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Links 386 Pro

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Links 386 Pro
Links 386 Pro cover
Developers
Access Software
Publishers
Retail Access Software
Digital Big Finish Games
Release dates
DOS 1992
Mac OS (Classic) 1994
Windows (DOSBox) June 21, 2021[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Sports
Sports Golf
Art styles Realistic
Series Links
Links 386 Pro on HowLongToBeat
Links 386 Pro on IGDB
Links 386 Pro on MobyGames
Links 386 Pro on Wikipedia
World Class Leader Board 1988
Links: The Challenge of Golf 1990
Links 386 Pro 1992
Microsoft Golf 1992
Links Pro 1993
Microsoft Golf 2.0 1995
Links LS 1997 1996
Microsoft Golf 3.0 1996
Links LS: 1998 Edition 1997
Links LS 1999 1998
Microsoft Golf 1998 Edition 1998
Microsoft Golf 1999 Edition 1999
Links Extreme 1999
Microsoft Golf 2001 Edition 2000
Links LS 2000 2000
Links 2001 2001
Links 2003 2002
Links E6 2021

Key points

The base game comes with the Harbour Town and Banff Springs courses.
An updated version was released on CD-ROM as Links 386 CD in 1995.

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
DOS
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Prepackaged with DOSBox.
Windows

Essential improvements

Hang when running Performance Test

The CD-ROM release has an option to run a Performance Test. If you run this under DOSBox you may experience that the game hangs. The hang can be prevented by changing the DOSBox CPU core emulation mode from the default 'core=auto' (which equals Dynamic) to either the slower "core=normal" or "core=full" mode.

When running the DOSBox-X fork, the hang can alternatively be prevented by setting "use dynamic core with paging on=false".

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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

Save game data location

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

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

Graphics feature State 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
120+ FPS

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
No speech.
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

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes SVGA, SVGA (VESA)

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 4.0
Processor (CPU) Intel 386SX
System memory (RAM) 2 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 13 MB
Video card (GPU) SVGA
Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 9 compatible
Mac OS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 6.0.7
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 256 colors


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