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Re: x-com monitor problem

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From: Chris dale
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:41
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I'm still playing Terror From The Deep and UFO Enemy Unknown in Win XP Pro
SP1 with the XP Patches I found online and not in DosBox or anything like
that.

The first time I played the game I had to use the monitor button controls on
the front of my 17" Iiyama Vision Master Pro CRT to reduce the screen size
to fit as the game runs in a 'DOS mode' under XP. The buttons on the front
of my monitor access the menu controls for image adjustment such as 'move
horizontal/vertical left/right/up/down' and also 'resize image' so it was
easy to shrink the image to fit on screen.

The X-Com games are brill and I'll be trying to get Apocalypse running under
XP soon. I understand from the forum topics that this definitely needs
DosBox to run it properly.

"TypewriterJason" <jmehmel@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1161630621.440311.40840@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> I'm not sure if this is still active or just full of spam, but if there
> are any fans of x-com the great... let me know if you've experienced
> this problem...
>
> The image continues off the monitor to the right and bottom, and I
> can't resize my screen to fix. I'm running Win98, 800 mghz. Is it a
> monitor problem, or is it software?
>
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