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Blackthorne

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Blackthorne
Blackthorne cover
Developers
Blizzard Entertainment
Publishers
DOS Interplay Entertainment
Mac OS MacPlay
Digital Blizzard Entertainment
Release dates
DOS December 19, 1994
Mac OS (Classic) November 1996
Windows (DOSBox) November 3, 2013
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) November 3, 2013
Taxonomy
Monetization Freeware
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Side view
Controls Direct control
Genres Platform, Shooter
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Blackthorne is a singleplayer side view platform and shooter game.

The game was titled Blackhawk in Europe. It was re-released as a free download on November 3, 2013.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
DOS
Developer website
DRM-free
DOS version pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
A free demo version is available from Archive.org.

Essential improvements

Run in DOSBox

To run correctly in DOSBox, change cycles=auto to cycles=fixed 13000. Leave all other DOSBox settings at their defaults.[1]

Game data

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SAVEGAME.000
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Blizzard Entertainment\Blackthorne\SAVEGAME.000
<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
In-game settings are not stored between sessions.

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
[2]
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
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
On/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Everything is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio
General MIDI audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
European retail only.
German
European retail only.
Russian
Fan translation, download

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 3.1
Processor (CPU) 386SX
System memory (RAM) 2 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA
Mac OS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7.0
Processor (CPU) Motorola 68040
PowerPC 601
System memory (RAM) 3 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 MB


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data.

References

  1. Settings used by Blizzard in the 2013 re-release.
  2. Verified by User:Quiet Bob on September 3, 2019