Re: Viewing games full size on screen

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Check the BIOS on your DELL laptop for option to "stretch to fit screen" or
change the resolution of the game application. Resolutions are fixed on LCD
displays and I suspect the application is running in a mode like 640x480 or
800x600 and the native resolution on your laptop is higher 1200x1024 or
something similar.

In order to avoid the "corner of the screen" or "small window" effect a lot
of laptops have the option to stretch the image to fit the display.


"Barbara" <Barbara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:82AB6F49-077C-4F1F-B033-F0F05C5259BA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I recently bought 2 games on floppies and installed them on my notebook,
>Dell
> Inspiron 8100 but they only fill a quarter of the screen. On my husband's
> notebook, Toshiba SA40, they fill the screen. My resolution is set at
> maximum and the game options don't allow any more expansion. Can I fix
> this?


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