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Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist

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Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist cover
Developers
Sierra On-Line
Publishers
Retail Sierra On-Line
Digital Activision
Engines
SCI1.1
Release dates
DOS 1993
Windows 3.x 1993
Mac OS (Classic) 1993
Windows (DOSBox) February 2, 2017[1]
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Art styles Cartoon, Pixel art
Themes Comedy, North America, Western
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Warnings

The Windows 3.x version of this game does not work on 64-bit versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).

Key points

Can be played on ScummVM.

General information

The Sierra Chest entry
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
DOS
Windows 3.x
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Windows
Demos are available from ScummVM.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Video

General settings.
General settings.

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)
ScummVM has several modes available for smoothing graphics.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file.
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
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes MCGA, EGA, VGA
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using ScummVM.
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) Intel i386
System memory (RAM) 640 kB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) MCGA, EGA
Windows 3.x
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 3.1
Processor (CPU) Intel i486DX
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) VGA, 256 colors
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7.0
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 10 MB
Video card (GPU) 256 color


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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).

References