As most DOS games are made for screens with a resolution of 320x240 pixels, DOSBox needs to scale the image. With default settings, DOSBox in full screen looks blurry or fuzzy and squashed in case of wide screens.

2018年10月2日 · Graphics modes range from monochrome at 640x200 (which is worse than the Hercules card) to 16 colors at 160x200 in composite mode. However, for gaming, by far the most common mode was 4 colors at 320×200 pixels. While various hacks allowed substitution of one of the 16 colors above, there were only two official palettes for this mode:

2015年7月12日 · dosbox.conf is a configuration file that DOSBox can use globally and/or locally per game (and settings that are left out are taken from the global file). It contains various system settings and initialization values that define your emulated environment.

It's time to learn how to use DOSBox to play games with advanced graphics, and how to configure Windows 3.1 to play any game. We'll start by changing graphics modes, but first, a brief explanation of why we need to.

2021年2月24日 · On all versions of DOSBox, I get generally decent results with: output=opengl fullresolution=desktop aspect=true scaler=normal3x. But note that unless your monitor has a minimum vertical resolution of 1200, it is mathematically impossible to get both perfectly sharp pixels and correct aspect ratio with typical 320x200@4:3 games.

2013年8月30日 · Compared to today’s high-definition games, DOS games used low resolutions, so playing old games in DOSBox on a modern LCD monitor or HDTV is not an optimal experience without some configuration. The dosbox.conf file controls how DOSBox displays old games and software. These settings can be changed by opening the DOSBox Options from the Start menu.

2018年10月2日 · The rendering (drawing) section controls methods that DOSBox uses to improve the speed and quality of the graphics displayed on the screen. E.g. it can "forget" (skip) the every 3rd screen update (which will save time), or it can try to smooth out some of the coarse low-resolution graphics that was used on old displays, but which looks bad when ...

DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices. Skip to content ... As mentioned, 320×200 graphics completely fill the screen on a 4:3 aspect ratio CRT—but that’s only possible if the pixels are not perfect squares but slightly tall rectangles.

By default, DOSBox emulates a SVGA graphics card. This is a good choice because SVGA graphics cards were backwards compatible with VGA, EGA, CGA and MDA graphics modes. Most were not compatible with non-IBM graphics standards, such as Hercules and the Tandy color graphics card.

DOSBox-X supports the emulation of a wide range of video adapters that were common in the DOS days. This document attempts to help the novice user, especially those that never experienced DOS PC’s during the 80’s and 90’s with selecting an appropriate video adapter for games and programs.