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Gold Rush!

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This page is for the original adventure game. For the 2014 remake, see Gold Rush! Anniversary. For the unrelated mining simulator, see Gold Rush: The Game.

Gold Rush!
Gold Rush! cover
Developers
The Software Farm
Publishers
Sierra
KISS ltd
Engines
AGI3
Release dates
DOS 1988
Mac OS (Classic) 1989
Windows (DOSBox) July 25, 2014[1]
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Gold Rush! on MobyGames
Gold Rush! on Wikipedia
Gold Rush!
Gold Rush! 1988
Gold Rush! Anniversary 2014
Gold Rush! 2 2017

Key points

Later re-released as California Gold Rush! and Gold Rush! Classic.
Can be played on ScummVM.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
DOS
Mac OS
Developer website
DRM details are not known
DOS
Steam
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 DOS version pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Windows

Game data

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\GRSG.**
Windows <path-to-game>\GRSG.**[Note 1]
<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/308000/pfx/[Note 3]
Saves can be stored in any folder.
In-game settings are stored in each save rather than shared.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM user manual for details.

Video settings

Settings for Classic (<path-to-game>\Conf.exe).
Settings for Classic (<path-to-game>\Conf.exe).

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes EGA

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2.0 6.22
Processor (CPU) Intel 8088
Intel 8086
System memory (RAM) 256 kB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) Tandy/PCjr, Hercules, CGA, EGA VGA
Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 200 MHz
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 20 MB
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 512 kB
Hard disk drive (HDD)

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).
  2. ↑ File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data.
  3. ↑ Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References