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windows size - yes another one

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First post, by rogertu

Posted on 2008-02-18, 06:47

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I have searched thru the posts and understand that you need to alter windowresolution=original
output=surface

to say 600*480 and ddraw respectively. I then see in the posts the original poster says "yeah - works great thanks"
Well it is not making any difference for me. Am i looking at the wrong thing.
I have a plain DOS program (not a game) that runs in text mode (80*25)
and the window is very small. Can I make it any bigger ???
I have tried the above on 3 different machines (both XP & Linux) with varying video cards (ATI & NVIDIA).

Tanking you in advance

Reply 1 of 7, by wd

Posted on 2008-02-18, 08:05

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textmode (vga in dosbox) is 640x400

Reply 2 of 7, by ADDiCT

Posted on 2008-02-18, 08:12

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Try "output=ddraw" on windows. It's scaling text screens on my system ("windowresolution=800x600").

Reply 3 of 7, by rogertu

Posted on 2008-02-18, 20:30

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That is what I have done and it does not work on any of mine ????????

Reply 4 of 7, by MiniMax

Posted on 2008-02-18, 20:49

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So... You have tried output=surface and ddraw. Means there are 4-5 others to try.

Reply 5 of 7, by rogertu

Posted on 2008-02-20, 07:18

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Yeah.. I hav tried all possible combinations in both XP and Linux and still the window stays the same size. Dosemu will adjust the window size depending on what font it uses. Is it maybe something to do with that ????

Reply 6 of 7, by MiniMax

Posted on 2008-02-20, 10:19

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You wrote "600*480". It must be with an 'x', not a '*'. So try

windowsresolution=600x480

Reply 7 of 7, by rogertu

Posted on 2008-02-21, 05:00

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Bingo...Thats what I was after
Thank you very much for your patience

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