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Star Fleet I: The War Begins!

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Star Fleet I: The War Begins!
Star Fleet I: The War Begins! cover
Developers
Cygnus
Publishers
Cygnus
Interstel Corporation
Release dates
DOS April 5, 1985
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Series Star Fleet
Star Fleet I: The War Begins! on MobyGames
Star Fleet I: The War Begins! on Wikipedia
Star Fleet
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
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS

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
DOS

Save game data location

System Location
DOS

Video

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

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
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 2.0
Processor (CPU) 8088
System memory (RAM) 128 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD)


References