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Revision as of 03:57, 17 May 2020
Developers | |
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MicroProse | |
Release dates | |
DOS | 1992 |
Windows (DOSBox) | October 13, 2011[1] |
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) | May 9, 2013[2] |
Linux (DOSBox) | July 24, 2014[3] |
General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
- Darklands Yahoo! group
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | Floppies or CD-ROM. Use DOSBox and install the .07 Patch. | |||
GamersGate | ||||
GOG.com | ||||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam | Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[4] |
Essential improvements
Patches
The latest retail patch is .07 Patch. Patches do not integrate the previous patches and must be installed in order. The GOG.com version already has this patch.
Utilities
- Darklands All-in-One Chart v1.0 by bongo64738. An Excel spreadsheet that includes an occupations progression table, city table, potion maker and saints lists. A detailed description can be found here
- Darklands Quest Lister v.1.1 by Michael Petzold: Enables you to generate a list of your current quests from a save file. Very useful as this is the only non-manual way to track such quests.
- Darklands Map Tool by Savcho Savchev: Flash based; enables you to find towns from a clickable list. There is also a live online version.
- Darklands Saints Tool by Savcho Savchev: Flash based; enables you to view details of saints from a clickable list. Also allows you to view which saints offer particular benefits (for example, travel by water). There is also a live online version.
- Darklands Alchemy Tool by Savcho Savchev: Flash based; enables you to view details of potions from a clickable list, showing the required ingredients, quality, and risk involved. There is also a live online version.
- Character Editor v2.2 by Dan Collins ("jugglindan)": Enables you to edit characters' stats and appearances.
- Darklands Monetary Converter v1.1 by Jerry "Deth-B0y" Kelly: Enables you to convert "complex" monetary amounts (expressed in Florins, Groschen and Peffenigs) to "simple" monetary amounts (expressed in Peffenigs only) and vice versa.
- World Regeneration Tool by Dan Collins ("jugglindan)": Enables you to randomise and regenerate an existing world by rebuilding destroyed villages and other locations. Can also shuffle the world by altering the random seed used by the game to calculate item availability in various locations (saints, ingredients etc.). The seed also determines which villages and castles are good or evil.
- City Tracker Spreadsheet v1.0 by Paul Moloney: An Excel spreadsheet containing a row for each city in Darklands, showing hardcoded values (such as map coordinates, quality of blacksmith, bowyer and so on) with empty fields to fill with values particular to your instance of the game (for example, saints, formulae and physician quality).
- Darklands Editor v1.1 by Steven J. Cotellesse: Enables you to edit characters' stats (older than the Character Editor by Dan Collins and not as fully featured)
- Saints selection spreadsheet by vakarr: a fully sorted and searchable saints selection spreadsheet. It has optional filters for every characteristic or possible use. A Y/N column lets you find all the ones you have and pick the one best suited to your purpose or the one with the lowest requirements or the one with the closest saint's day.
- Darkland Explorations: A site containing details on Darklands file formats and interactive maps.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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DOS | <path-to-game>\DARKLAND.CFG |
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] |
- 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 |
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DOS | <path-to-game>\SAVES |
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] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | 320x200 only. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Set in Graphic Mode Setup (GOG.com) or toggle with Alt+↵ Enter. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds). | ||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds). | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
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 |
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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 | For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file. |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
German |
Issues fixed
Sound problems (GOG.com)
- Use this fix if the audio sounds unusual (e.g. random sounds rather than clashing weapons during combat).
Rename sound files[5] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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DOS video modes | VGA |
Simultaneous MT-32 music and SoundBlaster digital speech
- The game can be modified to support the MT-32 and SoundBlaster simultaneously.
Rename and overwrite files[6] |
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Notes
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System requirements
DOS | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 5.0 | |
Processor (CPU) | IBM 386 or compatible | IBM 486 or compatibles |
System memory (RAM) | 2 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 22 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | VGA graphics |
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | XP, Vista | |
Processor (CPU) | 1.8 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 512 MB | 1 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 82 MB | 82 MB |
Video card (GPU) | DirectX 7 compatible | DirectX 9 compatible |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) or later | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz+ | |
System memory (RAM) | 1 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | ||
Video card (GPU) | 64 MB of VRAM |
Notes
References
- ↑ New release: Darklands ● GOG.com
- ↑ Mac Game Update: 10 New Classic Additions ● GOG.com
- ↑ GOG.com Now Supports Linux! ● GOG.com
- ↑ Darklands · AppID: 327930 · Steam Database
- ↑ Problems with sound, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com
- ↑ Darklands README.TXT, "SIMULTANEOUS ROLAND & SOUND BLASTER SUPPORT"