This is a longshot, but any help would be appreciated.
I'm having trouble on my pc (win xp) because the resolution in zzt (and all consoles at full screen) is a bit off. It should be 640x400, but it's running at 640x350. It causes these "stitching" problems with the dithered tiles and it drives me up the wall. It leaves streaky patterns on any shape made up of normals or water.
Here is an example:
It only looks like this when ZZT is run normally (edit: through windows). There are no image problems under dosbox, but it's somehow slow and I shouldn't have to use that when it otherwise runs perfectly under normal conditions. Any suggestions or pointers in the right direction on how to make the screen display in the proper resolution would be greatly appreciated.
that happens the same way for my windows me computer, however, on my windows xp computer, it looks fine (runs slowly, though). i always thought that the bad look was due to an altered default dos font, so what i would do is creat a font using a tool like font mania (i'm sure it's posted somewhere on the main site) to create a .COM file, and use note pad to create a .BAT file. use the .BAT file to load zzt or a zzt game, and it'll look normal!
for your dos box speed problem, did you try using ctrl f12 to increase the speed? if so, than i dunno what is slowing it down besides something like a low amount or ram or running too many programs at once :\
the zzfont works with zztunder and from the command line, but not when running through win32 kevedit (i think it calls cmd.exe to run zzt, and there's no time to load a font)
one thing i've noticed, i don't know if it'll be of any use to you:
when i load up zzt and i start in a window, i find that if i convert to fullscreen during the startup screen (mouse, keyboard? color, monochrome?), it usually has the ugly resolution problem you mentioned in the fullscreen mode. however, if i change to fullscreen after that screen is gone and zzt itself starts, there is no problem.
i guess the startup uses a different resolution, or something. since the zzt font goes over the startup screen, it forces it into a different resolution so there's no problem.
(ps. i do not use dosbox to load zzt)
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I just realized that this morning. It was always loading in the bad resolution because I had changed zzt.exe's properties to start in full screen mode automatically
