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Thor's Hammer

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Thor's Hammer
Thor's Hammer cover
Developers
Escape Programming
Publishers
MVP Software
Release dates
DOS November 11, 1995

Key points

Re-released as freeware on July 16, 2009.[1]

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
Official website
DRM-free
DOS

Essential improvements

Patches

The v1.1 shareware executable can be used to fix various issues with the registered version.[2]
swap v1.1 EXE[2]
  1. Download the v1.1 Shareware Episode.
  2. Extract it somewhere temporarily.
  3. Move the shareware THOR.EXE into the registered version's folder, replacing the existing file when prompted.

Run in DOSBox

To run correctly in DOSBox, set core=dynamic and cycles=60000. Leave all other DOSBox settings at their defaults.[2]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\THOR.CFG

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\THOR*.SAV
Saves are THOR0.SAV through THOR6.SAV.

Video

General settings.
General settings.

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

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound and Music.
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

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 5 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) VGA


References