trying to get fullscreen in super old dos games
trying to get fullscreen in super old dos games
You guys are so advanced in your posts i feel like an idiot and probably am one. Ok i gave my niece a laptop. put zorin 15 on it anyways wine worked great out the box. Ok she dropped the laptop on power cord and well smoke and its broke. Shes sad because i gave her a bunch of old popcap games isos. I got another person to give me an old laptop. i installed zorin 16 just cause latest. what used to run the programs full screen is giving me a window with no maximize.i have set virtual desktop to screen resolution. same size game window but full windows background. Ok im in a jam have been searching for answers but havent found any. disable this and such, but not working for full screen. I am hoping this is so easy no one wants to post it. I got her traveling to my place soon and i would like to replace her toy. is there something im missing in wine graphics config? sorry I dont mean to pester just i dont usually use it so no experience. Should i roll back the wine to zorin 15s version? will it work on what is said to be wine 9.0? again sorry just beyond what i know and can fix in the time before i hope to give it to her.
Re: trying to get fullscreen in super old dos games
umm any help at all?
Re: trying to get fullscreen in super old dos games
So much writing so little useful information. You might want to consider leaving our your life story and including more technical data that could actually help us to help you. Just saying buddy. 
What spec is the laptop and what graphics is it using? you might have access to inxi, if so open a terminal and type in
It may be that the new hardware is not capable of running any games at higher resolutions or full screen.
Wine and the distro are completely independent. Zorin is Ubuntu (Debian) based so it may be that you are running wine 10.2 which is know to have a problem on those distros. Either upgrade to 10.3, which I'm told is fine or downgrade to 10.2. If you're not using 10.2(/3) perhaps you need to install wine staging.
Try to run you games from the command line and include some useful output.
What spec is the laptop and what graphics is it using? you might have access to inxi, if so open a terminal and type in
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inxi -bGWine and the distro are completely independent. Zorin is Ubuntu (Debian) based so it may be that you are running wine 10.2 which is know to have a problem on those distros. Either upgrade to 10.3, which I'm told is fine or downgrade to 10.2. If you're not using 10.2(/3) perhaps you need to install wine staging.
Try to run you games from the command line and include some useful output.
Re: trying to get fullscreen in super old dos games
totally understand that i am an idiot and respect you for saying so. ok
Host: elise-NE56R Kernel: 6.8.0-52-generic x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: GNOME 43.9 Distro: Zorin OS 17.2
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Gateway product: NE56R v: V2.13
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Gateway model: EG50_HC_HR v: Type2 - Board Version
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Gateway v: 2.13 date: 01/17/2013
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 12.1 Wh (41.2%) condition: 29.4/47.5 Wh (61.9%)
volts: 11.1 min: 10.8
CPU:
Info: dual core Intel Celeron B830 [MCP] speed (MHz): avg: 798
min/max: 800/1800
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: Sunplus Innovation HD WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: wayland server: X.Org v: 1.22.1.1 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.1
compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
gpu: i915 resolution: 1360x768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 2000 (SNB GT1)
v: 3.3 Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.3
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom NetLink BCM57785 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 60.47 GiB (20.3%)
Info:
Processes: 228 Uptime: 22h 21m Memory: 7.57 GiB used: 2.54 GiB (33.5%)
Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.13
elise@elise-NE56R:~$
old lap top for preeteen kid. games are from popcap
bejeweled and peggle i cant send the details really but like 2000s i think. i gave her my game disks she has laptop now but can get data and have an adult to help.
thank you for your help. I apologize for wordy.
Host: elise-NE56R Kernel: 6.8.0-52-generic x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: GNOME 43.9 Distro: Zorin OS 17.2
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Gateway product: NE56R v: V2.13
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Gateway model: EG50_HC_HR v: Type2 - Board Version
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Gateway v: 2.13 date: 01/17/2013
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 12.1 Wh (41.2%) condition: 29.4/47.5 Wh (61.9%)
volts: 11.1 min: 10.8
CPU:
Info: dual core Intel Celeron B830 [MCP] speed (MHz): avg: 798
min/max: 800/1800
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: Sunplus Innovation HD WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: wayland server: X.Org v: 1.22.1.1 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.1
compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
gpu: i915 resolution: 1360x768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 2000 (SNB GT1)
v: 3.3 Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.3
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom NetLink BCM57785 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 60.47 GiB (20.3%)
Info:
Processes: 228 Uptime: 22h 21m Memory: 7.57 GiB used: 2.54 GiB (33.5%)
Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.13
elise@elise-NE56R:~$
old lap top for preeteen kid. games are from popcap
bejeweled and peggle i cant send the details really but like 2000s i think. i gave her my game disks she has laptop now but can get data and have an adult to help.
thank you for your help. I apologize for wordy.
Re: trying to get fullscreen in super old dos games
My biggest concern here is "Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics".
If any of these games require 3D graphics acceleration I'm not sure they are ever going to run fullscreen (even if Windows was installed) on this laptop. I would need to do some research. Try installing wine-staging 10.1 (avoid the latest iterations; 10.2 certain is broken and perhaps 10.3 as well). If they ran fullscreen in wine on Zorin previously that suggests it may be a hardware deficiency...it could go either way though.
I hope Elise gets her games back full screen soon.
If any of these games require 3D graphics acceleration I'm not sure they are ever going to run fullscreen (even if Windows was installed) on this laptop. I would need to do some research. Try installing wine-staging 10.1 (avoid the latest iterations; 10.2 certain is broken and perhaps 10.3 as well). If they ran fullscreen in wine on Zorin previously that suggests it may be a hardware deficiency...it could go either way though.
I hope Elise gets her games back full screen soon.
