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Graphic issue on Pinbal Fantasies

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First post, by wpansani

Posted on 2025-11-20, 00:39

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Hi all!

I bought a laptop Toshiba 1800 S254 (P3 1ghz - 65mb RAM - Trident Cyber 8820 video card) and it is running Windows 98.

I'm running pinball fantasies in DOS mode, but I'm having some graphic issues at the bottom of the screen.

On screen 1 file, you can see the graphic glitch at the bottom, but I noticed that the video is cutting at same point on screen 2 and screen 3 files (but with no glitch).

I tryed other games like Bio Menace, Commander Keen and Lost Vikings and I don't have graphics issues.

Do you know what can I do to solve this?

Reply 1 of 4, by wpansani

Posted on 2025-11-20, 19:07

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I found the problem, but I don't know how to solve.

If I press FN+F5, the screen "refresh" and all at the bottom is showing. I searched and this function is to swap between the LCD and external monitor.

I'm searching now how to do this on DOS.

Reply 2 of 4, by Azarien

Posted on 2025-11-20, 20:37

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Pinball Fantasies uses a weird resolution that your laptop may not support correctly. The garbage at the bottom is probably a part of video memory that is not supposed to be displayed in this mode (instead, the game should be stretched to fill the whole screen).

Reply 3 of 4, by wpansani

Posted on 2025-11-20, 23:37

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Azarien wrote on 2025-11-20, 20:37:

Pinball Fantasies uses a weird resolution that your laptop may not support correctly. The garbage at the bottom is probably a part of video memory that is not supposed to be displayed in this mode (instead, the game should be stretched to fill the whole screen).

I Agree with you, I found that the problem is with PF resolution, both 320x240 and 320x350 aren't nativally supported by the LCD screen.

ChatGPT show me some apps from Toshiba that I can try to fix this:

- TSETLCD.EXE
- TDISP.EXE
- FNCYCL.EXE
- HWSET.EXE
- TOSLCD.EXE

But I didn't find them (yet) to download.

I tried univbe, but I received a message that my vga isn't supported.

Reply 4 of 4, by elszgensa

Posted on Yesterday, 11:43

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wpansani wrote on 2025-11-20, 23:37:
ChatGPT output the names of some apps supposedly from Toshiba: […]
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ChatGPT output the names of some apps supposedly from Toshiba:

- TSETLCD.EXE
- TDISP.EXE
- FNCYCL.EXE
- HWSET.EXE
- TOSLCD.EXE

But I haven't verified whether they are real or hallucinated.

FTFY

Don't just blindly trust a clanker. Always double check whether the reality they're describing matches ours.

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