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Anvil of Dawn

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Anvil of Dawn
Anvil of Dawn cover
Developers
DreamForge Intertainment
Publishers
New World Computing
Release dates
DOS October 31, 1995
Windows (DOSBox) May 14, 2013[1]
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Anvil of Dawn on Wikipedia

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 Disc check. Install in DOSBox and use the Version 1.1 patch.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[2]
Windows
Ubisoft Store
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Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest retail patch is Version 1.1. The GOG.com version already has this patch.

Skip intro videos

Use replacement LOGOS.DFA

Use the Anvil of Dawn intro skip.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\DATA\OPTIONS.DAT
Windows <path-to-game>\DATA\OPTIONS.DAT[Note 1]<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SAVES\
Windows <path-to-game>\SAVES\[Note 1]
<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
Automaps are saved to <path-to-game>\AUTOMAPS\
To save automaps to file go to Options (F3) and choose Output to Disk. To print automaps see automap printing.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Ubisoft Connect

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Russian
1) Unofficial translation by «Fargus Multimedia».
2) Fan translation by Pavel Borisov (pavel04).

Issues fixed

Automap printing

Official DOSBox builds don't support printing.
Enable printer support[3]
  1. Set up DOSBox printer support. For the GOG.com version the file to edit is dosboxAnvil.conf in the installation folder.
  2. Automaps can now be printed when automap output is set to Output to Printer in Options (F3).

Other information

Mods

An unofficial Map Editor is available.

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) 486/33
System memory (RAM) 450k of conventional memory and 2900k of Extended (XMS) or Expanded (EMS) memory
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 MB (Minimum Installation) 30 MB (Maximum Installation)
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 9 compatible

Notes

  1. ↑ 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).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data.

References