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Forcing dos games to stay native or fixed aspect

post #1 of 7
5/6/05 at 11:49am
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Hi,

I have a few dos games that I love that run well on my i9300 but I cant get them to either behave as I set in the Bios or as I have set in the 6800 control panel as far as widescreen goes. Masters of Orion2, Advanced Civ, and RR Tycoon I. Anyone found a way to get these to run in a fixed aspect or in their original resolution. Prefer the former since RRTycoon will be very small..

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Artuk
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post #2 of 7
5/6/05 at 12:22pm
have you tried dosbox? it's really customizable. I remember using it to play Quest for Glory and managing to get it to the right aspect ratio.
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post #3 of 7
5/6/05 at 12:44pm
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I will give it a try. I used it for my PDA before, never had to for a "real" PC.

I love turned based games on my laptop, and some of the best ones are a decade or more old.

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Artuk
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post #4 of 7
5/6/05 at 12:45pm
Railroad (or did you mean Roller Coaster?) Tycoon 1 may not be playable on a widescreen computer.

Try looking up solutions here
http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/
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post #5 of 7
5/6/05 at 12:53pm
The number of 'recent' games that are on my top 10 list isn't so high. I just think games had better production value in the early to mid 90s... it wasn't a huge business as it is now (with EA basically flogging it's employees to produce as many games as possible). No, back then people actually cared about it....
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post #6 of 7
5/6/05 at 1:29pm
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Originally Posted by Mutt
Railroad (or did you mean Roller Coaster?) Tycoon 1 may not be playable on a widescreen computer.

Try looking up solutions here
http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/

RRT, of the ones I listed that was the only one I havent actually tested. My memory arrived and I am running memtest. No biggy if it doesnt. I have RRT3 already installed on the laptop although I do love the original.

Two good non-dos turn based strategy games that run excellent on the widescreen are civ 3 (I have conquests version) and Age of Wonder: Shadow Magic. AOW worked "as is" and civ 3 I had to add "keepres=1" to the ini file.

Just wish I could get the bottom scoller to scroll the civ 3 map horizontally the way the side scroller makes it move vertically.

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Artuk
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post #7 of 7
5/8/05 at 2:14am
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I tried dosbox. It works as far as fixing the aspect ratio, but performance is abysmal. I am going to keep looking for a non-emulated solution that just runs the dos games in a fixed aspect ration dislpay.

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Artuk
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