Playing in Full Screen

[Sines]

Unhappy with games that seem to not be out to kill me, I've decided to give ADOM a try. I'm having about as much success as I imagined, having trouble getting the commands down.

Me: Okay I'll want some food *pick up 2 heavy rations*

Storekeeper: You owe me 47 gold.

Me: Hmm... how do I do that... AH I see... 'g'ive. Here you go my good man

Storekeeper: *Takes gold* You owe me 47 gold.

Me: Crap... I only have 43 gold left after that... guess I'm going to have to deal with this the hard way *Fires an arrow at the shopkeep* HOLY CRAP WHERE DID THOSE GAURDS COME FROM?!

He was doing pretty well too... ANYWAY. The question I wanted to ask was how to get the game running in fullscreen on Windows Vista. I get a tiny little window and I'd like to increase it so I can either see more or just get bigger letters so I squint less. I tried selecting the program and asking it to run in fullscreen mode, but to no avail, the game just says it can't do that and I still get a tiny window.

[Scienceman123]

Unhappy with games that seem to not be out to kill me, I've decided to give ADOM a try. I'm having about as much success as I imagined, having trouble getting the commands down.

Me: Okay I'll want some food *pick up 2 heavy rations*

Storekeeper: You owe me 47 gold.

Me: Hmm... how do I do that... AH I see... 'g'ive. Here you go my good man

Storekeeper: *Takes gold* You owe me 47 gold.

Me: Crap... I only have 43 gold left after that... guess I'm going to have to deal with this the hard way *Fires an arrow at the shopkeep* HOLY CRAP WHERE DID THOSE GAURDS COME FROM?!

He was doing pretty well too... ANYWAY. The question I wanted to ask was how to get the game running in fullscreen on Windows Vista. I get a tiny little window and I'd like to increase it so I can either see more or just get bigger letters so I squint less. I tried selecting the program and asking it to run in fullscreen mode, but to no avail, the game just says it can't do that and I still get a tiny window.

Not fullscreen, but can you set it to run at a lower resolution in the compatibility settings? Like "Run in 640x480 screen resolution"?

[theotherhiveking]

Unhappy with games that seem to not be out to kill me, I've decided to give ADOM a try. I'm having about as much success as I imagined, having trouble getting the commands down.

Me: Okay I'll want some food *pick up 2 heavy rations*

Storekeeper: You owe me 47 gold.

Me: Hmm... how do I do that... AH I see... 'g'ive. Here you go my good man

Storekeeper: *Takes gold* You owe me 47 gold.

Me: Crap... I only have 43 gold left after that... guess I'm going to have to deal with this the hard way *Fires an arrow at the shopkeep* HOLY CRAP WHERE DID THOSE GAURDS COME FROM?!

He was doing pretty well too... ANYWAY. The question I wanted to ask was how to get the game running in fullscreen on Windows Vista. I get a tiny little window and I'd like to increase it so I can either see more or just get bigger letters so I squint less. I tried selecting the program and asking it to run in fullscreen mode, but to no avail, the game just says it can't do that and I still get a tiny window.

Open the shell, config it to run fullscreen and the run adom from there.

Dunno if you can do that with vista.

[Epythic]

All ways to do that that I know involve installing Linux.

[theotherhiveking]

All ways to do that that I know involve installing Linux.

Imho vista has a shell.

[Sines]

Tried some of those, one of which was suggested by my roomate, but none worked. Ah well, I'll survive. Or get Diablo II. Depends on my wallet ^_^

[lochok]

You can always use the tweakfont program - http://www.geocities.com/adombot/tweakfont.zip

At the very least you can get a bigger font, and you should be able to get fairly close to full size...

[rmcin329]

Tried some of those, one of which was suggested by my roomate, but none worked. Ah well, I'll survive. Or get Diablo II. Depends on my wallet ^_^

If you do get Diablo II get the expansion for it too, its lots more fun with the expansion.

[Nezur]

-- The question I wanted to ask was how to get the game running in fullscreen on Windows Vista. --

Well, you could try to run it using this frontend with this colour correcting shortcut should you see wrong colours.

[Grey]

Does Sage work in Vista, Nezur? It does allow both font resizing in the console and fullscreen mode through Alt+Enter (amongst a huge number of interface improvements), but I hadn't heard of anyone successfully getting it running in Vista.