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Hi,

Moo2 on GoG has two black strips on the side.

Played this years ago and remember it being full screen.

Tried Alt+Enter but it goes dark and becomes a smaller windows window of the game.

Dosbox configure is on:

Windows resolution: original

Scaling engine: Normal 2 x

Graphic mode: overlay

Full screen: tick

Grateful for any help.
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Ahmed1y: Hi,

Moo2 on GoG has two black strips on the side.

Played this years ago and remember it being full screen.
Sounds to me like it works as intended. The original screen aspect is 4:3. I can't think of a single DOS game that supports widescreen. That wasn't a thing in the '90s. Unless you prefer ugly stretched imagery, I propose you stick with the proper format.
Fun fact: it took me five minutes to realise this is about Master of Orion 2 and not some cow simulator sequel.
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Breja: Fun fact: it took me five minutes to realise this is about Master of Orion 2 and not some cow simulator sequel.
That is funny. Oh, the confusion it would bring the forums if such a game would come here!
"I'm having problem finding the Milky Way in MOO2"
ALT + ENTER
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Tarm: ALT + ENTER
So you didn't even read the post?

Anyway, yes, as has been said before, it doesn't support widescreen, so as long as you don't want it to be stretched, you'll have to live with the black bars.
Yeah I know others already answered, but just so that you fully understand what you are asking:
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Ahmed1y: Moo2 on GoG has two black strips on the side.

Played this years ago and remember it being full screen.
Were you playing it back then on the same monitor, or at least another widescreen monitor?

The game was originally designed for 4:3 aspect ratio monitors, but nowadays you are trying to play it on 16:9 widescreen monitors (or similar). Those black bars on the sides are there to fill the empty space because you are playing it on a too wide monitor. Now you are seeing the game correctly, in a 4:3 aspect ratio.

Now, if you really want the MOO2 image to fill the whole widescreen monitor area, that means the game image will be stretched vertically, meaning everything would look squashed (characters would look fatter than originally intended, round objects would looks like ovals. etc.).

If that is really what you want, a vertically stretched picture, then it may be there may be an option in e.g. your graphics card driver settings to not to keep the correct aspect ratio.
Post edited September 23, 2017 by timppu
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Tarm: ALT + ENTER
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Pherim: So you didn't even read the post?

Anyway, yes, as has been said before, it doesn't support widescreen, so as long as you don't want it to be stretched, you'll have to live with the black bars.
True. I just thought i'd sprinkle some spread hand keyboard thoughts. For what it's worth.