Wide display: Can I letterbox full-screen?

[Chronos]

I recently got a new monitor, and it’s a widescreen. When I play old full-screen games, it sets the resolution to 800x600 or whatever, and stretches the image to fill the whole width of the screen. Since the games were designed for a 4:3 aspect ratio, this looks really ugly. I’d prefer instead to have the game running in a 4:3 ratio box in the middle, with black stripes on either side. Is there any way to do this?

The monitor is a ViewSonic VA2223wm, and the computer is a Mac G4 running OSX 10.4

[Gorsnak]

@Chronos

I recently got a new monitor, and it’s a widescreen. When I play old full-screen games, it sets the resolution to 800x600 or whatever, and stretches the image to fill the whole width of the screen. Since the games were designed for a 4:3 aspect ratio, this looks really ugly. I’d prefer instead to have the game running in a 4:3 ratio box in the middle, with black stripes on either side. Is there any way to do this?

The monitor is a ViewSonic VA2223wm, and the computer is a Mac G4 running OSX 10.4

According to the manual for the VA2223 available online (and which I’m sure was included in your purchase ;)), there’s an aspect ratio function under the Manual Image Adjust option in the monitor’s menu. Not sure if that’ll give you exactly what you’re after or not.

[Chronos]

Ah, OK, that’s grayed out when at normal resolution, but it works when running at low resolution. Thanks!

(and yes, I probably was being lazy when I posted this thread)