California Games

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California Games

Developers
	Epyx
Publishers
	Epyx
Steam	Pixel Games UK
Release dates
DOS	1988
Windows	September 7, 2020

California Games
Subseries of Games (Epyx)
California Games	1988
California Games II	1990
California Games (2009)	2009

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Steam

Essential improvements

Insufficient memory

If you receive the error "YOU NEED MORE MEMORY TO RUN CALIFORNIA GAMES!" when starting the game, especially if your running the game from DOSBox, instead of trying to make more memory available for the program per its recommendations, try to first run LOADFIX. LOADFIX is included with DOS 5.0 or later, and is also included with DOSBox.

If LOADFIX does not resolve the problem, which is more typical of running the game on a retro PC, you do need to make more usable memory available.

Cannot input player name

The game was written for the keyboard of the original IBM XT machines, and has problems with the IBM AT style Enhanced keyboard.

Use DOSBox
Notes With DOSBox this can be worked around by setting the machine type to hercules, cga or tandy as those machine types emulate an XT style keyboard controller. Tandy is probably the best option and will give EGA-like graphics.

Use CONFIG.SYS option
Notes When running the game on a real DOS PC with AT or PS/2 keyboard, add the line "SWITCHES=/K" to your CONFIG.SYS. This option is supported in DOS 5.0 and later, but is not supported by DOSBox.

Patch the game
Notes A patch was posted on Vogons by user Pantercat which allows the game to run with a AT Enhanced keyboard.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
DOS
Windows
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1399480/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
DOS
Windows
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1399480/pfx/

Video

Graphic capability options

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		For DOSBox toggle with Alt+↵ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus		No mouse support.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
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
English

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes	CGA, EGA, Hercules, MCGA, Tandy, PCjr

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

DOS

Windows

DOS
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	2.0
Processor (CPU)	Intel 8088 / 8086
System memory (RAM)	512 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD)

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	10
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)