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Darklands
Darklands cover
Developers
MicroProse
Release dates
DOS 1992
Windows October 13, 2011[1]
macOS (OS X) May 9, 2013[2]
Linux July 24, 2014[3]
Darklands on Wikipedia

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Darklands Yahoo! group

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Floppies or CD-ROM. Use DOSBox and install the .07 Patch.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[4]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
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Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[5]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest retail patch is .07 Patch. Patches do not integrate the previous patches and must be installed in order. The GOG.com version already has this patch.

Utilities

Darklands All-in-One Chart v1.0 by bongo64738. An Excel spreadsheet that includes an occupations progression table, city table, potion maker and saints lists. A detailed description can be found here
Darklands Quest Lister v.1.1 by Michael Petzold: Enables you to generate a list of your current quests from a save file. Very useful as this is the only non-manual way to track such quests.
Darklands Map Tool by Savcho Savchev: Flash based; enables you to find towns from a clickable list. There is also a live online version.
Darklands Saints Tool by Savcho Savchev: Flash based; enables you to view details of saints from a clickable list. Also allows you to view which saints offer particular benefits (for example, travel by water). There is also a live online version.
Darklands Alchemy Tool by Savcho Savchev: Flash based; enables you to view details of potions from a clickable list, showing the required ingredients, quality, and risk involved. There is also a live online version.
Character Editor v2.2 by Dan Collins ("jugglindan)": Enables you to edit characters' stats and appearances.
Darklands Monetary Converter v1.1 by Jerry "Deth-B0y" Kelly: Enables you to convert "complex" monetary amounts (expressed in Florins, Groschen and Peffenigs) to "simple" monetary amounts (expressed in Peffenigs only) and vice versa.
World Regeneration Tool by Dan Collins ("jugglindan)": Enables you to randomise and regenerate an existing world by rebuilding destroyed villages and other locations. Can also shuffle the world by altering the random seed used by the game to calculate item availability in various locations (saints, ingredients etc.). The seed also determines which villages and castles are good or evil.
City Tracker Spreadsheet v1.0 by Paul Moloney: An Excel spreadsheet containing a row for each city in Darklands, showing hardcoded values (such as map coordinates, quality of blacksmith, bowyer and so on) with empty fields to fill with values particular to your instance of the game (for example, saints, formulae and physician quality).
Darklands Editor v1.1 by Steven J. Cotellesse: Enables you to edit characters' stats (older than the Character Editor by Dan Collins and not as fully featured)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Save game data location

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

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Audio settings

Sound options from game's config/installation utility
Sound options from game's config/installation utility

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German

Issues fixed

Sound problems (GOG.com)

Use this fix if the audio sounds unusual (e.g. random sounds rather than clashing weapons during combat).
Instructions

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Simultaneous MT-32 music and SoundBlaster digital speech

The game can be modified to support the MT-32 and SoundBlaster simultaneously.[6]
Instructions

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) DOS 5.0
Processor (CPU) IBM 386 or compatible
System memory (RAM) 2 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 22 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA graphics
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 82 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) or later
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM

References