Is there a user-friendly program that does the same thing as DOSBox? Or should I just take a clunky old 400mhz 'puter and load it with DOS 6.22 and be done with it?
I’d be interested in finding the answer, too. I love using ZSNES to play old SNES games, but with my 1280x1024 resolution, the game shows up so small that I have to squint to play it.
Check to see if you can ALT + Enter while you have ZSNES open to make use of a full-screen, scaled viewing window.
Oh, I do. But there will still be a 2-inch black border around the game screen.
There’s probably a resolution option under Zsnes.
You can look into VDMSound. It isn’t nearly as robust as DOSBox, but it works quite well for older games like those from Lucasarts.
Really though, DOSBox isn’t that hard to figure out, and works quite well. Here is the first link I found by searching for “dosbox gui” but I haven’t tried it.
Try this front end program. Defend Reloaded.
Ooh neat! I think that may be just the thingie.
Man, if you don’t like DOSBox…
write your own ;D
…DOSBOX does everything I want it to.
First, are you using the program named DOSBox or are you using the DOS box built-in to Windows? Because the one built in to Windows does indeed suck and blow things banned by international convention. If you’re using the standalone program, try DOSEMU, which is what I usually use.
If you don’t like ZSNES, try SNES9x. I don’t know why the black border would appear with the right settings in ZSNES.
The black border appears because the highest resolution I can set in ZSNES is 800x600. On my old WinXP computer, the game screen took up the whole monitor screen… not sure why I can’t do it with Vista.
Do you have an LCD monitor? A CRT can scale up or down to different resolutions just fine, but that’s much harder to do with an LCD. They don’t like being at something other than their native resolution.
You could have it blow a ferret, but I’m not sure that would improve matters.
When I saw this, the title of the thread right below was “Making the best of a pet civet”.
Nope, CRT monitor.
Is there some resolution setting in DOSBox I can change?
Open up the dosbox.conf file in notepad, and you’ll see this line towards the top:
fullscreen=false
Change the false to true and it will run full-screened. Below that line is this line:
fullresolution=original
that will let you change the resolution. Just set it to whatever your screen’s resolution is, ie 1280x1024. So it would look like this:
fullscreen=true
fulldouble=false
fullresolution=1280x1024
Make sure to save a backup copy before you make changes just in case.
Thanks, bouv! I’ll give it a shot when I get home. 
nm
I use DOSShell.