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Arsenal: Taste the Power

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Arsenal: Taste the Power
Arsenal: Taste the Power cover
Developers
Tactical Soft
Publishers
Midas Interactive Entertainment
Release dates
DOS February 13, 1998
Taxonomy
Series Arsenal
Arsenal
Arsenal: Taste the Power 1998
Arsenal: Extended Power 2002

General information

Developer's website

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Run in DOSBox.
DOS
Official website
DRM details are not known
Retail version order form.
DOS
The game uses DOS. CD contains an Windows installer.
The game is not available digitally.
A shareware demo is available.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch v1.4 updates the game to the latest version.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Configuration file is encrypted.

Save game data location

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

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768 resolutions available.
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
F1 displays a simple guide featuring hotkeys used by the game.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
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

Issues fixed

Save function doesn't work

Solutions for save game not working[citation needed]
  • Run the game using DOSBox.
  • Make sure to login in with an actual player name, not New Player.
  • When saving a game choose <FREE> from the list and then type in a name for your save file.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes SVGA

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) 486DX4 100 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 34 MB
Video card (GPU) VESA compatible
1 MB of VRAM


References