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Bio Menace

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Bio Menace
Bio Menace cover
Developers
Apogee Software
Release dates
DOS August 3, 1993[1]
Windows October 23, 2014[2]
macOS (OS X) May 5, 2015[3]
Linux December 21, 2015[4]
Bio Menace on Wikipedia

Key points

Re-released as freeware on December 23, 2005.[5]

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
3D Realms page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
Official website
DRM-free
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Essential improvements

Run in DOSBox

To run correctly in DOSBox, set cycles=max and timed=false. Leave all other DOSBox settings at their defaults.[6]

The freeware version includes a DOSBox patch; newer versions of DOSBox don't need this and it can cause problems.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\CONFIG.BM*
Windows <path-to-game>\CONFIG.BM*[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358180/pfx/[Note 2]
The extension matches the episode number.
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>\SAVEGAM*.BM*
Windows <path-to-game>\SAVEGAM*.BM*[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358180/pfx/[Note 2]
Save games are SAVEGAM0.BM1 to SAVEGAM5.BM1; the extension matches the episode number.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Options menu.
Options menu.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Key mapping.
Key mapping.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Cursor/character moves constantly

Ensure you have set the DOSBox joystick timing correctly (see Run in DOSBox).

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes EGA
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 3.3
Processor (CPU) 286
System memory (RAM) 575k of conventional memory
Hard disk drive (HDD) 10 MB
Video card (GPU) EGA

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/358180/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (358180) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References