DOSBOX emulates graphic card (CGA/EGA/VGA), recently two low. res. VESA modes were added, but in any case you will not get bigger resolution than VGA (640*480).

Mirek

Generally 800x600 is the main big one that alot of games use.

ok cool i can just about get it going at 640x480, I suppose i was just looking for something more, ah well cheers guys

icemann wrote:

Generally 800x600 is the main big one that alot of games use.

*blink* Dude, back away from the drugs. There is almost NOTHING in DOS that uses a resolution above 640x480.

nah there are two dos progs i want to use on linux both support 1024x768x24

they are deluxe paint 4 and bcad 2.2
I might give dosemu a go

Our support for high resolutions is a bit poor as games never use it as it too slow for a game to keep such a screen updated.

I't just a matter of adding the right svga modes to the table i think.

Ok cool, where is this table.
I have searched the config files there seems to be nothing about screen modes in there, if it is actually really obvious im sorry for being really dumb.

I don't think you can add it. I was thinking more into myself.

It's in the tables in the source of dosbox.

So you can't find it in a configfile.

Yes, majority of games use 640x480, but there are others that probably need different mode. For example, I´ve written here about Ark of Time and more games could have a similar problem. This game reports "vesa not supported" in the latest CVS of DOSBox and also in VirtualPC (I thing that emulated graphic card is in both cases S3 Trio). Unfortunately I don´t know a way how to find out which VESA mode is needed by a particular game so it is uncertain if the problem is caused by missing mode. But I would appreciate if as many VESA modes as possible were added to DOSBox.

With the dos version of quake I remember the modes being alot higher even than 1024x768 :p.