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Blackthorne

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Blackthorne
Blackthorne cover
Developers
Blizzard Entertainment
Publishers
DOS Interplay Entertainment
Mac OS MacPlay
Release dates
DOS 1994
Mac OS (Classic) 1996
Windows November 3, 2013
macOS (OS X) 2013
Blackthorne guide on StrategyWiki
Blackthorne on Wikipedia

Key points

Released as Blackhawk in Europe.
Re-released as a free download in October 2013.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Use DOSBox (see Run in DOSBox).
DOS
Developer website
DRM-free
DOS version pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Run in DOSBox

To run correctly in DOSBox, change cycles=auto to cycles=fixed 13000. Leave all other DOSBox settings at their defaults.[1]

Game data

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SAVEGAME.000
Windows <path-to-game>\SAVEGAME.000[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
In-game settings are not stored between sessions.

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
European retail only.
German
European retail only.
Russian
Fan translation, download

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

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 3.1
Processor (CPU) 386sx
System memory (RAM) 2 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA

Notes

  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).

References

  1. Settings used by Blizzard in the 2013 re-release.