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'''Key points'''
 
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{{Availability|
 
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{{Availability/row| Retail | | unknown | Use [[DOSBox]]. | | DOS }}
 
{{Availability/row| Retail | | unknown | Use [[DOSBox]]. | | DOS }}
{{Availability/row| GOG.com | catacombs_pack | DRM-free | Entire series. Pre-packaged with [[DOSBox]].<ref>[https://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_gog_games_using_dosbox/page1 List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com]</ref> | | Windows, OS X }}
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{{Availability/row| GOG.com | catacombs_pack | DRM-free | Entire series. Pre-packaged with [[DOSBox]].<ref>{{Refurl|url=https://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_gog_games_using_dosbox/page1|title=List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com|date=May 2023}}</ref> | | Windows, OS X }}
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==Source Ports==
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The release of the source code has allowed for source ports that make the game to be playable on modern systems, whilst also fixing bugs and adding other quality-of-life additions.
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{{Source ports table/row| Reflection-HLE | url=https://github.com/ReflectionHLE/ReflectionHLE | Port for Keen Dreams, as well as Catacomb 3D, the Catacomb Adventure Series, Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny and Super 3D Noah's Ark created by NY00123 | Windows, Linux, Android}}
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{{Source ports table/row| CatacombGL | url=https://github.com/ArnoAnsems/CatacombGL | Port of the Catacomb 3D games to OpenGL. | Windows, Linux }}
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Latest revision as of 22:23, 9 May 2023

Catacomb 3-D: The Descent
Catacomb 3-D: The Descent cover
Developers
id Software
Publishers
Flat Rock Software
Release dates
DOS 1991
Windows (DOSBox) March 14, 2013[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) March 14, 2013[1]
Taxonomy
Series Catacomb
Catacomb 3-D: The Descent on MobyGames
Catacomb 3-D: The Descent on Wikipedia
Catacomb
Catacomb 1989
The Catacomb 1991
Catacomb 3-D: The Descent 1991
Catacomb Abyss 1992
Catacomb Armageddon 1993
Catacomb Apocalypse 1993

Key points

Source code is available.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Use DOSBox.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Entire series. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[2]
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Source Ports

The release of the source code has allowed for source ports that make the game to be playable on modern systems, whilst also fixing bugs and adding other quality-of-life additions.

Name Description
Reflection-HLE Port for Keen Dreams, as well as Catacomb 3D, the Catacomb Adventure Series, Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny and Super 3D Noah's Ark created by NY00123
Windows
Linux
Android
CatacombGL Port of the Catacomb 3D games to OpenGL.
Windows
Linux

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

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
120+ FPS
Frame rate is capped at 60 FPS (EGA) or 70 FPS (VGA).[3]

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes EGA, VGA

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) 4 MHz Intel 286
System memory (RAM) 640 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 MB
Video card (GPU) EGA Compatible
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
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

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).

References