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{{Availability/row| Retail | | physical | Use [[DOSBox]]. Windows 3.x version [[#Windows 3.x version on 64-bit Windows|will not work on 64-bit Windows]]. | | DOS, Windows 3.x, Mac OS }}
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{{Availability/row| GOG.com | pirates_gold_plus | physical | Bundled with [[Sid Meier's Pirates!]] DOS version pre-packaged with [[DOSBox]].<ref name="GOG.com">[https://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_gog_games_using_dosbox/page1 List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com]</ref> | | Windows, OS X, Linux }}
 
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{{Availability/row| Steam | 327380 | Steam, physical | Bundled with [[Sid Meier's Pirates!]] DOS version pre-packaged with [[DOSBox]].<ref name="Steam">[https://steamdb.info/app/327380/config/ Pirates! Gold Plus (Classic) · Sid Meier's Pirates! Gold Plus (Classic) · AppID: 327380 · Steam Database]</ref> | | Windows, OS X, Linux }}
 
{{Availability/row| Steam | 327380 | Steam, physical | Bundled with [[Sid Meier's Pirates!]] DOS version pre-packaged with [[DOSBox]].<ref name="Steam">[https://steamdb.info/app/327380/config/ Pirates! Gold Plus (Classic) · Sid Meier's Pirates! Gold Plus (Classic) · AppID: 327380 · Steam Database]</ref> | | Windows, OS X, Linux }}

Revision as of 03:10, 28 May 2019

Pirates! Gold
Pirates! Gold cover
Developers
MicroProse
Release dates
DOS 1993
Windows 3.x February 19, 1994
Mac OS (Classic) 1994
Windows July 17, 2012
macOS (OS X) November 29, 2012[1]
Linux July 24, 2014[2]
Pirates! Gold guide on StrategyWiki
Pirates! Gold on Wikipedia
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Sid Meier's Pirates! 1987
Pirates! Gold 1993
Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004) 2004

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.
DOS
Windows 3.x
Mac OS
GOG.com
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
Bundled with Sid Meier's Pirates! DOS version pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
Bundled with Sid Meier's Pirates! DOS version pre-packaged with DOSBox.[4]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>\PIRATES*.SAV[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\pirates.hof[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Saves are named matching the slot (PIRATES0.SAV to PIRATES9.SAV).
pirates.hof contains Pirate Hall of Fame data.
This game does not store any settings.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA, SVGA
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using winevdm.
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) Intel 386 16 MHz
System memory (RAM) 2 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 20 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA
Windows 3.x
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 3.1
Processor (CPU) 386
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 25 MB
Video card (GPU) 256 colors

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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