(This is about AoW1)

First of all: kudos to the developers for adding proper support for different screen ratios, even though ratios other than 4:3 weren't really popular at the time. Without stretching, decresing FoV or other such nonsense.

Unfortunately, with my monitor if I play at the native 1920x1200 resolution, everything looks tiny. Decreasing it makes it look better but no longer gives me pixel perfect mapping.

Looks like I have 3 options:
_Play at 800x600. This gives pixel perfect mapping 2 to 1, but the map on the game screen is rather small.
_Play at something in between. Like 1024x768 or 1280x960. This gives a nice compromise between size and map area, but no longer is pixel-perfect. This can be noticed for example if you look into eyes on protraits.
_Play at 1920x1200. Pixel perfect and you see a large map area, but everything is too small.

It's times like these I wish I had a CRT monitor where pixel sizes weren't fixed...

Important: you can display a hex grid with F5 in AoW1. However, it is F4 in AoW2/SM. F7 fixes the resolution in AoW2 if you forget and hit F5...

It would be nice to be able to scroll zoom the map like in aow:sm.

I've settled for 1152x864.

Have you tried 1280x800? Not pixel perfect, but it should look better on your 1920x1200 monitor than the other intermediate resolutions you mentioned.

Yeah, but it's not the black bars that I mind. In fact there is some appeal in playing retro games in 4:3.

After a bit of experimenting I found that what worked best for me was using DgVoodoo and set resoultion to 1280x1024.
My monitor's native resolution is 1920x1080.

sorry... wrong comment.. dont know how to delete post....all i can do is edit.... dumb dumb. poo poo.