Wishbone Activity Zone

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Wishbone
Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey	1996
Wishbone Activity Zone	1997

Wishbone Activity Zone is a singleplayer side view and top-down view educational and puzzle game in the Wishbone series.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		See Run without a CD.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\CONFIG.APP^{[Note 2]}
Mac OS (Classic)

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\*.log^{[Note 2]} <path-to-game>\scores.dat^{[Note 2]}
Mac OS (Classic)

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		640x480 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Prone to graphical issues.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Enable the following compatibility settings for `<path-to-game>\WISHBONE.EXE`: `Run in 256 colors`/`Reduced color mode (8-bit 256)` and `Run in 640x480 screen resolution`^[3]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
WinG

Executable	PPC	16-bit	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Copy files from the CD^[3]

Create an empty folder in any location and name it. This will be the <path-to-game>.
In the CD directory, copy MAINRSRC to <path-to-game>.
Download, extract, and run Universal Extractor 2.
In the Archive/Installer field, write the path to DATA.Z on the CD.
In the Destination directory field, write <path-to-game> and click Ok.
A command-line window will appear with lettered options for overwriting existing files. Type s and press ↵ Enter.
Create an empty text file in <path-to-game> named CONFIG.APP.
Open CONFIG.APP in a text editor and type the entirety of <path-to-game> in the 8.3 filename convention, followed by a \ (example: C:\My Games\Wishbone Activity Zone converts to C:\MYGAME~1\WISHBO~1\).
Save the change to CONFIG.APP.
Download WinG and extract WING32.DLL to %WINDIR%\SysWOW64.
Run the game with <path-to-game>\WISHBONE.EXE.

Windows
	Minimum^[4]
Operating system (OS)	3.1, 95
Processor (CPU)	Intel i486DX 66 MHz Intel Pentium 75 MHz
System memory (RAM)	8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	10 MB
Video card (GPU)	SVGA
Other	2x CD-ROM drive

↑ RSPiX engine build: 2.0^[1]
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

↑ Verified by User:Mystyle48 on 2024-03-24
Opening WISHBONE.EXE in ImHex and going to address 0x00058A70 reveals the following string: RSPiX 2.0 �1996
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 PALLADIUM LAUNCHES WISHBONETM ACTIVITY ZONE CD-ROM WITH PARENT-APPROVED, KID-FRIENDLY WEB SITE (retrieved) - last accessed on 2024-08-03
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Verified by User:Mystyle48 on 2024-09-01
Tested on Windows XP SP3 and Windows 11 23H2.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 S Y S T E M R E Q U I R E M E N T S (retrieved) - last accessed on 2024-03-24

Developers

	Riedel Software Productions
Publishers
	Palladium Interactive
Engines
	RSPiX^{[Note 1]}
Release dates
Windows 3.x (Win32s)	September 4, 1997^[2]
Windows	September 4, 1997^[2]
Mac OS (Classic)	September 4, 1997^[2]
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Side view, Top-down view
Controls	Direct control, Menu-based
Genres	Educational, Puzzle
Art styles	Cartoon
Themes	Contemporary, Medieval, Western
Series	Wishbone