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Alone in the Dark

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Alone in the Dark
Alone in the Dark cover
Developers
Infogrames
Publishers
Original EU Infogrames
Original NA Interplay Entertainment
Current Atari
Release dates
DOS January 1, 1992
Mac OS (Classic) 1994
Windows April 14, 2011[1]
macOS (OS X) November 29, 2012[2]
Alone in the Dark guide on StrategyWiki
Alone in the Dark on Wikipedia
Alone in the Dark
Alone in the Dark 1992
Jack in the Dark 1993
Alone in the Dark 2 1993
Alone in the Dark 3 1994
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare 2001
Alone in the Dark (2008) 2008
Alone in the Dark: Illumination 2015
Alone in the Dark (2024) 2024

For the 2008 sequel, see Alone in the Dark (2008).

Key points

Use DOSBox to run on modern systems.

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes Alone in the Dark 2 and Alone in the Dark 3. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Windows

Game data

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Alone in the Dark settings
To change an option, set the values and click Update.

Configuration file(s) location

Save game data location

File names: SAVE0.ITD, SAVE1.ITD etc.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

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Graphics settings (GOG.com version)

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Issues fixed

If you haven't found a fix, check our DOSBox page for solutions.

Error when starting the game

If an error doesn't let you into the game change the DOSBox output mode to something else.

The game is too slow/fast

Just press Ctrl+F11 to slow down or Ctrl+F12 to speed up in DOSBox.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/548090/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (548090) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References