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Pool of Radiance
Pool of Radiance cover
Developers
Strategic Simulations, Inc.
Engines
Gold Box
Release dates
DOS August 1988
Mac OS (Classic) 1989
Windows August 20, 2015[1]
macOS (OS X) August 20, 2015[1]
Linux August 20, 2015[1]
Pool of Radiance on Wikipedia
⤏ Go to series page
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

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
 Run in DOSBox.
DOS
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Bundled with Curse of the Azure Bonds, Hillsfar, Secret of the Silver Blades, Pools of Darkness, Gateway to the Savage Frontier, Treasures of the Savage Frontier, and Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
The retail version requires the Translation Wheel to answer copy protection questions. The GOG.com version has the copy protection cracked (anything will be accepted).[2]

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Skip code wheel prompts

Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location

Save game data location

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System Location

Video settings

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 384k
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) CGA, EGA, Tandy

References