Wishbone Activity Zone
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Developers | |
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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 |
Wishbone | |
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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 |
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Retail | See Run without a CD. |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\CONFIG.APP[Note 2] |
Mac OS (Classic) |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\*.log[Note 2] <path-to-game>\scores.dat[Note 2] |
Mac OS (Classic) |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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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) |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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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 |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English |
Issues fixed
"This application requires that the display be set to 256 color mode!"
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]
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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WinG |
Executable | PPC | 16-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||||
Mac OS (Classic) |
Run without a CD
Copy files from the CD[3] |
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System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum[4] | ||
Operating system (OS) | 3.1, 95 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel i486DX 66 MHz Intel Pentium 75 MHz |
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System memory (RAM) | 8 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 10 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | SVGA | |
Other | 2x CD-ROM drive |
Mac OS | ||
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Minimum[4] | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 7.1.1 | |
Processor (CPU) | Motorola 68040 33 MHz PowerPC 601 60 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 8 MB | 12 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 10 MB | |
Other | 2x CD-ROM drive |
Notes
- ↑ 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).
References
- ↑ 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
- Opening
- ↑ 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