Aspect RatioΒΆ

The original Sierra games were meant to be rendered with a 4:3 aspect ratio, despite their 320x200 resolution which is a 16:10 aspect ratio with square pixels. So viewing these old games’ resources in SCICompanion, things may look squished.

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Laura Bow running in DOSBox, rendered with square pixels.

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Laura Bow running in DOSBox with aspect=true, rendered with non-square pixels as it would have originally looked.

You can tell SCICompanion to use the original 4:3 aspect ratio in the Tools->Preferences dialog.

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SCICompanion showing Laura Bow resources with the standard aspect ratio (top), and the original Sierra aspect ratio (bottom).