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Dragon Wars

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Dragon Wars
Dragon Wars cover
Developers
Interplay Entertainment
Release dates
DOS 1990
Windows May 28, 2015[1]
macOS (OS X) May 28, 2015[1]
Linux May 28, 2015[1]
Dragon Wars on Wikipedia

Key points

Characters can be imported from The Bard's Tale and The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
Manual required for progression. Run in DOSBox.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[2]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Settings are stored in DRAGON.COM which is also the main executable.
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings (see Change startup settings).
General settings (see Change startup settings).

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Change startup settings

The startup settings are not shown again after being saved.
Use CONFIG command line parameter[3]
  1. Edit the DOSBox configuration file (<path-to-game>\dosboxDragonWars_single.conf for the GOG.com version)
  2. Change DRAGON to DRAGON CONFIG
  3. Save your changes and close the file. The startup settings will now be shown every time.

Notes

To reverse this change simply change DRAGON CONFIG back to DRAGON

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes CGA, Tandy, EGA
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) CGA
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10
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) 10.7.0
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 17
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) OpenGL
256 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/624070/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (624070) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References