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Revision as of 10:07, 8 March 2021
Developers | |
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Cygnus | |
Publishers | |
Cygnus | |
Interstel Corporation | |
Release dates | |
DOS | April 5, 1985 |
Taxonomy | |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Series | Star Fleet |
Star Fleet | |
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Star Fleet I: The War Begins! | 1984 |
Empire: Wargame of the Century | 1987 |
Star Fleet II: Krellan Commander | 1989 |
Star Legions | 1992 |
Star Fleet I: The War Begins! is a singleplayer game in the Star Fleet series.
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail |
Essential improvements
Savefile corruption with DOSBox
DOSBox up to and including version 0.74.3 will corrupt your save files due to an FCB issue. You need to use DOSBox SVN or one of the DOSBox forks. If you already started your game and saved it, you should re-install the game and start from scratch.
Problem installing and running
This game was released before HDD's where common, and the game was meant to be run from diskette. It will want to copy system files to the 360KB diskette to make it bootable, which will fail with anything but the oldest DOS versions (3.0 or older) as there is not enough space.
In addition the CYGNUS.COM launcher program is buggy and should be avoided. One of the issues is that it always first changes the active drive to A: and then tries to run the game. Which will fail if you copied the game to your HDD. The CYGNUS.COM launcher is also very sensitive to memory layout, and will simply not work in DOSBox unless you boot DOS first.
To circumvent these issues, simply copy the contents of the diskette to a directory on your HDD. And instead of using the CYGNUS.COM program to launch the game, use BEGIN.EXE to start the game in normal mode, or BEGINS.EXE to start the game in "small" mode.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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DOS |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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DOS |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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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 and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | |||
Ray tracing (RT) |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Remapping | For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds). | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
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 | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file. |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
DOS video modes | Text |
System requirements
DOS | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 2.0 | |
Processor (CPU) | 8088 | |
System memory (RAM) | 128 KB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |