Oolite Bulletins

Does anybody from the forum have experience with oolite running in a wide screen monitor?

I am thinking of buying one but I do not want to end up seeing the planets in the shape of an egg

I've run Oolite on my PowerBook which has a widescreen monitor, and everything looks fine.
The planets are round, just like they are on my non-widescreen monitor.
I think that this should be taken care of my the graphics card and the OS, and so distortion should not occur.
I don't know if this is the way things work, but it seems to be so with almost all programs.

Assuming the screen has a 1:1 pixel aspect ratio, which it almost certainly does, a wide screen works just like a wide window: you get the same width of field and lose some height. I do most of my testing on an 8:5 ratio screen.

Compensating for stretched display modes and providing the same overall amount of vision (a constant solid angle) are on my to-not-do-before-MNSR list.

I'm running Oolite with 1920px x 1200px with an Nvidia GeForce 7950 Go, it looks very good. Your graphics card driver does the rest.

I am thinking of buying one but I do not want to end up seeing the planets in the shape of an egg

On a mac in windowed mode I can stretch the window within certain limits. Probably it also works on Windows. When you stretch the window you have an impression how it looks in a wide screen: undistorted.

Thanks for your replies guys!!
Ahruman I am not asking (or implying) anything. You have already done too much for oolite.

I have just bought a 22" wide screen monitor. With the resolution of 1680 x 1050 the game looks perfect. No distortion at all

Oh man !!! Now I can die happy

I've been running for 2 years on a 19" LCD widescreen 1440 x 900 and it's a dream.

The real improvement was changing from a old CRT monitor to a flat screen.

TGHC wrote:

The real improvement was changing from a old CRT monitor to a flat screen.

So is my laptop - and because of it, I can only play Oolite at night... Any glare is enough for me not to see the ships until they're real close!

With my old CRt monitor I used to play at night with the room lights off to avoid screen reflections and had a USB bendy stalk LED to light the keyboard!

TGHC wrote:

With my old CRt monitor I used to play at night with the room lights off to avoid screen reflections and had a USB bendy stalk LED to light the keyboard!

Blimey I have a doppleganger!
I still have to do that. Much nicer when I can play at work on the nice LCD screens. Playing it through the lecture room projector is pretty neato too.

TGHC wrote:

With my old CRt monitor I used to play at night with the room lights off to avoid screen reflections and had a USB bendy stalk LED to light the keyboard!

This is one of the occasions when I really love the background-illuminated keyboard of my Mac!

Commander McLane wrote:

TGHC wrote:

With my old CRt monitor I used to play at night with the room lights off to avoid screen reflections and had a USB bendy stalk LED to light the keyboard!

This is one of the occasions when I really love the background-illuminated keyboard of my Mac!

Now that's a neat gizmo, can you get these as a stand alone PC compatible keyboard or is it a laptop you use?

@TGHC
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or e(vil)bay

Thanks matey I may well get one, has anybody else had expereience with these, are they worth it or is it just a gimmick.