The graphics (especially the text) can be a bit hard on the eyes in TH.

Unfortunately the "Graphic Mode Setup Tool" doesn't give you some of the most important options. So here's what you wanna do:

- Go to your installation directory and open dosboxTH.conf in a text editor.
- Find the fullresolution=... line and set it to: fullresolution=original
- Find the output=... line and set it to output=surface
- Find the scaler=... line and set it to scaler=hq2x
- Play the game.

You can choose a different scaler. hq2x is just my personal favourite. It provides nicely smoothed out text without too much blurr.

A similar effect can be had on Mac by pointing to the top of the screen to the menu bar and selecting View > Rendering Style > Smoove. Retro is also fun :)

You may need to CMD+Click if you're missing the mouse cursor.

This seems to be automatically saved between loads as well.

thanks for the advice, but it seems to me it doesn't make much sense.
When I follow your instructions the game screeny is tiny in the middle of a big black screen.
"Output=surface" doesn't support scaling, so I'm wondering why you are even telling us to select a scaler, when surface doesn't support scaling and everything is tiny.

Could give further instructions, maybe I misunderstood you?

hatman im sorry you are correct. Output surface doesn't support hardware scalling, but software scalling using hq2x or normal2x or whatever should be fine.

My screen is to small for these scallers to work that's why i didn't notice no effect.

Gotta buy a bigger screen. thanks for the tip!

I usually use hq2x for anything higher than 720p and it's not that demanding and it looks great. It causes a minor visual difference at smaller screens but most people won't notice it, unless you are a guy that plays everything at max settings in a 1440p monitor, 2 GTX Titans with 8XMSAA, 110+ FOV's and ridiculous sweetFX dlls that makes everything look like it came from an photoshop newbie.

Also, there are tons of great monitors or even 1080p HDTV's that should be cheap now (I use an LG 42" 3DTV that wasn't that expensive) or you could go for a 1440x900 or 1680x1050 monitor which are still pretty sweet.