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Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday

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Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday
Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday cover
Developers
Strategic Simulations, Inc.
Engines
Gold Box
Release dates
DOS 1990
Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday on Wikipedia
Buck Rogers
Subseries of Gold Box
Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday 1990
Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed 1992
Subseries of Dungeons & Dragons
Pool of Radiance (series)
Curse of the Azure Bonds 1989
Secret of the Silver Blades 1990
Buck Rogers (series)
Champions of Krynn 1990
Neverwinter Nights 1991
Pools of Darkness 1991
Gateway to the Savage Frontier 1991
Death Knights of Krynn 1991
The Dark Queen of Krynn 1992
Treasures of the Savage Frontier 1992
Spelljammer: Pirates of Realmspace 1992
Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures 1993

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
Run in DOSBox.
DOS

Essential improvements

Gold Box Companion

Gold Box Companion is a program for Windows that adds various optional features when playing the DOS version in DOSBox (automap, party HUD, character editing, etc.)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\BUCK.CFG

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SAVE\
The default save folder can be changed by editing BUCK.CFG.
Saves are SAVGAMA.DAT to SAVGAMJ.DAT.
Character files are *.WHO. Character files are only present when that character is not part of a party in a save file.

Video settings

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)

References