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"dudley" <dudl...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Dear All,
> - Anyone know how to stretch display size for fixed-resolution games?
> - I want to play Westwood/EA Command and Conquer and Microprose Transport
> Tycoon on my Sony Vaio laptop but the display sizes are fixed to 640 x
480.
> This makes the display too small to see the detail and I would like to
> stretch it to fill the whole screen without changing the resolution.  I
use
> an 1024x768 LCD screen with a desktop which doesn't have the same problem.
> - I am usin a Sony Vaio QR10 laptop, which reports the display adapter as
an
> Intel 82815 Graphics Controller and the screen as Default Monitor.  Some
> additional memory installed to 64+256MB but no other variations to the
> system as supplied and installed.
> - Know of any patches or tweaks that can stretch the display resolution to
> fill the whole screen?
> - All help and advice welcome.  Please reply through newsgroup post.
> Thank you.
>
I think you'll find you're stuffed. AFAIK no DOS graphics adaptor was never
designed to run bigger than 640 * 480.
Westwood got round this by rereleasing C&C as C&C Gold with all the screen
interface commands tweaked to match W!ndows APIs. You want to play C&C
bigger than 640 * 480 - get C&C Gold. Get me a copy while you're there cos I
so want to revisit it.
As for the other game. No idea. Sorry. But then I am a mainframe software
engineer and don't dabble in Mickey Mouse stuff like W!ndows. So don't be
surprised if I don't know what I am talking about and get flamed.
;o)