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Star Control II

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Star Control II
Star Control II cover
Developers
Toys for Bob
Publishers
Accolade
Release dates
DOS November 30, 1992
Windows April 19, 2011[1]
macOS (OS X) November 29, 2012[2]
Star Control II on Wikipedia
Star Control
Star Control 1990
Star Control II 1992
Star Control 3 1996
The Ur-Quan Masters 2002
Star Control: Origins 2018

Key points

Available for free as The Ur-Quan Masters, which includes various enhancements and runs natively on multiple platforms.

General information

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
This game is no longer available digitally.[3][4]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358920/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358920/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Russian
Fan translation, download

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play

Other information

Command line arguments

Several commands are available. Use only one of each type.[5]
Command Description
/S:adlib Adlib sound and music
/S:internal Internal speaker sound and music
/S:silent No sound and music
/S:disney1 Disney Sound Source on Parallel Port #1
/S:disney2 Disney Sound Source on Parallel Port #2
/S:lpt1 Covox Speech Thing or other sound peripheral on parallel port #1
/S:lpt2 Covox Speech Thing or other sound peripheral on parallel port #2
/S:sblaster A Soundblaster
/S:pas A Pro Audio Spectrum
/S:sm2 A Sound Master II
/S:asc An ASC Media Master
/S:micro Microsoft Windows
/S:gravis Gravis Ultrasound
/G:bios Loads default color palette from BIOS
/spartan A "no frills" mode to allow faster play on slower machines

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM

Notes

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

References