fifa94 and 0.72 doesn't? Shouldn't a later version improve compatibility? I'm also a little confused as to why DOSbox has 3144 games in the database and why 0.70 support 871 games and why 0.72 only supports 397 games)
REF: http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?letter=a
FYI I'm using Windows XP SP3 with a Intel Q9450 Processor, 4GB DDR2 800 RAM and an nVidia 8800 GT.