Blake Stone: Planet Strike

Blake Stone
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold	1993
Blake Stone: Planet Strike	1994

Blake Stone: Planet Strike is a singleplayer first-person action, FPS and shooter game in the Blake Stone series.

The source code was released on July 8, 2013.^[4]

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Floppies or CD-ROM. See run in DOSBox (retail).
Official website
GOG.com		Pre-packaged with DOSBox.^[5]
Steam		Pre-packaged with DOSBox. Also sold as part of The Apogee Throwback Pack.
ZOOM Platform		Pre-packaged with DOSBox.

Essential improvements

BStone

BStone is a native port of the engine source code with support for higher resolutions and other features. Linux users should download the hosted precompiled version if you do not wish to compile the software from source code and extract bstone bin file into the installation folder. A conservative fork exists called NakedStone.

Skip intro videos

Use bstone with the --no_screens command line argument.

Run in DOSBox (retail)

To run Blake Stone correctly in DOSBox change cycles=auto to cycles=max.

WDC game editor

WDC supports editing maps, enemies, music and many other game features. You must start a new game for the map changes to take effect.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\CONFIG.VSI
Windows	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)	$HOME/Library/Application Support/Boxer/Gamebox States/com.gog.blake-stone-planet-strike/Current.boxerstate/C Blake Stone Planet Strike.harddisk/CONFIG.VSI<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
Linux	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358310/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

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>\SAVEGAM*.VSI
Windows	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)	$HOME/Library/Application Support/Boxer/Gamebox States/com.gog.blake-stone-planet-strike/Current.boxerstate/C Blake Stone Planet Strike.harddisk/SAVEGAM.VSI <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)*^{[Note 1]}
Linux	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358310/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
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
120+ FPS		Frame rate is capped at 70 FPS.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		On/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles		Dialogue is text-only (enemy taunts etc. are not subtitled).
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

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes

Executable	PPC	32-bit	64-bit	ARM	Notes
Linux					PowerPC and ARM requires the Bstone source port^[6] or a PPC DOSbox installation different from that of GOG.com.

System requirements

DOS
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)	386/20	486
System memory (RAM)	560K of conventional memory	2 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	8 MB
Video card (GPU)	VGA
Sound (audio device)	Adlib, Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro, Disney Sound Source compatible

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 7 compatible	DirectX 9 compatible

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) or later
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz+
System memory (RAM)	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	64 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ ^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. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).
↑ ^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>/358310/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (358310) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Blake Stone: Planet Strike - 3D Realms - Firepower Matters - last accessed on May 2023
↑ New release: Blake Stone: Planet Strike - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
↑ GOG.com Now Supports Linux! - July 24, 2014 - last accessed on May 2023
↑ "Apogee Releases Blake Stone Source Code". Apogee Software. 8 July 2013. Archived from the original on 11 August 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
↑ List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
↑ FreshPorts -- games/bstone: Source port of Blake Stone - last accessed on 2021-03-26

[DOSBox_mounted-6] 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. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).

[Proton_path_note-7] 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>/358310/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (358310) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] Blake Stone: Planet Strike - 3D Realms - Firepower Matters - last accessed on May 2023

[2] New release: Blake Stone: Planet Strike - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023

[3] GOG.com Now Supports Linux! - July 24, 2014 - last accessed on May 2023

[4] "Apogee Releases Blake Stone Source Code". Apogee Software. 8 July 2013. Archived from the original on 11 August 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2020.

[5] List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023

[8] FreshPorts -- games/bstone: Source port of Blake Stone - last accessed on 2021-03-26

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Developers

	JAM Productions
Publishers
Original	Apogee Software
Current	Apogee Entertainment
Engines
	Wolfenstein 3D engine
Release dates
DOS	October 28, 1994^[1]
Windows (DOSBox)	March 19, 2009^[2]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox)	May 9, 2013
Linux (DOSBox)	July 24, 2014^[3]
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, FPS, Shooter
Themes	Sci-fi
Series	Blake Stone