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Revision as of 20:14, 27 October 2022

Gobliiins
Gobliiins cover
Developers
Coktel Vision
DOS M.D.O.
Publishers
DOS Sierra On-Line
Mac OS Coktel Vision
Windows DotEmu
Engines
Gob
Release dates
Mac OS (Classic) 1991
DOS 1992
Windows (ScummVM) March 23, 2010
Taxonomy
Series Gobliiins
Gobliiins on HowLongToBeat
Gobliiins on IGDB
Gobliiins on MobyGames
Gobliiins on Wikipedia
Gobliiins
Gobliiins 1991
Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon 1992
Goblins Quest 3 1993
Gobliiins 4 2009
Gobliiins 5 2023

Key points

Can be run under ScummVM.

General information

The Sierra Help Pages entry
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with ScummVM. Comes bundled with Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon and Goblins Quest 3. Can choose between the floppy disk and CD-ROM release.
Windows
A demo is available from ScummVM.

Essential improvements

Running the game through DOSBox or ScummVM makes the game playable on modern hardware and operating systems. There are extra features like screen scaling and volume sliders.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Gobliiins1.ini[Note 1]
This configuration file is only for the GOG.com version.
Game progress is saved through passwords.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
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
320x200 only.
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)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

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

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
See Essential improvements.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio
CD-ROM release only; see ScummVM readme for how to use with ScummVM.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Spoken language is made-up
Russian
Unofficial translation by "Taralej & Jabocrack"

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes CGA, EGA, VGA
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
64-bit requires 64-bit build of ScummVM.
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) Intel 386 16 MHz
System memory (RAM) 2 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3.5 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 80 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible


Notes

  1. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References