Windowed mode & stretched videos: mission select image - Command & Conquer Unofficial Patch 1.06 mod for Command & Conquer
The Past Ain't What It Used To Be... The first Command & Conquer received its last official update on the 21st of June, 1996. Since then, the game has been ported to Windows (as "Gold" version), and re-released in the big "The First Decade" collection pack, but has never received any more bug fixes. The C&C Gold Patch 1.06 project aims to bring this classic into the new millennium, by fixing the old bugs, supporting higher resolutions, and adding new modding and mapping possibilities. It also contains an addon-based language system, allowing anyone to create translation packs for the game.
[THIS CHANGE HAS BEEN MADE OBSOLETE SINCE THE GAME'S OWN VERTICAL STRETCHING ALGORITHM HAS BEEN FOUND]
This shows the algorithm written into the ddraw.dll by CnCFan to detect scenes with scan lines (videos, score screens, mission choice screens), and both remove the lines and stretch the scene to fullscreen.
The detection and the stretching was complicated a lot by text drawn over the scenes afterwards, which did NOT have scan lines, but with a mix of game edits and changes in the detection and stretching algorithms, we managed to make the effect pretty much perfect.
As an added bonus, all of these scenes will have their aspect ratio corrected, so they look as they are meant to look, like they did in the original DOS game.
These new video stretching options are fully integrated into the new CCSetup tool.