Atlantis: The Lost Tales
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Developers | |
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Cryo Interactive | |
Publishers | |
DreamCatcher Interactive | |
Engines | |
Spherical-VR | |
Omni3D[1] | |
Release dates | |
DOS | September 30, 1997 |
Windows | September 30, 1997 |
macOS (OS X) | June 18, 2013[2] |
Taxonomy | |
Series | Atlantis |
Atlantis | |
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Atlantis: The Lost Tales | 1997 |
Atlantis II: Beyond Atlantis | 1999 |
Atlantis III: The New World | 2001 |
Atlantis Evolution | 2004 |
The Secrets of Atlantis: The Sacred Legacy | 2006 |
Warnings
- The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | Disc check. | |||
GOG.com | Unofficial Update "Extended Cut" (2019) | |||
ZOOM Platform |
Essential improvements
Patches
- Patches are available to fix various issues.
Unofficial Patch for GOG.com version (2019)
- This new unofficial version fix almost every bugs listed here and works fine on Windows 10.
Atlantis The Extended's Cut (March 2019) |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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DOS | |
Windows | |
macOS (OS X) |
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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\CRYO\Atlantis\GameDirectory
determines the game data folder on Windows. - You'll need to reach the next checkpoint to have your settings saved, since options are stored together with savegames.
- The Windows version makes a
C:\pitch.bin
file; its purpose is unclear. -
<path-to-game>\players.atl
stores player profiles.
Save game data location
System | Location |
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DOS | |
Windows | <path-to-game>\*.gam[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | 640x480 only | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | D3DWindower and DxWnd work. Windows 95/98 compatibility modes could impede windowed mode |
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Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Exceeding 30 FPS speeds up characters behavior and acting. |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds). | |
Mouse acceleration | No option. Follows Windows default behavior. | |
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | Regardless of your game localization, menu items will have the alignment used in the English one | |
Mouse Y-axis inversion | It's called "Omni-3D mode" | |
Controller | ||
Controller support | For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds). |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Master, music, effects, voices. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Dutch | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | Retail only: Atlantis: A Lenda Perdida.[3] | |||
Spanish | ||||
Swedish |
Issues unresolved
- Game won't close properly if you use Alt+F4 and will you require to manually kill the process
- All game versions but the original unpatched CD one come with graphics glitches like characters without pupils, beard or with fused apparel[4]
Issues fixed
GOG.com version is laggy
Edit atlantis.exe[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Game is too fast
Cap the frame rate |
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Notes
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Crash on CD change
Download following save game[5] |
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Garbled graphics split in columns
Install Voodoo3/Banshee patch[6] |
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Game crashing
Fix crashes with Mesa3D[citation needed] |
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Restore DirectSound effects[7] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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DOS video modes |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||
macOS (OS X) | [8] |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 95 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 133 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 16 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1.73 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | SVGA and MPEG-2 support |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.6.8 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 1 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | ||
Video card (GPU) | 256 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
- ↑ Cryomni3D - ScummVM :: Wiki - last accessed on 2019-09-23
- ↑ Mac Game Update: System Shock 2 + 10 more titles - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ MobyGames
- ↑ Please GOG, concentrate on fixing it !!!, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Atlantis: The Lost Tales” on Windows 7
- ↑ Atlantis: The Lost Tales Setup Walkthrough
- ↑ DxWnd / Discussion / General Discussion: Atlantis: The Lost Tales freezes - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Atlantis: The Lost Tales on GOG.com - last accessed on 2019-12-27
- "Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up."