http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30056
--- Comment #6 from Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@baikal.ru 2012-03-06 06:05:31 CST --- (In reply to comment #5)
DosBOX is for DOS applications, but there are nevertheless Windows games which run only on 640x480 and obviously won't run in DosBOX.
If the app doesn't change the screen resolution on its own what's wrong with
xrandr -s 640x480 wine your_old_game.exe xrandr -s your_preferred_resulurion
?