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Revision as of 10:16, 15 October 2021

Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess
Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess cover
Developers
Interplay Entertainment
Release dates
DOS 1991
Windows (DOSBox) October 14, 2008[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) October 26, 2012[2]
Linux (DOSBox) November 14, 2017[3]
Taxonomy
Series Battle Chess
Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess on MobyGames
Battle Chess
Battle Chess 1988
Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess 1991
Battle Chess 4000 1992
Battle Chess: Game of Kings 2015

General information

Official developer site
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
No disk copy protection
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Battle Chess Special Edition. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[4] Bundled with Battle Chess and Battle Chess 4000.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/678620/pfx/[Note 2]
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/678620/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Hot seat
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2.1
Processor (CPU) 286
System memory (RAM) 512 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
These are general GOG.com system requirements, the game will run on almost any hardware.
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8 or later
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 MB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
These are general GOG.com system requirements, the game will run on almost any hardware.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References