Difference between revisions of "Mathica"
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Latest revision as of 23:58, 7 January 2024
Developers | |
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BrainGame Development | |
Publishers | |
BrainGame Publishing GmbH | |
Release dates | |
Windows | November 4, 2002 |
macOS (OS X) | Unknown |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Perspectives | First-person |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | Adventure, Educational |
Art styles | Stylized |
Series | Heureka Classics |
⤏ Go to series page | |
Opera Fatal | 1996 |
Physikus 2 | 2003 |
Historion 2 | 2003 |
Mathica | 2002 |
Chemicus 2 | 2002 |
Technicus | 2005 |
Geograficus | 2003 |
Physikus | 1999 |
Historion | 2002 |
Informaticus | 2003 |
Mission: Schatztaucher | 2003 |
Mission: Amazonas | 2005 |
Chemicus | 2001 |
Biolab | 2004 |
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | The 2nd CD-ROM is required while playing, but only because it contains all the graphics and animations of the game. |
- Available at the official online shop.
Essential improvements
Videos not playing (properly)
Adjust Quicktime settings |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Mathica.ini[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\mathica.rup[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | The only available resolution is 800x600. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Always runs in a borderless fullscreen window. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | All graphics are prerendered and the cutscenes run at ~31 FPS. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
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 |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Master volume can be adjusted. However, the narrator can only be switched on or off. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | Video sequences are paused automatically. | |
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English | ||||
German |
Issues fixed
Item gets stuck on the cursor
- Throughout the game you will encounter a snack bar owner to whom you have to bring an item. However, the item may get stuck on your cursor.
The exact cause of this issue is currently unknown, but it may be necessary to let the character animation complete before clicking any item. If you run into this issue you can't do anything except reloading a previous savegame. |
Quicktime can't find video files
- During certain parts of the game a Windows Explorer message may pop up stating that Quicktime couldn't find the video file the game wants to play back.
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Other information
API
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||
macOS (OS X) |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Cutscenes | QuickTime | Version 6.52. Game disc contains installer. |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98SE | 7 |
Processor (CPU) | Pentium III 500 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 150 MB |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 8.6 | Mac OS X 10.2 - 10.6.8 |
Processor (CPU) | PowerPC G3 400 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 150 MB |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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).