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Revision as of 08:21, 19 July 2015

Atlantis: The Lost Tales
Atlantis: The Lost Tales cover
Developers
Cryo Interactive Entertainment
Publishers
Dreamcatcher Interactive
Engines
Spherical-VR
OMNI 3D
Release dates
DOS September 30, 1997
Windows September 30, 1997
macOS (OS X) June 18, 2013
Atlantis: The Lost Tales 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.
Atlantis
Atlantis: The Lost Tales 1997
Atlantis II: Beyond Atlantis 1999
Atlantis III: The New World 2001
Atlantis Evolution 2004
The Secrets of Atlantis: The Sacred Legacy 2006

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 Disc check.
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
GOG.com
DRM-free
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty

Essential improvements

Patches

Patches are available to fix various issues.

Game data

Configuration file and save game data location

Template:Game data/rowTemplate:Game data/rowTemplate:Game data/row
System Location
<path-to-game>\players.atl stores player profiles.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\CRYO\Atlantis\GameDirectory determines the game data folder on Windows.
The Windows version makes a C:\pitch.bin file; its purpose is unclear.
You'll need to reach the next checkpoint to have your settings saved, since options are stored together with savegames

Video settings

Options menu.
Options menu.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Sound options.
Sound options.

Template:Audio settings

Issues unresolved

Game won't close properly if you use Alt+F4 and will you require to manually kill the process
All game versions but the original unpatched CD one come with graphics glitches like characters without pupils, beard or with fused apparel[1]

Issues fixed

GOG.com version is laggy

Instructions

Game is too fast

Instructions

Crash on CD change

Instructions

Garbled graphics split in columns

Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Pentium 133 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.73 GB
Video card (GPU) SVGA and MPEG-2 support
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM

References