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Arctic Adventure

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Arctic Adventure
Arctic Adventure cover
Developers
Apogee Software
Engines
FAST[1]
Release dates
DOS October 9, 1991[1]
Windows (DOSBox) October 23, 2014[2]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) May 5, 2015[3]
Taxonomy
Monetization Freeware
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Side view
Controls Direct control
Genres Platform
Themes Arctic
Series Nevada Smith
Arctic Adventure on HowLongToBeat
Arctic Adventure on IGDB
Arctic Adventure on MobyGames
Arctic Adventure on Wikipedia
Nevada Smith
Pharaoh's Tomb 1990
Arctic Adventure 1991

Arctic Adventure is a singleplayer side view platform game in the Nevada Smith series.

Re-released as freeware on March 20, 2009.[4]

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
Developer website
DRM-free
Free. Requires e.g. DOSBox to get running.
DOS
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Windows
Developer website (unavailable)
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Windows
macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Run in DOSBox

To run correctly in DOSBox, set cycles=5000 since auto or max may cause the game to not start. Leave all other DOSBox settings at their defaults.[5]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\AA*.CFG
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358170/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\AA*.SAV
<path-to-game>\AA*.HS
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358170/pfx/[Note 2]
AA*.SAV stores save data.
AA*.HS stores high scores.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
320x200 only.
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
On/off only; toggle with F1.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Everything is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 3.0
Processor (CPU) 8086
System memory (RAM) 384 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) CGA


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data.
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/358170/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (358170) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References