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Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed

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Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed
Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed cover
Developers
Strategic Simulations Inc.
Engines
Gold Box
Release dates
DOS 1992
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives First-person
Genres RPG
Themes Sci-fi
Series Buck Rogers, Gold Box
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Buck Rogers
Subseries of Gold Box
Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday 1990
Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed 1992

Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed is a singleplayer first-person RPG game in the Buck Rogers and Gold Box series.

General information

Characters and saved games can be imported from Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
Run in DOSBox.
DOS

Gold Box Companion

Gold Box Companion is a program for Windows that adds various optional features when playing the DOS version in DOSBox (automap, party HUD, character editing, etc.)

Sound Effects and Music

Gold Box Sound Hacks allows for Tandy sound effects while using Adlib or Roland MT-32 for music.

Enable PCjr/Tandy sound on DOSBox

Most later releases are configured to use PC speaker sound. DOSBox can be set to emulate the additional sound hardware of PCjr/Tandy systems and the game configured to use PCjr/Tandy for sound instead of more primitive PC speaker.
Edit the configuration file of DOSBox in the installation folder[citation needed]
  1. Open the configuration file of DOSBox and seek tandy setting under [speaker] section. This setting is usually tandy=auto. Change the setting to tandy=on and save the changes.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\MATRIX.CFG

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SAVE\
The default save folder can be changed by editing MATRIX.CFG.
Saves are SAVGAMA.DAT to SAVGAMJ.DAT.
Character files are *.WHO. Character files are only present when that character is not part of a party in a save file.

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
320x200 only.
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

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
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

System requirements

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


References