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Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares/Installation (edit)
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MOO II under DOSBox behaves like a normal Windows program - for example you can task-switch (ALT-TAB) out of and into it. | MOO II under DOSBox behaves like a normal Windows program - for example you can task-switch (ALT-TAB) out of and into it. | ||
==Widescreen issues== | |||
MOO II was written to run on the traditional monitors with a 4:3 aspect ratio, i.e. the screen's width is 1.33 times its height. Wider screens with an aspect ratio of 16:10 (width = 1.6 times height) are now becoming more popular, but it's not so easy to get MOO II to display nicely on these. | |||
The following assumes you're running MOO II via DOSBox. | |||
Ideally one would like a full-screen display (no Windows chrome such as title bar) but with the active area having the correct, i.e. old, 4:3 aspect ratio. Unfortunately this does not seem possible at the moment, and the main options appear to be: | |||
* Fullscreen. This stretches each MOO II screen to a 16:10 aspect ratio. Besides looking ugly because everything looks coarse, it can be misleading as distorts the Galaxy map so that distances which the game regards as equal look longer in the East-West direction thna in the North-South direction. | |||
* Run MOO II in a DOSBox window. In this case you must specify a window resolution where the ''vertical'' size is less than the vertical size of your monitor's resolution, otherwise part of the game's main screen may not be visible. For example if your monitor is the popular 1440x900 size, the largest usable window size may be 1024x786. The result is that the MOO II main screen occpuies slightly less screen area than it would have done in fullscreen mode on a 4:3 monityor, although the clearer image presented by the new monitors compensates for this. | |||
== Technical support == | == Technical support == | ||