Software scaling for retro games?

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Hey guys!

My HDTV won't accept resolutions below 800x600 properly. This makes playing my retro classics on it very tricky. Thankfully ScummVM includes scaling software that allows me to play the old graphic adventure games of Lucasarts and co. But there are many others I wish to play now and in the future which it will not cater for.

I am aware of DOS Box but it's far too fiddly for my liking.

The game in particular I want to play atm is X-Com: Terror From The Deep.

Is there a simple way to play the games I want to on my set?
 
Duouk2000 said:
I used D-Fend for a while a year or two back, it's very easy to use.
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Thanks for suggestion again! :D

I seem to be a baffoon though as I can't get my game to run in this programme! :eek:

The problem could be that the version of the game I use is a Windows 95 one?
 
CrowK said:
I play UFO: Enemy Unknown (TFTD is the sequel) through DOS box. Make sure you get the latest version and use the dynamic CPU scaling option. Despite being 320x200 scaled to 1280x1024 it doesn't look bad. It doesn't look good either mind...;) but it's better than the vanila gfx.

You may have to fiddle around with the CPU cycles to get the right frame rate, but with the dynamic option on I just turned it up to 90000 cycles and it's smooth as milk.
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I think I have the latest version of DOS Box but I don't know how to run the gaem with it. I think it's DOS compatible but my version is a Windows 95 edition.
 
It's modified though so that it runs with all the proper effects, at perfect speed, has the latest patch as well as an unofficial one that fixes other bugs. Couldn't trade all those off to play the DOS version.

Surely someone somewhere has made a simple scaling programme?
 
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