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Airline Tycoon Deluxe

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Airline Tycoon Deluxe
Airline Tycoon Deluxe cover
Developers
Spellbound Entertainment
Publishers
Black Forest Games
RuneSoft
HandyGames
Release dates
Windows October 5, 2003
macOS (OS X) November 28, 2005
Linux January 2006
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Scrolling, Side view
Controls Point and select
Genres Business
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Contemporary
Series Airline Tycoon
Airline Tycoon Deluxe on MobyGames
Airline Tycoon Deluxe on Wikipedia
Airline Tycoon
Airline Tycoon 1998
Airline Tycoon First Class 1999
Airline Tycoon Evolution 2002
Airline Tycoon Deluxe 2003
Airline Tycoon 2 2011

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Amazon.com
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
GamersGate
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Linux
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Humble Store
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac App Store
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macOS (OS X)
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Epic Games Store (unavailable)
DRM details are not known
Available on April 22, 2022.
Windows
GamersGate (unavailable)
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
macOS (OS X)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Spellbound Software\Airline Tycoon Deluxe\1.0\
macOS (OS X)
Linux $HOME/.AirlineTycoonDeluxeconfig.ini
$HOME/.AirlineTycoonDeluxe/language.ini
This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Savegame\Game*.dat[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\Myplanes\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux $HOME/.AirlineTycoonDeluxe/
Saves are game0.dat to game11.dat.
Myplanes folder saves planes made by the player or downloaded from official servers.

Save game cloud syncing

Video

Graphics settings menu.
Graphics settings menu.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See Windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Gameplay is capped at 20 FPS.

Windowed

Launch the game with /window attribute
  1. Right-click to Desktop and choose Properties.
  2. In Settings tab, choose 16-bit color quality and click OK.
  3. Right-click on shortcut and choose Properties.
  4. In the Target area, add /window.
Use DxWnd
  1. Download DxWnd.
  2. Add a profile for <path-to-game>\At.exe.
  3. Tick Run in window in Main tab.

Notes

Does not require setting 16-bit color quality in system settings.
Enable borderless windowed mode by checking Modal Style in Video tab.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Sound settings menu.
Sound settings menu.

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
French
German
Polish
Fan translation based on official localizations of Airline Tycoon and Airline Tycoon Evolution, download. Original and Evolution voices can be selected during the installation.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
4 Windows only
Online play

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bitARM Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
ARM support was added to Mac App Store in version 1.27
Linux

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Smacker

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) 90 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 400 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7.0 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.7
Processor (CPU) 133 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 600 MB
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 14.04
Processor (CPU) 133 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 600 MB


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References