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Les Manley in: Search for the King

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Les Manley in: Search for the King
Les Manley in: Search for the King cover
Developers
Accolade
Publishers
Retail Accolade
Digital Ziggurat Interactive
Release dates
DOS 1990
Windows (DOSBox) September 11, 2020[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) September 11, 2020[1]
Linux (DOSBox) September 11, 2020[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Controls Text input, Direct control
Genres Adventure
Themes Contemporary, North America
Series Les Manley
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Les Manley in: Search for the King 1990
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Les Manley in: Search for the King is a singleplayer adventure game in the Les Manley series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Prepackaged with DOSBox.
Also available in the Les Manley Bundle.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Prepackaged with DOSBox.[2]
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\KING.BAT
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/1299720/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>\*.SAV
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/1299720/pfx/[Note 2]
The default save game path can be changed.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

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
Sound can be toggled.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
This game supports the Roland MT-32 and LAPC-1 for music.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes CGA, MCGA, EGA, Tandy/PCjr, VGA

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2.0
Processor (CPU) Intel 8088/8086
System memory (RAM) 640 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) CGA, EGA, Tandy/PCjr
Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 9.0c compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.11
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 9.0c compatible
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 9.0c compatible


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.
  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>/1299720/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1299720) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References