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Ishar 3: The Seven Gates of Infinity

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Ishar 3: The Seven Gates of Infinity
Ishar 3: The Seven Gates of Infinity cover
Developers
Silmarils
Publishers
Mac OS ReadySoft
Release dates
DOS 1993
Mac OS (Classic) 1994
Windows (DOSBox) July 2, 2009[1]
Taxonomy
Series Ishar
Ishar 3: The Seven Gates of Infinity on MobyGames
Ishar
Crystals of Arborea 1990
Ishar: Legend of the Fortress 1992
Ishar 2: Messengers of Doom 1993
Ishar 3: The Seven Gates of Infinity 1994

Key points

Characters can be imported from Ishar: Legend of the Fortress or Ishar 2: Messengers of Doom (see Import characters).

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Run in DOSBox.
DOS
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Complete series including Crystals of Arborea. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[2]
Windows

Essential improvements

Import characters

Characters can be imported from Ishar: Legend of the Fortress or Ishar 2: Messengers of Doom.
Copy save files[citation needed]
  1. Copy the Ishar: Legend of the Fortress or Ishar 2: Messengers of Doom save into the Ishar 3 installation folder.
  2. Run the game and choose Load saved game.
  3. Choose the game being imported from.
  4. Type the file name (without .sav) and press Enter.
  5. Wait for the menu to reload, then choose Start game.
  6. The game will now start with the imported characters.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\START.STP
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\*.SAV
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

General settings.
General settings.

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 and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Native support doesn't work.
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
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.

Localizations

Keyboard layout can be changed in setup (Delete at startup prompt); choice of AZERTY, QWERTY, QWERTZU.
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 6.2
Processor (CPU) Intel 386
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) VGA
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7.0
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 256 Color
Other CD-ROM drive (150K/s or better)
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7.0 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).

References