Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold
Developers | |
---|---|
JAM Productions | |
Publishers | |
Apogee Software | |
Engines | |
Wolfenstein 3D engine | |
Release dates | |
DOS | December 3, 1993[1] |
Windows | March 10, 2009[2] |
macOS (OS X) | June 18, 2013[3] |
Linux | July 24, 2014[4] |
Blake Stone | |
---|---|
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold | 1993 |
Blake Stone: Planet Strike | 1994 |
General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
- Official site
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
---|---|---|---|---|
Retail | Floppies or CD-ROM. See run in DOSBox (retail). | |||
Official website | ||||
GOG.com | Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[5] | |||
Steam | Also sold as part of The Apogee Throwback Pack. |
Essential improvements
Patches
The latest retail patch is v3.0. Digital distribution versions are already fully patched.
BStone
BStone is a native port of the engine source code with support for higher resolutions and other features. Linux users should download the hosted precompiled version if you do not wish to compile the software from source code and extract bstone bin file into the installation folder.
Skip intro videos
Use bstone with the --no_screens
command line argument.
Run in DOSBox (retail)
To run Blake Stone correctly in DOSBox change cycles=auto
to cycles=max
. Leave all other DOSBox settings at their defaults.[6]
WDC game editor
WDC supports editing maps, enemies, music and many other game features. You must start a new game for the map changes to take effect.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
---|---|
DOS | <path-to-game>\CONFIG.BS6 |
Windows | <path-to-game>\CONFIG.BS6[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Linux | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358190/pfx/[Note 2] |
- 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*.BS6 |
Windows | <path-to-game>\SAVEGAM*.BS6[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Linux | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358190/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
---|---|---|
GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video settings
Input settings
Audio settings
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
DOS video modes |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Windows | |||
macOS (OS X) | |||
Linux |
System requirements
DOS | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | ||
Processor (CPU) | 386/20 | 486 |
System memory (RAM) | 528k of conventional memory | 2 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 8 MB | 8 MB |
Windows | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | XP, Vista | |
Processor (CPU) | 1.8 GHz | 486 |
System memory (RAM) | 512 MB | 1 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | DirectX 7 compatible | DirectX 9 compatible |
macOS (OS X) | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) or later | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz+ | |
System memory (RAM) | 1 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | ||
Video card (GPU) | 64 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 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). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (358190) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold - 3D Realms - Firepower Matters
- ↑ New release: Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold - GOG.com
- ↑ Mac Game Update: System Shock 2 + 10 more titles ● GOG.com
- ↑ GOG.com Now Supports Linux! - July 24, 2014
- ↑ List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com
- ↑ Settings recommended by Gemini in Ancient DOS Games --- Episode 128: Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold
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