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Alien Cabal

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Alien Cabal
Alien Cabal cover
Developers
QASoft
Release dates
DOS 1997
Windows November 30, 1998[1]

Key points

Re-released as a free download.[2] Level editor source code is also available.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
Official website
DRM-free
Freeware version.
DOS
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Patches are available for the retail and shareware versions (the freeware version is already patched).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\ACABAL.CFG
Windows <path-to-game>\Acabal.ini[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SAVE****.ACG
Windows <path-to-game>\AC95****.ACG[Note 1]

Video

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Output is stretched from 4:3.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Toggle with Alt+ Enter (when using DOSBox). Set in Acabal.ini for the Windows version.
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

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
True for Windows, false for DOS.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 6 [3]
DOS video modes
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) MS-DOS 5.0
Processor (CPU) 100 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 45 MB
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 233
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 6.0 compatible


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).

References

  1. Alien Cabal - last accessed on May 2023
  2. DOS Games at Old School DOS - last accessed on May 2023
  3. 3.0 3.1 Support