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Key points
- Characters can be transferred from Pool of Radiance, Hillsfar, and Gateway to the Savage Frontier (see Transfer characters).
General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
Availability
- The retail version requires the Translation Wheel to answer copy protection questions. The GOG.com version has the copy protection cracked (anything will be accepted).[2]
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Edit CURSE.CFG[3]
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- Go to the installation folder.
- Edit
CURSE.CFG .
- Change
F to N .
Notes
- The Advanced Dungeons & Dragons splash screen will still be shown.
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Skip Translation Wheel prompts
Launch with start.exe STING Wooden parameter[4]
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Run the game with start.exe STING Wooden
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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, raising level restrictions, character editing, etc.)
Sound Effects
Ensure tandy=on under [Speaker] in the DOSBox configuration file to allow for Tandy rather than PC Speaker sound effects.
Transfer characters
- Characters can be transferred from Pool of Radiance and Hillsfar.
- Gateway to the Savage Frontier characters are also compatible (this is not officially supported).[5]
Instructions[3]
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- For Pool of Radiance, if a character you want is currently part of a saved game, load that save in Pool of Radiance, go to the Training Hall, then Remove (not Drop) the character and save your game (otherwise that character's data will be out of date).
- Run
<path-to-game>\COPYCURS.EXE to transfer files, or manually copy the character files from Pool of Radiance (*.CHA ) or Hillsfar (*.HIL ) into Curse of the Azure Bonds' <path-to-game>\SAVE\ folder.
- In Curse of the Azure Bonds, go to the Training Hall (either on an existing save or when starting a new game) and add the characters to the party.
Notes
- Characters can be freely moved between Curse of the Azure Bonds and Hillsfar, but Pool of Radiance characters cannot be transferred back. For Hillsfar, see the Hillsfar character transfer instructions.
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
- It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.
Save game data location
- The default save folder can be changed by editing
CURSE.CFG
.
- Saves are
SAVGAMA.DAT
to SAVGAMJ.DAT
.
- Character files are
*.GUY
. Character files are only present when that character is not part of a party in a save file.
Video
Input
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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On/off only (toggle with Ctrl+S). |
Surround sound |
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Subtitles |
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Everything is text-based. |
Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file. |
Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
DOS video modes |
CGA, EGA, Tandy |
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System requirements
DOS | Windows | Mac OS (Classic) | macOS (OS X) | Linux |
DOS |
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Minimum |
Operating system (OS) |
DOS 4.01 |
Processor (CPU) |
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System memory (RAM) |
512K |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
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Video card (GPU) |
CGA, EGA, Tandy |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 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