Eye of the Beholder
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Developers | |
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Westwood Associates | |
Publishers | |
Retail | Strategic Simulations Inc. |
Digital, former | GOG.com |
Digital, current | SNEG |
Engines | |
Kyra[1] | |
Release dates | |
DOS | 1991 |
Windows (DOSBox) | August 20, 2015[2] |
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) | August 20, 2015[2] |
Linux (DOSBox) | August 20, 2015[2] |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | First-person |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | RPG |
Themes | Fantasy |
Series | Eye of the Beholder |
Eye of the Beholder | |
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Subseries of Dungeons & Dragons | |
Eye of the Beholder | 1991 |
Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon | 1991 |
Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor | 1993 |
Eye of the Beholder is a first-person dungeon crawler and RPG developed by Westwood Associates in 1991. The player controls a group of 4-6 characters and uses a point and select interface to fight monsters.
Key points
- Can be run under ScummVM.
General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions for game series
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | Run in DOSBox. | |||
GOG.com | Pre-packaged with DOSBox. Bundled with Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon and Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor. | |||
Steam | Pre-packaged with DOSBox. Bundled with Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon and Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor. |
- The retail version prompts for copy protection answers from the manual. The GOG.com version will accept any answer.[3]
Essential improvements
The All-Seeing Eye
- The All-Seeing Eye is a program for Windows that adds various optional features when playing the DOS version in DOSBox (automap, save backups, etc.)
Game data
Save game data location
System | Location |
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DOS | <path-to-game>\EOBDATA.SAV |
Windows | <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) | <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1] |
Linux | <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1] |
- It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.
-
EOBDATA.SAV
contains both settings and save data.
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
---|---|---|
GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
- ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.
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 | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
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 | For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds). |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Separate volume controls | On/off only. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file. |
|
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English | ||||
German | ||||
Russian | Fan translation, download | |||
Spanish |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
Direct3D | 7, 9 | GOG version only. |
DOS video modes | CGA, Tandy, EGA, VGA |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Windows | 64-bit support requires a 64-bit build of ScummVM. |
System requirements
DOS | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 2.1 | |
Processor (CPU) | 8088 / 8086 | |
System memory (RAM) | 640 KB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | ||
Video card (GPU) | CGA, EGA, MCGA, Tandy, VGA |
Windows | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 7, 8, 10 | |
Processor (CPU) | 1.8 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 512 MB | 1 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | DirectX 7 compatible | DirectX 9 compatible |
macOS (OS X) | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 10.7 | |
Processor (CPU) | 1.8 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 512 MB | 1 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | DirectX 7 compatible | DirectX 9 compatible |
Linux | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | Ubuntu 16.04, Mint 18 | |
Processor (CPU) | 1.8 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 512 MB | 1 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | DirectX 7 compatible | DirectX 9 compatible |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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 thecloud_saves
folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).
References
- ↑ Kyra - ScummVM :: Wiki
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Release: Forgotten Realms: The Archives - GOG.com
- ↑ NOTE: Copy protection in these games, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023