General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
- Darklands groups.io discussion group
Availability
- All versions require the manual to answer alchemy symbol copy protection challenges (for digital versions refer to
<path-to-game>\manual.pdf).[5]
Essential improvements
Patches
The latest retail patch is .07 Patch. Patches do not integrate the previous patches and must be installed in order. The GOG.com version already has this patch.
Utilities
- Darklands All-in-One Chart v1.0 by bongo64738. An Excel spreadsheet that includes an occupations progression table, city table, potion maker and saints lists. A detailed description can be found here
- Darklands Quest Lister v.1.1 by Michael Petzold: Enables you to generate a list of your current quests from a save file. Very useful as this is the only non-manual way to track such quests.
- Darklands Map Tool by Savcho Savchev: Flash based; enables you to find towns from a clickable list. There is also a live online version.
- Darklands Saints Tool by Savcho Savchev: Flash based; enables you to view details of saints from a clickable list. Also allows you to view which saints offer particular benefits (for example, travel by water). There is also a live online version.
- Darklands Alchemy Tool by Savcho Savchev: Flash based; enables you to view details of potions from a clickable list, showing the required ingredients, quality, and risk involved. There is also a live online version.
- Character Editor v2.2 by Dan Collins ("jugglindan)": Enables you to edit characters' stats and appearances.
- Darklands Monetary Converter v1.1 by Jerry "Deth-B0y" Kelly: Enables you to convert "complex" monetary amounts (expressed in Florins, Groschen and Peffenigs) to "simple" monetary amounts (expressed in Peffenigs only) and vice versa.
- World Regeneration Tool by Dan Collins ("jugglindan)": Enables you to randomise and regenerate an existing world by rebuilding destroyed villages and other locations. Can also shuffle the world by altering the random seed used by the game to calculate item availability in various locations (saints, ingredients etc.). The seed also determines which villages and castles are good or evil.
- City Tracker Spreadsheet v1.0 by Paul Moloney: An Excel spreadsheet containing a row for each city in Darklands, showing hardcoded values (such as map coordinates, quality of blacksmith, bowyer and so on) with empty fields to fill with values particular to your instance of the game (for example, saints, formulae and physician quality).
- Darklands Editor v1.1 by Steven J. Cotellesse: Enables you to edit characters' stats (older than the Character Editor by Dan Collins and not as fully featured)
- Saints selection spreadsheet by vakarr: a fully sorted and searchable saints selection spreadsheet. It has optional filters for every characteristic or possible use. A Y/N column lets you find all the ones you have and pick the one best suited to your purpose or the one with the lowest requirements or the one with the closest saint's day.
- Darkland Explorations: A site containing details on Darklands file formats and interactive maps.
- DarkLand Quest: DarkLand Quest allows you to view quests for DarkLands and see an interactive map that tracks all your quests. Developed by Alberto Pineda, maintained by Ricardo Pineda.
- Wendigo's Web-based Character Generation app: A web-based tool which simulated the Darklands character generation function enabling you to map and plan characters out.
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
Video
Input
Audio
Sound options from game's config/installation utility
Localizations
| Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
| English |
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| German |
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Issues fixed
Sound problems (GOG.com)
- Use this fix if the audio sounds unusual (e.g. random sounds rather than clashing weapons during combat).
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Rename sound files[6]
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- Rename
PSOUND.DLB to PSOUND.DLB.old
- Rename
PSOUND.DLC to PSOUND.DLC.old
- Rename
PSOUND.DB to PSOUND.DLB
- Rename
PSOUND.DC to PSOUND.DLC
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Other information
API
| Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
| DOS video modes |
VGA |
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Simultaneous MT-32 music and SoundBlaster digital speech
- The game can be modified to support the MT-32 and SoundBlaster simultaneously.
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Rename and overwrite files[7]
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- Run DOSBox and mount the game as normal
- Go to
<path-to-game>.
- Run the following commands:
COPY PSOUND.DLC PSOUND.DC
COPY PSOUND.DLB PSOUND.DB
COPY ASOUND.DLC ASOUND.DC
COPY ASOUND.DLB ASOUND.DB
COPY RSOUND.DLC PSOUND.DLC
COPY RSOUND.DLB PSOUND.DLB
COPY RSOUND.DLC ASOUND.DLC
COPY RSOUND.DLB ASOUND.DLB
- Run
INSTALL.EXE
- Selected
Reconfigure hardware option(s)
- Ensure a non-Roland soundcard is selected (such as the SoundBlaster).
- Save and exit
INSTALL.EXE
Notes
- Roland MT-32 music will not be correct unless you configure either a real MT-32 or an MT-32 emulator to run in DOSBox.
- To restore normal functionality, run the following commands in DOSBox:
COPY PSOUND.DLC PSOUND.DC
COPY PSOUND.DLB PSOUND.DB
COPY ASOUND.DLC ASOUND.DC
COPY ASOUND.DLB ASOUND.DB
COPY RSOUND.DLC PSOUND.DLC
COPY RSOUND.DLB PSOUND.DLB
COPY RSOUND.DLC ASOUND.DLC
COPY RSOUND.DLB ASOUND.DLB
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System requirements
| DOS | Windows | macOS (OS X) | Linux |
| DOS |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
| Operating system (OS) |
5.0 | |
| Processor (CPU) |
IBM 386 or compatible
| IBM 486 or compatibles |
| System memory (RAM) |
2 MB | |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) |
22 MB | |
| Video card (GPU) |
VGA graphics | |
| Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
| Operating system (OS) |
XP, Vista | |
| Processor (CPU) |
1.8 GHz | |
| System memory (RAM) |
512 MB |
1 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) |
82 MB |
82 MB |
| Video card (GPU) |
DirectX 7 compatible
| DirectX 9 compatible |
| macOS (OS X) |
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Minimum |
| Operating system (OS) |
10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) or later |
| Processor (CPU) |
Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz+ |
| System memory (RAM) |
1 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) |
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| Video card (GPU) |
64 MB of VRAM |
Notes
References
