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These games were not made in widescreen however if you play them on a widescreen monitor it will stretch them to fill the screen. If you want the game to look how it originally did and not stretched there is a way to achieve this however it can't be done with the GOG graphics mode setup because one of the things that needs to be changed can not be changed to what you need it to. First you gotta find the dosbox conf file for the game in it's folder. As an example for Eye of the Beholder the conf file is named "dosbox_eob1". After opening the conf file with notepad or wordpad you need to make the following changes.

Look for the [sdl] section
Use fullscreen=true for full screen
Use fullscreen=false for DOSBox in a window
Change fullresolution=original to fullresolution=desktop
When using a window, change windowresolution=original to windowresolution=1280x1024 (or use 1024x768 for a smaller window)
Change output=surface to output=openglnb (uses graphics hardware and maintains crisp image with scaling). You might try output=ddraw if your hardware doesn't support OpenGL. In some cases ddraw also has a lower CPU load.
Scroll down to the [render] section
Change aspect=false to aspect=true (maintains 4:3 aspect ratio, otherwise keep on false if you like the aspect ratio of your screen, mostly 16:9 or 16:10 nowadays)
Save the configuration file with CTRL+S (or File - Save)

The most important thing here is the fullresolution=desktop part. You can not pick this option in the graphics setup tool.
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OzzieArcane: These games were not made in widescreen however if you play them on a widescreen monitor it will stretch them to fill the screen. If you want the game to look how it originally did and not stretched there is a way to achieve this however it can't be done with the GOG graphics mode setup because one of the things that needs to be changed can not be changed to what you need it to. First you gotta find the dosbox conf file for the game in it's folder. As an example for Eye of the Beholder the conf file is named "dosbox_eob1". After opening the conf file with notepad or wordpad you need to make the following changes.

Look for the [sdl] section
Use fullscreen=true for full screen
Use fullscreen=false for DOSBox in a window
Change fullresolution=original to fullresolution=desktop
When using a window, change windowresolution=original to windowresolution=1280x1024 (or use 1024x768 for a smaller window)
Change output=surface to output=openglnb (uses graphics hardware and maintains crisp image with scaling). You might try output=ddraw if your hardware doesn't support OpenGL. In some cases ddraw also has a lower CPU load.
Scroll down to the [render] section
Change aspect=false to aspect=true (maintains 4:3 aspect ratio, otherwise keep on false if you like the aspect ratio of your screen, mostly 16:9 or 16:10 nowadays)
Save the configuration file with CTRL+S (or File - Save)

The most important thing here is the fullresolution=desktop part. You can not pick this option in the graphics setup tool.
If you don't want to manually edit the .conf file, you can also run the DOSBox Configure tool GOG provides with every DOSBox game. The second tab has options for keeping the aspect ratio, enabling double buffering and selecting the filter type. =)

Flynn
Choosing to keep the aspect ratio in the tool doesn't work for me. Only manually modifying the conf file worked.
Just change the scaling in your graphics driver control panel.
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OzzieArcane: Choosing to keep the aspect ratio in the tool doesn't work for me. Only manually modifying the conf file worked.
The new installers don't include the .conf-files anymore so it seems I'm stuck with ugly stretching of the fine pixel-art of Westwood :-/