If you want a windowed mode > the max 800 by 600 of the download version, you need the CD version. Then you set the windowed mode to your screen size (or larger, it will crop to fit the desktop minus the windows task bar. As you have a wide screen (1280 by 800?) then 1280 by 1024 should do the trick. Remenber to ensure that your task bar is as described in the manual (normal width, at the bottom of the screen and no auto-hiding).
If your "enlarge" button is not working - I presume this is a magnifier function of the laptop?? - then try windowed mode in
Windows GDI graphics mode, as it probably will only work on "politely behaved" GDI and not with DirectX.
The windowed mode is probably best for LCD monitors, as it is using the "natural" pixel size of the LCD. Full screen mode on a LCD, I would want to have at about the screen size as well for the smae reason.
Windowed mode is also best if you want to do other things, as it retains te palette on programme changes. As described in the manual we
do allow alt-tab out of full screen mode as an "at your own risk" item, but some cards will occasionally lose the palette and go into "hippy trippy pschadellic LSD mode" on you if you do this.
Full screen on an LCD will
not allow video sizes greater than the native size I have found, unlike CRT monitors. Unfortunately - the card's driver
will report itself as able to support this mode to DirectX,
but the actual LCD monitor hardware throws a
severe hissy fit should you be so foolish as to try
, at least that is the experience I have with my Dell, when trying 1600 mode on a 1280 by 1024 LCD.