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Private Eye

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Private Eye
Private Eye cover
Developers
Brooklyn Multimedia
Publishers
United States Simon & Schuster Interactive
Europe Infogrames
Japan Riverhill Soft
Release dates
Windows 3.x 1996
Windows 1996
Mac OS (Classic) 1997
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Genres Adventure
Themes Detective/mystery, North America
Private Eye on IGDB
Private Eye on MobyGames
Private Eye on Wikipedia

Private Eye is a singleplayer adventure game.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows 3.x
Windows
Mac OS

Demo

Demos are available from ScummVM.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game cloud syncing

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
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using ScummVM.
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows 3.x
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 3.1
Processor (CPU) Intel i486 66 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 MB
Video card (GPU) SVGA graphics card
Sound (audio device) Sound Blaster-compatible sound card
Other 2x CD-ROM drive
Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 640x480 resolution
Mac OS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7.1 9.2.2
Processor (CPU) Motorola 68040 PowerPC
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 256 colors
Other 2x CD-ROM drive


References