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Ancients 1: Death Watch

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Ancients 1: Death Watch
Ancients 1: Death Watch cover
Developers
Farr-Ware Software
Publishers
Epic Games
Release dates
DOS 1991
Taxonomy
Series Ancients
Ancients 1: Death Watch on MobyGames
Ancients 1: Death Watch on Wikipedia
Ancients
Ancients 1: Death Watch 1991
Ancients II: Approaching Evil 1994

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SETUP.DTA

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SAVEGAME.DTA
<path-to-game>\*.KAR
SAVEGAME.DTA contains saved progress.
*.KAR files contain saved characters (these files are only updated when a character is dropped from the current party).

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Input

Input settings.
Input settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Change with F5 during gameplay (listed as "delay").
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
Everything 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

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) 286
System memory (RAM) 640K
Hard disk drive (HDD)


References