BTW the way the games handle this is the right way. They give the PC a 4:3 fullscreen image and the graphics driver changes it to 16:9 (16:10) because this is the default option set in the driver. If you don't like it that way you should complain to ATI and Nvidea for making it the default.

Mighty fine necrovision there.

With a necro of this magnitude, I half expect GeoCities to come back to life :-D

Nice. Those early posts were quite the amusing read. Ah, I love people's ignorance/stupidity sometimes.

Indeed. It's as simple as a few mouse clicks.

For mac/linux people using wine we already have virtual desktop windows. Clearly all you Windows people should switch <shifty eyes>

My 1080p (16:9) monitor has an "aspect correct" option which shows common 4:3 and 16:10 resolutions with black bars on the sides. Unfortunately it does not do this for less common resolutions (960x720, 1152x864, 1440x1080) or even the 16:9 resolution 1600x900 for some reason. Have to use drivers for that, and the crappy intel drivers on the laptop I currently have hooked up to the monitor are not good for that.


But anybody with an NVIDIA or ATI card should be able to use the drivers to provide the monitor with a native image of the correct aspect ratio.

There you go.

"What we were facing, you see, was the wholesale destruction of the still-rare combination of words digital heritage..."

Pfft. Yeaaah, I bet less than 1% was worth saving.

Oh no... It lives! IT LIIIIIIVES!!!!!
As content, certainly. But as documentation of an era? Yes, I definitely think GeoCities was worth saving. Even if I personally get nervous twitches around the eyes from even thinking about it.

Digital archaeology is going to be difficult in the future, but no less important for all that. So much of our culture is purely digital these days, and while much of it is preserved more or less automatically, a lot of it isn't, and is in real danger of simply disappearing.

well there is a search function

It says "Search" , not "bring back to life" ;-)

True, but if you had the power to bring back to life, wouldn't you use it?

Some forums tell you that the subject is too old, but really, I see no reason not to revive an old thread if the alternative is to post the same message as new.

see you get it

Wow. Very old thread.

The request is still valid though. However, nothing really has changed since this thread has been buried: Having Windowed mode would be nice, and is easy to achieve on one group of games (DOSBox), but the technology isn't quite there yet to provide a reliable method that works with the others.

DxWnd is currently in very active development, and looks very promising, but it's still in alphy and quite buggy. It's a great tool for tinkerers like me, but would currently confuse and annoy the hell out of the "I just want it to work" crowd. D3DWindower seems discontinued though.