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Thunderscape

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Thunderscape
Thunderscape cover
Developers
Strategic Simulations, Inc.
Publishers
Mindscape
Release dates
DOS 1995
Windows (DOSBox) August 22, 2013[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) November 15, 2013[2]
Thunderscape on Wikipedia
World of Aden
Thunderscape 1995
Entomorph: Plague of the Darkfall 1995

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Use DOSBox.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Use replacement 1.SMK

Apply the Thunderscape intro skip.

Patches

The v1.1 Patch fixes various issues (see README.TXT). The GOG.com version is already patched.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\OPTIONS.BIN
Windows <path-to-game>\OPTIONS.BIN[Note 1]<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
Sound card settings are stored in DIG.INI.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SAVE*\
Windows <path-to-game>\SAVE*\[Note 1]
<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
Saves are stored in folders SAVE0 to SAVE3.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.
300px
Graphics settings (GOG.com version)

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) 486/66 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 25 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 250 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.7.0
Processor (CPU) 1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 250 MB
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM

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 2.3 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data.

References