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Alien Breed 3D II FULL SCREEN & Off Center?
« on: September 07, 2010, 09:17:29 PM »
When ever I play AB 3D II on my 1200, it starts out like it's going to play full screen, but when the game begins, it goes into Window mode. How do I re-size this window?

Also why is it that all Amiga full screen games (not just AB3DII) never actually go full screen but only end up on a small section in the center of the screen leaving 1 to 2" boarders around it all and making it a bit off center and to the right?
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Re: Alien Breed 3D II FULL SCREEN & Off Center?
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2010, 09:23:09 PM »
Hit 'Enter' on the Keypad or you can also use the - + keys, again on the keypad not the main keyboard.

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Edit, games not being centered is due to your Monitor if its an LCD maybe it has an auto adjust feature?  If not maybe its stuck that way?
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Re: Alien Breed 3D II FULL SCREEN & Off Center?
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2010, 09:24:46 PM »
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When ever I play AB 3D II on my 1200, it starts out like it's going to play full screen, but when the game begins, it goes into Window mode. How do I re-size this window?

Also why is it that all Amiga full screen games (not just AB3DII) never actually go full screen but only end up on a small section in the center of the screen leaving 1 to 2" boarders around it all and making it a bit off center and to the right?


Press the numeric keypad enter button to toggle fullscreen. The default is 2/3 screensize, which was to help speed things up a bit. AB3D 2 isn't the fastest 3D game ever.

Also, try tkgpatch (should be available on aminet). This adds a few patches to speed things up and includes stuff like improved C2P routines. One side effect of the latter is that the fullscreen display ends up horizontally off-center. The original display has a 16-pixel border left and right, but the improved C2P routines don't handle this case as they are written for speed and don't do any 16-bit chip ram writes (it would seem the border graphics were planar and thus aren't part of the regular C2P run).
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Re: Alien Breed 3D II FULL SCREEN & Off Center?
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2010, 09:26:45 PM »
Will try, thankx ya'll!
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