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Latest revision as of 15:44, 12 August 2023

Pirates! Gold
Pirates! Gold cover
Developers
MPS Labs
Publishers
Retail MicroProse
Digital (original) Night Dive Studios
Digital (original) Retroism
Digital (current) Atari
Release dates
DOS 1993
Windows 3.x February 19, 1994
Mac OS (Classic) 1994
Windows (DOSBox) July 17, 2012
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) November 29, 2012[1]
Linux (DOSBox) July 24, 2014[2]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Themes Piracy
Series Sid Meier's Pirates!
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Pirates! Gold on HowLongToBeat
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Pirates! Gold guide on StrategyWiki
Pirates! Gold on MobyGames
Pirates! Gold on Wikipedia
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Sid Meier's Pirates!
Sid Meier's Pirates! 1987
Pirates! Gold 1993
Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004) 2004

Warnings

The Windows 3.x version of this game does not work on 64-bit versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).

Pirates! Gold is a singleplayer game in the Sid Meier's Pirates! series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
DOS
Windows 3.x
Mac OS
Publisher website
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
GamersGate
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 Gold Plus
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
GOG.com
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
 Bundled with Sid Meier's Pirates! DOS version pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Humble Store
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 Gold Plus
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
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Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
 Bundled with Sid Meier's Pirates! DOS version pre-packaged with DOSBox.[4]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>\PIRATES*.SAV[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\pirates.hof[Note 1]
<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.
Saves are named matching the slot (PIRATES0.SAV to PIRATES9.SAV).
pirates.hof contains Pirate Hall of Fame high scores.
This game does not store any settings.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Toggle with Alt+↵ Enter (when using DOSBox). The Windows 3.x version is windowed when the desktop resolution is higher than 640x480.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Most speech is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA, SVGA
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using winevdm.
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 6.22
Processor (CPU) Intel 386 16 MHz
System memory (RAM) 2 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 20 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA SVGA
Windows 3.x
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 3.1
Processor (CPU) 386
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 25 MB
Video card (GPU) 256 colors


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 2.2 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).

References