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Revision as of 01:44, 22 May 2017

Sid Meier's Pirates!
Sid Meier's Pirates! cover
Developers
MicroProse
Release dates
DOS May 8, 1987
Mac OS (Classic) 1988
Windows 1993
macOS (OS X) November 29, 2012[1]
Linux July 24, 2014[2]
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Sid Meier's Pirates! guide on StrategyWiki
Sid Meier's Pirates! on Wikipedia
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Sid Meier's Pirates! 1987
Pirates! Gold 1993
Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004) 2004

For the remake, see Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004).

Key points

A manual supplement is required to pass the in-game DRM

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
 Use DOSBox. Windows version will not work on 64-bit Windows.
DOS
Windows
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Pirates! and Pirates! Gold DOS versions pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
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 Pirates! and Pirates! Gold DOS versions pre-packaged with DOSBox.[4]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Version differences

Pirates! Gold has greatly improved graphics and sound. Digital distribution releases includes both versions of the game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
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Save game data location

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System Location

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

300px
Graphics settings (GOG.com version)

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German

Issues unresolved

Pirates! Gold original Windows version on 64-bit Windows

The original Windows version of Pirates! Gold is a 16-bit Windows 3.x game so cannot be used on 64-bit versions of Windows without workarounds (e.g. virtualization). The easiest solution is to use the DOS version in DOSBox. Digital distribution releases are pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3][4]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes CGA, EGA, VGA, SVGA CGA and EGA are only supported for the original release. VGA and SVGA are only supported for the Gold release.
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 3.1 6.22
Processor (CPU) Intel 386 16 MHz (Pirates! Gold)
System memory (RAM) 2 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 20 MB
Video card (GPU) CGA (Pirates!)
VGA (Pirates! Gold) 		EGA (Pirates!)
SVGA (Pirates! Gold)

References