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Subseries of Dungeons & Dragons
Pool of Radiance (series)
Curse of the Azure Bonds	1989
Secret of the Silver Blades	1990
Buck Rogers (series)
Champions of Krynn	1990
Neverwinter Nights	1991
Pools of Darkness	1991
Gateway to the Savage Frontier	1991
Death Knights of Krynn	1991
The Dark Queen of Krynn	1992
Treasures of the Savage Frontier	1992
Spelljammer: Pirates of Realmspace	1992
Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures	1993

Gateway to the Savage Frontier is a singleplayer first-person RPG game in the Gold Box series.

General information

Characters can be transferred from Curse of the Azure Bonds.^[2]

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions for game series

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com		Bundled with Pool of Radiance, Hillsfar, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades, Pools of Darkness, Treasures of the Savage Frontier, and Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures.
Steam		Bundled with Pool of Radiance, Hillsfar, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades, Pools of Darkness, Treasures of the Savage Frontier, and Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures.

The retail version requires the manual to answer copy protection questions. The GOG.com version will accept any answer.^[3]

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Edit GAME.CFG^[4]
Go to the installation folder. Edit `GAME.CFG`. Change `F` to `N`. Run the game with `game UseStart` The game will now go directly to the main menu skipping the logos and hardware reconfiguration question.

Gold Box Companion

Gold Box Companion is a program for Windows that adds various optional features when playing the DOS version in DOSBox (automap, party HUD, raising level restrictions, character editing, etc.)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\GAME.CFG
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]}

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	<path-to-game>\SAVE\
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]}

The default save folder can be changed by editing GAME.CFG.

Saves are SAVGAMA.DAT to SAVGAMJ.DAT.

Character files are *.GUY. Character files are only present when that character is not part of a party in a save file.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		320x200 only.
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
120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		On/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles		Everything is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		For DOSBox change the `priority` background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes	CGA, EGA, Tandy, VGA

System requirements

DOS
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)

Notes

↑ ^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).

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Release: Forgotten Realms: The Archives - GOG.com
↑ The CRPG Addict: Gateway to the Savage Frontier: Summary and Rating - last accessed on May 2023
↑ NOTE: Copy protection in these games, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
↑ Verified by User:Garrett on December 12, 2016

[DOSBox_mounted-5] 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).

[release_date-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Release: Forgotten Realms: The Archives - GOG.com

[2] The CRPG Addict: Gateway to the Savage Frontier: Summary and Rating - last accessed on May 2023

[3] NOTE: Copy protection in these games, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023

[4] Verified by User:Garrett on December 12, 2016

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Developers

	Beyond Software
Publishers
Retail	Strategic Simulations Inc.
Digital, former	GOG.com
Digital, current	SNEG
Engines
	Gold Box
Release dates
DOS	1991
Windows (DOSBox)	August 20, 2015^[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox)	August 20, 2015^[1]
Linux (DOSBox)	August 20, 2015^[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Turn-based
Perspectives	First-person
Genres	RPG
Themes	Fantasy
Series	Gold Box