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Starflight

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Starflight
Starflight cover
Developers
Binary Systems
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release dates
DOS August 15, 1986
Mac OS (Classic) 1990
Windows (DOSBox) November 24, 2011[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) October 18, 2012
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Top-down view
Genres RPG
Vehicles Space flight
Themes Sci-fi, Space
Series Starflight
Starflight on HowLongToBeat
Starflight on MobyGames
Starflight on Wikipedia
Starflight
Starflight 1986
Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula 1989

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
Use DOSBox.
DOS
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes Starflight 2. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[2]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Origin
Origin
Windows
Requires the code wheel to pass in-game copy protection (use the Starflight Code Generator for the GOG.com version)

Essential improvements

Run in DOSBox

To run correctly in DOSBox, set cycles=1500 and machine=cga. Use Composite display type (option 3) in-game when using CGA mode.[3]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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

Save game data location

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

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
320x200 (720x348 in Hercules mode).
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

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

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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

  1. New release: Starflight 1+2 ● GOG.com - last accessed on 9 June 2023
  2. List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
  3. Settings recommended by Gemini in Ancient DOS Games --- Episode 141: Starflight