Anonymous edits have been disabled on the wiki. If you want to contribute please login or create an account.

Thunderscape

From PCGamingWiki, the wiki about fixing PC games
Thunderscape
Thunderscape cover
Developers
Strategic Simulations Inc.
Publishers
North America Strategic Simulations Inc.
Europe Mindscape
Digital Kyoudai Games
Release dates
DOS 1995
Windows (DOSBox) August 22, 2013[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) November 15, 2013[2]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives First-person
Genres RPG
Themes Fantasy, Steampunk
Series World of Aden
Thunderscape on MobyGames
Thunderscape on Wikipedia
World of Aden
Thunderscape 1995
Entomorph: Plague of the Darkfall 1995

Thunderscape is a singleplayer first-person RPG game in the World of Aden series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Apply the Thunderscape intro skip

Patches

The v1.1 Patch fixes various issues. The GOG.com version is already patched.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\OPTIONS.BIN
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Sound card settings are stored in DIG.INI.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SAVE*\
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Saves are stored in folders SAVE0 to SAVE3.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

General settings.
General settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
320x200 only.
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
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
Master slider and on/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Off by default; toggle Help Text in Options. Videos have no subtitles.
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
French
German

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) 486/66 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 25 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 250 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.7.0
Processor (CPU) 1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 250 MB
Video card (GPU) 256 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.

References

  1. Release: Thunderscape ● GOG.com - last accessed on 9 June 2023
  2. Mac Game Update: 34 New Additions ● GOG.com - last accessed on 9 June 2023
  3. List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 2 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023