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Blake Stone: Planet Strike

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Blake Stone: Planet Strike
Developers

	JAM Productions
Publishers
	Apogee Software
Engines
	Wolfenstein 3D engine
Release dates
DOS	October 28, 1994^[1]
Windows	March 19, 2009^[2]
macOS (OS X)	May 9, 2013
Linux	July 24, 2014^[3]

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

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Floppies or CD-ROM. See run in DOSBox (retail).
Official website
GOG.com		Pre-packaged with DOSBox.^[4]
Steam		Also sold as part of The Apogee Throwback Pack.

Essential improvements

bstone

bstone is a native port of the engine source code with support for higher resolutions and other features.

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.

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

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System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358310/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

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System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358310/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

DOSBox Configurator settings

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Input settings

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Audio settings

Audio settings.

Audio settings.

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Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

System requirements

DOS
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	DOS
Processor (CPU)	386/20	486
System memory (RAM)	560k of conventional memory	2 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	5 MB
Video card (GPU)	VGA

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	1.8 GHz
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 2GHz+
System memory (RAM)	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	64 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1
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 (358310) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

References