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Author Topic: Enlarging the game window and viewing area  (Read 911 times)

DDouble

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Enlarging the game window and viewing area
« on: October 21, 2006, 01:59:00 am »
Does anyone know how to manipulate the curses tileset and init file to get a larger playing area? I dislike fullscreen mode, but I want to be able to see more of the game at once. So a bigger window with the same small resolution. Is this possible?
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Mechanoid

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Re: Enlarging the game window and viewing area
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2006, 02:10:00 am »
Fullscreen and windowed have the same display area, and as far as i know there is no way to increase the viewable area; aside from pressing TAB to get rid of the main menu.
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Angela Christine

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Re: Enlarging the game window and viewing area
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2006, 08:02:00 am »
Not quite the same thing, but I like to get a "big picture" view using the export BMP function.  I do it in windowed mode, to get the widest possible viewing area.  Then I open it with MS Paint and I can see quite a large area at once.  You can't interact with it, obviously, but it works for getting a sense of the contours of the rivers and the general shape of things.  It is like a map.

[ October 21, 2006: Message edited by: Angela Christine ]

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Re: Enlarging the game window and viewing area
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2006, 09:42:00 am »
do you reckon i can get better speed running it windowed at even lower resolution

don't suppose i need to shrink the tiles as well?

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down to single digit days per hour..

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