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evans932

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Hello, I don't know if this is a good place to ask but I don't really know where else to ask.

I am running win 7 and have a problem with an old game called "operation spacehog" I played it ages ago on my old pc on win xp and 98 and it ran fine. Now when I start it up it opens in a small window, very small. There is no option to maximize it. I thought it might be a problem with windows 7 but after trying to run it in compatibility mode, trying to force open it maximized in shortcut properties, even going to virtual box and installing windows xp and then windows 98 the same thing happens.
Please HELP I am running out of ideas and the lowest resolution I can go to is 640x480 and that only brings the window up to about 1/4 of the size its supposed to be. If this information is of any help I have a radeon hd 7970 and a 1920x1080 monitor maybe its something to do with that I dont know...
 
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Vynavill

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It would be nice to know WHAT is written into that little window instead of just knowing it appears. It could be anything :p

Anyways, if my hunch is right, I think you're talking about an old DOS era game. VirtualBox or any OS won't help, as it's the hardware being incompatible itself.
If you have a 7970 I suppose you have a 64bit cpu as well, yes? Those games natively can't run on nowadays' newer architectures, as they lack entirely what is needed to run them.
You need a DOS emulator for that, or a DOSBox, in short.

As a side note, mind that I said emulator, which is different from a virtual machine. A VirtualBox instance with DOS installed won't work.
 
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evans932

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Thanks for the reply, and yes I have a 64bit cpu and unfortunately the game is not from the DOS era although it is old I tried DOSbox and it doesn't work with that game. The game runs it's just that it is in a very small window and it's almost impossible to play it because I can hardly see what's going on :p. The trouble I have is that it is impossible to maximize it and even when I got the window to maximize somehow the game was running in the top left corner of the "maximized" window and it was still the same size :p its a very stubborn game as it turns out. I thought it might be a hardware problem too because no matter what I do it still runs in that 200x150 (estimated) window
 
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What's the game's name? I'm curious. And by DOS era i mean it's a 16bit game (just as much as 64bit cpus can run 32 bit apps in compatibility mode, the same happened with 32 bit ones running 16 bit apps. It however doesn't happen across two architectures, and that's why a 64 bit cpu can't play it)

In any case, that's probably because you need to configure it. You need to find the dosbox.conf file for your installation and set the right settings for your system.
Those will be your global settings, and you can subsequently create and define conf files on a per-app basis which will either use global settings or override their values.
 
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evans932

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The name of the game is "operation spacehog" and no alt+enter does nothing. It is weird because I thought if it was incompatible it wouldn't runs at all instead it just runs in this small window.
 
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If it won't let you resize the window it is running in, you can try lowering your desktop resolution in windows. Or if you have an old low-res monitor you could hook it up as a second display and play it on that.
 
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