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Beneath a Steel Sky

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Beneath a Steel Sky
Beneath a Steel Sky cover
Developers
Revolution Software
Publishers
Virgin Interactive
Engines
Virtual Theatre
Release dates
DOS March 1994
Windows December 18, 2008[1]
macOS (OS X) December 21, 2011
Linux December 21, 2011
Beneath a Steel Sky on Wikipedia

Key points

Officially available as freeware.
Can easily be run on modern systems with ScummVM.

General information

Revolution Software Hints page
Soundtrack Enhancement Page
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Available on floppy disk or CD.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with ScummVM.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
All of the prepackaged versions use the CD release.
The data files are available for free from the ScummVM website.

Essential improvements

Running the game through ScummVM

Just use the prepackaged versions if you want the CD release.
Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Save game data location

Video settings

300px
In-game menu (F5)
300px
ScummVM settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

While this game has very few native settings, it runs on ScummVM which adds some additional settings.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) Intel 386 or better
System memory (RAM) 2 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 93 MB
Video card (GPU) 256 colour VGA graphics card
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8 or later
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 78 MB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM

References