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Phantasmagoria

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Phantasmagoria
Phantasmagoria cover
Developers
Sierra Entertainment
Engines
SCI2
Release dates
DOS August 24, 1995
Windows August 24, 1995
Mac OS (Classic) August 1995
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Phantasmagoria guide on StrategyWiki
Phantasmagoria on Wikipedia
Phantasmagoria
Phantasmagoria 1995
Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh 1996

Key points

Can be run under ScummVM

General information

Hardcore Gaming 101 - Comprehensive feature
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
Windows
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Pre-packaged with ScummVM
DOSBox version is also available (when using GOG Galaxy).[1]
Windows
Steam
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Windows
The Steam release uses DOSBox.

Essential improvements

Improve FMV scaling and remove interlaced lines

Change in-game option[2]
  1. Start a new game.
  2. Click on the big stylized P letter in the middle of your user interface to access options.
  3. Change a movie mode from Half Screen to Full Screen.
  4. Click on More.
  5. Change Movie Detail setting to On to remove interlaced lines.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\RESOURCE.CFG
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/501990/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>\Phant\PHANTSG.*[Note 2]
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/501990/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings - Page 1.
General settings - Page 1.
General settings - Page 2.
General settings - Page 2.

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Windowed

Adjusting windowed mode in digital release[3]
  1. Edit <path-to-game>\Phant\DOSBOX\dosboxPHANT.conf with a text editor.
  2. To start the game in windowed mode, set fullscreen= to false.
  3. To modify window resolution (image will be upscaled):
    1. Set the resolution in windowresolution= to a resolution you want. E.g. windowresolution=1280x960.
    2. Change the output to output=opengl.

Input settings

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Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Not available digitally. See this guide.
German
Italian
Spanish
Fan translation, download.

Issues fixed

Objects spin too fast when you inspect them / elements of a game run too fast

Set the cycles limit[3]
  1. Edit <path-to-game>\Phant\DOSBOX\dosboxPHANT_single.conf with a text editor.
  2. Go to [cpu] section.
  3. Change cycles=max to cycles=fixed 26800

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes SVGA
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) Intel 486 25 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 MB
Video card (GPU) SVGA
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz 1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7.0 compatible DirectX 9.0c compatible
The Windows requirements refer to the digital releases.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
  2. ↑ 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