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Populous
Populous cover
Developers
Bullfrog Productions
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release dates
DOS June 5, 1989
Mac OS (Classic) 1993
Windows September 1, 2011
macOS (OS X) October 18, 2012
Populous on Wikipedia
Populous
Populous 1989
Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods 1991
Populous: The Beginning 1998

Key points

The manual is required to pass the in-game DRM. A digital version is available on the disk (Retail only)

General information

Populous Wiki - a small wiki for the Populous series
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Template:Availability Table

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Save game data location

Video settings

File:GOG.com DOSBox Configurator Basic settings.png
Basic graphics settings (GOG.com)
File:GOG.com DOSBox Configurator Advanced settings.png
Advanced graphics settings (GOG.com)

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Issues fixed

Jaggy mouse input

The Origin version uses DOSBox. A bug in this version causes the mouse to feel jaggy or less smooth.
Instructions

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) MS-DOS 3.3
Processor (CPU) IBM PC compatible
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA video card
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)