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Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold

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Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold cover
Developers
JAM Productions
Publishers
Original Apogee Software
Current Apogee Entertainment
Engines
Wolfenstein 3D engine
Release dates
DOS December 3, 1993[1]
Windows (DOSBox) March 10, 2009[2]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) June 18, 2013[3]
Linux (DOSBox) July 24, 2014[4]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, FPS, Shooter
Themes Sci-fi
Series Blake Stone
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Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold on Wikipedia
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Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold is a singleplayer first-person action, FPS and shooter game in the Blake Stone series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Floppies or CD-ROM. See run in DOSBox (retail).
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[5]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
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Pre-packaged with DOSBox. Also sold as part of The Apogee Throwback Pack.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Windows
Official website (unavailable)
DRM-free
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest retail patch is v3.0. Digital distribution versions are already fully patched.

BStone

BStone is a native port of the engine source code with support for higher resolutions and other features. Linux users should download the hosted precompiled version if you do not wish to compile the software from source code and extract bstone bin file into the installation folder. A conservative fork exists called NakedStone.

Skip intro videos

Use bstone with the --no_screens command line argument.

Run in DOSBox (retail)

To run Blake Stone correctly in DOSBox change cycles=auto to cycles=max. Leave all other DOSBox settings at their defaults.[6]

WDC game editor

WDC supports editing maps, enemies, music and many other game features. You must start a new game for the map changes to take effect.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\CONFIG.BS6
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358190/pfx/[Note 2]
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SAVEGAM*.BS6
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Steam <path-to-game>\Blake Stone - Aliens of Gold\SAVEGAM*.BS6
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358190/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

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
Frame rate is capped at 70 FPS.

Input

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
On/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Dialogue is text-only (enemy taunts etc. are not subtitled).
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
ExecutablePPC 32-bit 64-bitARM Notes
Linux
PowerPC requires the Bstone source port[7] or a PPC DOSbox installation different from that of GOG.com.

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) 386/20
System memory (RAM) 640K of conventional memory
Hard disk drive (HDD) 8 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA
Sound (audio device) Sound Blaster, Ad Lib compatible
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
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 (Snow Leopard) or later
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 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 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/358190/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (358190) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References