The frame-buffer scaling is specific to Etoys. It traditionally uses
its own OS-independent frame-buffer, rather than GTK/Cairo as the
other activities do.
Ideally someone would patch Qemu to allow a 1200x900 resolution. In
theory that would simply require adding a 1200x900x16 mode to the
I made a disk image of the latest stable build (623 [1]) that works
for me in Parallels Desktop (build 3124 [2]).
The disk image has enough room (I padded the img to a full 1 GB),
runs with readable fonts (I patched xorg.conf as suggested in #3681),
has working sound (I unmuted alsa manually
