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Tass Times in Tonetown

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Revision as of 09:38, 5 September 2021 by Garrett (talk | contribs) (→‎DOSBox serial mouse support: changed Daum to DOSBox-X--Daum is not updated any more (DOSBox Staging does not seem to have serial mouse support at this time))
Tass Times in Tonetown
Tass Times in Tonetown cover
Developers
Interplay Entertainment
Brainwave Creations
Publishers
Activision
Release dates
PC booter 1986
Mac OS (Classic) 1986
Tass Times in Tonetown on MobyGames
Tass Times in Tonetown on Wikipedia

Key points

Requires serial mouse (see DOSBox serial mouse support).

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
Prompts for answers from exclusive newspaper.
PC booter
Mac OS

Essential improvements

DOSBox serial mouse support

This game requires a serial mouse (not supported in the official DOSBox builds).
Use DOSBox-X[1]
  1. Download DOSBox-X.
  2. Edit the DOSBox-X configuration file.
  3. Change serial1=dummy to serial1=serialmouse
  4. Save your changes and close the file.
  5. Run the game using DOSBox-X. The mouse will now work in-game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
PC booter A:\
B:\
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System Location
PC booter A:\
B:\
Mac OS (Classic)

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
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
120+ FPS

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
All speech is text-based.
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 CGA, CGA Composite

System requirements

PC booter
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 1.0
Processor (CPU) Intel 8088
System memory (RAM) 128 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 550 KB
Video card (GPU) CGA, CGA Composite


References

  1. Verified by User:Garrett on 5 September 2021