Posted by: praguepride
« on: April 01, 2010, 05:37:14 AM »Another bay12'er here. You'd be surprised at how nice a compliment Aurora got being described as the "dwarf fortress of 4x"
I know I was sold
I know I was sold
This is the size and font for windowed mode. Changing to 800x600 and the 800x600 font might make you happier.
[WINDOWEDX:640]
[WINDOWEDY:300]
[FONT:curses_640x300.bmp]
Full screen info.
[FULLSCREENX:800]
[FULLSCREENY:600]
[FULLFONT:curses_800x600.bmp]
This is the dimensions in tiles of the display grid. Minimum x is 80. Minimum y is 25. Maximums are 200. Make sure the window size or full screen resolution matches the grid/tile size if you don't want the display to be squashed or stretched. The default windowed font has tiles that are 8x12 pixels, for instance, so for a 80x25 grid, you use a 640x300 window, and for a 125x50 grid, you'd use a 1000x600 window. FULLGRID is used in full screen mode, whether graphics is on or not.
[GRID:80:25]
[FULLGRID:80:25]
Apparently, resize enable does not work in windows 7, although it was a far fetch to expect it to work on a different OS than it was intended for.
With regard to install issues on Vista and Windows7. I don't use those operating systems and I hope I won't be held responsible if Microsoft don't make their operating systems more backwardly compatible. However, the common problems and solutions have been posted on here by very helpful members of this forum so I would recommend reading those.
Anyone receiving the "3061 error from the DAO database: too few parameters, expecting 1" error, either has mismatched versions of the database and program, which means they may not have followed the installation instructions and should uninstall and re-install, or they have the decimal separator issue, in which case they need to change that in their regional setting.
One of the programs several of us discovered earlier to run Aurora on laptops is ResizeEnable, a freeware program. The program lets you resize all windows, even those normally not resizeable. It can be found with a google seach. I have found it very helpful in running Aurora on my laptop, giving me access to the entire window.The only reason I can play Aurora (and hence remain sane when away from home; well sane-ish ) on my laptop is through using ResizeEnable. I'm sure there are other programs available but this one works for me.
Mark
I find the offered solution of getting a new monitor to be silly with the b12'er issue, as it was also in relation to laptops, which can't exactly get a larger monitor for.You can plug a larger monitor into almost all laptops. I used to do this all the time. I also had a docking station for the laptop with separate keyboard, mouse and monitor.