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The Legacy: Realm of Terror

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The Legacy: Realm of Terror
The Legacy: Realm of Terror cover
Developers
Magnetic Scrolls
MicroProse
Publishers
Retail MicroProse
Digital (2019-2020) Piko Interactive
Digital (2020+) Ziggurat Interactive
Release dates
DOS 1992
Windows (DOSBox) December 20, 2019[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) December 20, 2019[1]
Linux (DOSBox) December 20, 2019[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Continuous turn-based
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control, Menu-based
Genres RPG, Survival horror
Art styles Pixel art, Pre-rendered graphics
Themes Contemporary, Fantasy, North America, Supernatural, Horror
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The Legacy: Realm of Terror is a singleplayer first-person RPG and survival horror game.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox. Manual lookup prompts are bypassed.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Pre-packaged with DOSBox. Manual lookup prompts are bypassed.
Windows

Game data

Save/load interface.
Save/load interface.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\*.LAY
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1257890/pfx/[Note 2]
File contains Window layouts and sizes, and can be saved/loaded in-game.
These files can be saved to anywhere within the game installation.
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\*.SAV
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1257890/pfx/[Note 2]
Game data can be saved anywhere in the game installation.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Menu list. This can be accessed by right-clicking the blue area of the in-game display.
Menu list. This can be accessed by right-clicking the blue area of the in-game display.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
4:3 (320x200) only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
320x200 only.
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

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file.
Mouse input in menus
Game can be played using the mouse exclusively.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Music/SFX list. See the Menu list screenshot above for more details.
Music/SFX list. See the Menu list screenshot above for more details.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Individual On/Off toggles for music and sound effects.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA

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 386SX
System memory (RAM) 2 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) VGA
Windows
Minimum Recommended
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 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.11
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) OpenGL compatible
256 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data.
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1257890/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1257890) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References