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Jack Orlando

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Jack Orlando
Jack Orlando cover
Developers
Original Toontraxx
Director's Cut Reality Pump Studios
Publishers
TopWare Interactive
Nordic Games
Release dates
DOS 1997
Windows 1997
macOS (OS X) (Wine) June 18, 2013[1]
Linux (Wine) March 20, 2017[2]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Cinematic camera
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure, Puzzle
Vehicles Automobile
Art styles Stylized
Themes Detective/mystery, Interwar, North America
Jack Orlando on HowLongToBeat
Jack Orlando on IGDB
Jack Orlando on MobyGames
Jack Orlando on Wikipedia

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.

Jack Orlando is a singleplayer cinematic camera adventure and puzzle game.

The game received a Director's Cut in September 2001, with additional content, improved audio and visual quality and difficulty selection.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
Windows
GamersGate
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Director's Cut.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
GOG.com
DRM-free
Director's Cut.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
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Director's Cut.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Director's Cut.
Windows

Version differences

Director's Cut version of the game includes additional content, improved audio and visual quality and difficulty selection.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\TopWare Poland\Jack Orlando[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux
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>\Savegame
Windows <path-to-game>\Savegame[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Director's cut launcher settings.
Director's cut launcher settings.

Windowed

Force using DxWnd[citation needed]
  1. Download DxWnd.
  2. Extract it and launch it.
  3. In DxWnd, choose Edit and Add.
  4. In a Main tab, type in Name - Jack Orlando.
  5. For Path click on a button ....
  6. Go to <path-to-game> and choose JackOrlando.exe.
  7. Check fields in a Generic area: Hook Enabled, Run in Window, Hook all DLLs and Remap Client Rect.
  8. Under Position check Keep aspect ratio.
  9. Now, go to a DirectX tab.
  10. Under Emulation check field: Primary Buffer.
  11. Go to Input tab.
  12. Check fields Force cursor clipping.
  13. Click OK to close a configuration window.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
[citation needed]
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Polish
Russian
Not available in the Steam version.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes SVGA, SVGA (VESA)
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
This 32-bit-only macOS game does not work on macOS Catalina (10.15) or later.
Linux

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) Intel i486
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 30 MB
Video card (GPU) SVGA
Other 4x CD-ROM drive
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel i486
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 640x480 resolution
1 MB of VRAM
Other 4x CD-ROM drive
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device) 5.1 support
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, SteamOS
Processor (CPU) Single Core
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1300 MB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device) 5.1 support


Notes

  1. Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
  2. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References