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Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games

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Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games
Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games cover
Developers
Sir-Tech Canada
Publishers
Retail (USA) Sir-Tech
Retail (Europe) Virgin Interactive
GOG.com, Zoom Platform Strategy First
Steam THQ Nordic
Release dates
DOS August 30, 1996
Windows (DOSBox) November 11, 2008
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) April 23, 2014[1]
Linux (DOSBox) April 23, 2014[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres Tactical RPG
Themes Contemporary
Series Jagged Alliance
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Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games is a standalone expansion for Jagged Alliance. It does not require the original game to play. Aside from new missions, characters, weapons and terrain types, Deadly Games introduces a multiplayer mode and map/campaign editors.

General information

Official Discord server for game series
Jagged Alliance Wiki
The Bear's Pit unofficial forums for game series
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
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)
DOS
GamersGate
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Gold Edition (with Jagged Alliance)
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[2]
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Gold Edition (with Jagged Alliance)
Windows
Humble Store
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Gold Edition (with Jagged Alliance)
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
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Gold Edition (with Jagged Alliance). Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Free demo versions are available from Archive.org: online version, CD version.

Essential improvements

Patches

Skip intro videos

Edit dosboxjadg.conf (GOG.com)[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Edit dosboxjadg.conf.
  3. Remove the INTRO line.
  4. Save your changes. The game will now go directly to the main menu after initialising the IPX server.
Edit DEADLY.BAT (retail)[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Edit DEADLY.BAT (for singleplayer) or CONNECT.BAT (for multiplayer).
  3. Remove the INTRO line.
  4. Save your changes and repeat for the other mode if needed.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\DG.CFG
<path-to-game>\SOUND.CFG
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

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

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.

Graphics feature State WSGF 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 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
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound and Music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Enabled by default.
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
German
Retail only; download for digital releases.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
4 Co-op, one player is IPX server all the others connect to him as IPX clients
Online play
For DOSBox use DOSBox IPX/modem emulation.

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP
IPX connection.

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
UDP 213 (default IPXnet server port)
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) Intel 486 66 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) VGA
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 700 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 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