toshiba360: for some games like Broken Sword its more of a perfect square
In that particular case, there may be some degree of vertical distortion.
However, with these older games, it's normal to have borders on the sides if they're played on modern machines, since they predate widescreen monitors and thus were largely made with a 4:3 aspect ratio.
There is a way to prevent games from falling into the "windowbox" format shown in the second image: Turn on the "Keep aspect ratio" option in the Dosbox Configurator program, which will eliminate the horizontal bars on top of and below the game.
toshiba360: I would say. i could understand for some of the older games (dos) but for say Morrowind and Fahrenheit i should work. tried to change all the res. option but it still stays a box.
Unfortunately, widescreen resolutions in games didn't become common until several years after those were released.
