The Witness (1983)

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This page is for the 1983 text adventure game. For the unrelated 2016 puzzle game, see The Witness.

The Witness

Developers
	Infocom
Engines
	ZIL
Release dates
PC booter	June 1983
DOS	1984
Mac OS (Classic)	1984

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
PC booter
DOS
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System	Location
PC booter
DOS
Mac OS (Classic)

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

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes	Text

Middleware

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System requirements

PC booter

DOS

Mac OS (Classic)

PC booter
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)	Intel 8088 Intel 8086
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)

DOS
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	2.0	6.22
Processor (CPU)	Intel 8088 Intel 8086
System memory (RAM)	128 kB
Hard disk drive (HDD)

Mac OS
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)		9.2.2
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)