First post, by ChilledMonkeyBrains
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Newbie
Why does DOSBox display in widescreen format on my 4:3 ratio monitor? Is there anything I can do to fix this?
Reply 1 of 2, by ripa
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Oldbie
Yes, set aspect=true in dosbox's configuration file.
It shows up as widescreen because the game you're playing uses 320x200 or some other non-square pixel video mode. Without aspect=true, dosbox doesn't compensate for this, which is fine if you use fullscreen=original, which lets the display handle it, but if you use fullresolution=1024x768 for example, then the game is scaled to 1024x600 and black bars are added to pad it to 1024x768.
Reply 2 of 2, by ChilledMonkeyBrains
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Newbie
Yeah I tried that after I posted this; worked too!
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guess I shoulda tried that before