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Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum

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Might and Magic Book One:
The Secret of the Inner Sanctum
Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum cover
Developers
New World Computing
Publishers
New World Computing
3DO
Digital Ubisoft
Release dates
DOS 1986
Mac OS (Classic) 1987
Windows (DOSBox) September 3, 2009[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres RPG
Themes Fantasy
Series Might and Magic
Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum on HowLongToBeat
Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum on IGDB
Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum guide on StrategyWiki
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Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum on Wikipedia
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Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum is a singleplayer first-person RPG game in the Might and Magic series.

Many different versions of the game exist, with varying degrees of graphical fidelity and additional features, such as voice acting. The only version sold digitally is the MS-DOS release.

Because the game's speed is dependent on CPU cycles, the game runs too fast on many computers.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Celestial Heavens' subforum

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Use DOSBox for DOS version.
DOS
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Bundled with games 1-6. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[2]
Windows

Essential improvements

Where Are We

Where are we provides an automap, eliminating the need to create a physical map for the game's locations.

Game data

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\ROSTER.DTA
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
ROSTER.DTA stores all characters; it must be present to play (an empty file with this name will work).

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

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 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
On/off only; toggle with V.
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
Russian
Fan translation by «Ardash & Бюро переводов Old-Games.Ru». Download here: https://www.old-games.ru/game/download/51.html

Issues fixed

Text appears too fast

This is caused by the game being CPU cycles dependant.
Use text speed patch[3]

Use the Might and Magic 1 text speed patch.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes

Graphics Overhaul Mod

A mod that replaces the graphics tiles is available at dungeoncrawlers.org.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible


Notes

  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