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The Colonel's Bequest

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The Colonel's Bequest
The Colonel's Bequest cover
Developers
Sierra On-Line
Publishers
Retail Sierra On-Line
Digital Activision
Engines
SCI
Release dates
DOS 1989
Windows (ScummVM) February 16, 2017[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Themes Detective/mystery
Series Laura Bow
The Colonel's Bequest guide on StrategyWiki
The Colonel's Bequest on MobyGames
The Colonel's Bequest on Wikipedia
Laura Bow
The Colonel's Bequest 1989
The Dagger of Amon Ra 1992
Parlor Games with Laura Bow 1992

Key points

Can be played on ScummVM.

General information

The Sierra Chest entry
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.
Requires special map and magnifying glass.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\RESOURCE.CFG
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\CB1SG.***
Windows

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
120+ FPS

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
All speech 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

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes CGA, EGA

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2.11
Processor (CPU) Intel 8088
System memory (RAM) 512 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 MB
Video card (GPU) CGA, EGA


References

  1. Release: The Colonel's Bequest - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023