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Panzer General

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Panzer General
Panzer General cover
Developers
Strategic Simulations Inc.
Mac OS (Classic) Halestorm
Publishers
Strategic Simulations Inc.
Windows Mindscape
United Kingdom Ergo Software
Release dates
DOS 1994
Windows May 28, 1996
Mac OS (Classic) May 1996
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Point and select
Genres Wargame, TBS, Strategy
Themes World War II
Series Panzer General
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People's General 1998
Panzer General 3D Assault 1999
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Panzer General is a singleplayer and multiplayer top-down view wargame, TBS and strategy game in the Panzer General series.

Die PanzerLiga, a multiplayer community for Five-Star General, Panzer Corps and Strategic Command series

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
Windows
Mac OS
Free demo versions are available from Archive.org: version 1, version 2.

Essential improvements

Patches

  • The latest official patches is 1.2 for the floppy and CD versions. Both can be downloaded from Die PanzerLiga.
  • The latest unofficial patches are 1.02 for the DOS version and 1.30 for the Windows version. Both can be downloaded from Die PanzerLiga.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Video

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
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Versus, Hot seat
LAN play
Online play
Asynchronous multiplayer

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA, SVGA
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) Intel i386 DX
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) VGA
1 MB of VRAM
Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel i486 DX2
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 256 colors
Other 2x CD-ROM drive
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)


References