wine users - Aug 2011 - Scale "up" low resolution programs to fit screen?

Some old apps and games are of pretty low resolution by today's standards,
i.e. 640x480.

If I run such a program the text and interface are often very very small because
of it.

Therefore, is there a way to have Wine scale up, for example, a 640x480 virtual
desktop to fit my high resolution display?

In other words, the program will fill the screen, albeit looking more
pixellated.

penyuan wrote:
> Some old apps and games are of pretty low resolution by today's
standards, i.e. 640x480.
> 
> If I run such a program the text and interface are often very very small
because of it.
> 
> Therefore, is there a way to have Wine scale up, for example, a 640x480
virtual desktop to fit my high resolution display?
> 
> In other words, the program will fill the screen, albeit looking more
pixellated.

Wine will not scale it.  You need to configure your X server to run fullscreen
at that resolution, so that it will still run 640x480 (or whatever) in
fullscreen mode.

[quote="jjmckenzie"]
...
This is a discussion to hold with the distributor of your Linux
product.  I will state that the Mac video system through XQuartz ran
QuakeII at 640x480 very well on my MacBook Pro (2011 edition).
[/quote]
Do you mean you changed your resolution in System Preferences->Display to
640x480, start X11, then start QuakeII?

[quote="doh123"][quote="penyuan"][quote="jjmckenzie"]
...
This is a discussion to hold with the distributor of your Linux
product.  I will state that the Mac video system through XQuartz ran
QuakeII at 640x480 very well on my MacBook Pro (2011 edition).
[/quote]
Do you mean you changed your resolution in System Preferences->Display to
640x480, start X11, then start QuakeII?[/quote]
you do not need to do this [u]if you install the latest version of XQuartz[/u]
and make sure Wine is using that.  It will change automatically for you when the
game calls the resolution.  Apple's X11 on Lion supposedly will do this as
well, but XQuartz is still all around better.  Apple's X11 on Snow Leopard
and older cannot.  You really just want to run XQuartz if you are using Wine
this way.[/quote]
Please excuse my ignorance, but how do I tell Wine to use Xquartz, and should I
install Xquartz via something like Macports?
If so, how should I "invoke" Xquartz after I install it?
Thanks for your patience.

I have successfully installed xquartz. Thanks!

If I am on a Linux system, will the system's xorg work like this, too?