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    A4V7 and Windows XP

    I recently upgraded to Ver. 7 a couple of weeks ago and I love Ver. 7. I have been running Alpha 4 on my old laptop running Win. 95.

    I just purchased a new laptop running Windows XP. Here is my question;

    A4V7 boots up fine, but it comes in a very small window on my desktop. I tried to maximize the window, then I tried to strech it out but no luck.... it stays small and cramped. Do any of you other users use XP and did you have this problem? If so do you have any suggestions?

    My LapTop is a 900 Mhz Celeron running 128 Megs of RAM.

    Regards;

    Don Ecker

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    RE: A4V7 and Windows XP

    Just right click on your start-up icon. click on the "screen" tab. Activate the full screen option. That will give you a full screen when A4 is activated.

    Regards,

    RS

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      #3
      RE: A4V7 and Windows XP

      Rick;

      When you say "just right click on the start up icon" are you referring to the A4 icon? I checked and there is no screen tab. What tab were you referring to?

      Regards;

      Don Ecker

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        #4
        RE: A4V7 and Windows XP

        Don,

        Perhaps he was referreing to the A4.bat file?

        Many of us create a shortcut to the A4.bat file, and drag it to the desktop. We can start Alpha Four just by clicking on the shortcut.

        If you right click on the shortcut you'll see a drop down list of menu choices, one of which is properties.

        Select properties off the drop down list, and you'll see a little dialog box, one of the tabs is 'screen'. There are several options there which you might try.

        -- tom

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          #5
          RE: A4V7 and Windows XP

          Don:

          Here's any easy way....... while the 'little' Alpha screen is active....... hold [ALT] and press [ENTER] wait a while - that should bring it to full screen. It will probably start full screen the next time as well.

          Other will, I'm sure have other ways to do this.


          Ken

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            #6
            RE: A4V7 and Windows XP

            If I understand the question, I don't think Don's problem is Window/Full Screen related. It sounds like he's saying that even when maximized, the window is too small. I have the same problem on a new XP desktop system. "Full screen" operation covers the whole screen, but the "maximized" size in "window" mode only covers about 1/3 of the screen. Resolution is set to 800x600. I don't have the solution yet. Anybody else so any good?

            Mike G

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              #7
              RE: A4V7 and Windows XP

              I experimented with properties/fonts to adjust the screen size. - Win 2000

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                RE: A4V7 and Windows XP

                Mike;

                I tried almost everything I could think of but when A4V.7 is up and running it is in a "scrunched" window about 1/3rd of my screen. So far nothing I have done enables the window to fill the screen when the program is running.

                Don

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                  #9
                  RE: A4V7 and Windows XP

                  I'm beginning to wonder if this is a problem that is specific to a particular video card or driver?

                  If everyone who is having this problem described their display adapter card and furnished the date and or revision number of their video driver maybe we'd see a common thread underlying this problem?

                  -- tom

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                    RE: A4V7 and Windows XP

                    I'm game. Computer is IBM Net Vista. My card is a NVIDIA GeForce2 MX (IBM). Driver provider is NVIDIA, 10/9/2001, version 1.5.2.2. Since Don's is a laptop, I doubt there's any correlation, but does anybody else have the scrunchy sceen?

                    Mike

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                      RE: A4V7 and Windows XP

                      I tried messing with properties yesterday as suggested, but I apparently did it wrong. I adjusted the properties by right clicking on the desktop shortcut. The changes did not take effect.

                      Today, I launched A4 in windowed mode, then right clicked on the title bar, chose properties, font, & changed it to Raster fonts, 10x18. Window now covers about 3/4 of the screen. Now if I can only figure out how to get it to open the window in the center of the screen, life will be good again.

                      Mike

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                        #12
                        RE: A4V7 and Windows XP

                        Tom;

                        My Lap Top is an Enpower 900 MHZ Celeron CPU from PC Club. I have 128 megs RAM, and just checked the video. The factory specs are SIS 630S Integrated 32/64 VRAM.

                        Does any of that help?

                        Don

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                          #13
                          RE: A4V7 and Windows XP

                          Mike,

                          You might visit the Nvidia web site and ask tech support there for tips on using the card with DOS apps. It's also possible a newer driver has been released for XP, though your's is already pretty current.

                          -- tom

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                            RE: A4V7 and Windows XP

                            I have the same problem with my grafic card. I either get a alpha screen for maximum 60% the rest appearing black and I can use my windows tools to resize it but I can�t get a "full" screen alpha. I Have a geforce 3 ti 200, driver is the latest (23.11).
                            Lu

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                              RE: A4V7 and Windows XP

                              Guys:

                              For what it is worth..... If you all are trying to run a full DOS screen there may be light at the end of the tunnel. A good way to tell is to watch the Dos-Based Initial windows splash screen displayed during the boot. It should FILL the screen. If it does not, I'll wager that your Alpha screen is exactly the same size.

                              I got this from a hardware tech guy. Most monitors have adjustments for width, height, stretch, shrink, etc. When you set these with Windows loaded the setting applies to the Windows screen. However, when you set these with the dos screen displayed [non windowed] the settings are saved seperately.

                              So try opening the OS in DOS only and size the screen. There should be a difference in the 'black' area. Stretch, shrink, size, etc to fill the screen. Now you have monitor settings for both DOS and Windows. Better yet, use the F8 key to select dos only and launch Alpha - then set the size.

                              Try it - I bet it'll work.

                              Ken

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