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Caesar II

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Caesar II
Caesar II cover
Developers
Impressions Games
Publishers
Retail Sierra On-Line
Digital Activision
Release dates
DOS September 14, 1995
Windows September 14, 1995
Mac OS (Classic) 1996
Windows (DOSBox) February 9, 2017[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls Point and select
Genres Building
Themes Egypt, Europe, Classical
Series Caesar
Caesar II on HowLongToBeat
Caesar II on IGDB
Caesar II on MobyGames
Caesar II on Wikipedia
Caesar
Subseries of City Building (Sierra)
Caesar 1992
Caesar II 1995
Caesar III 1998
Caesar IV 2006

Caesar II is a singleplayer bird's-eye view and isometric building game in the Caesar series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
DOS
Windows
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
DOS version pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Windows
A free demo version of the DOS release is available from GameFront.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\RESOURCE.CFG
Windows <path-to-game>\RESOURCE.CFG[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic) <path-to-game>\RESOURCE.CFG

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\*.sav
Windows <path-to-game>\*.sav[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic) <path-to-game>\*.sav

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

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).

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Traditional Chinese
Retail only.
French
German
Polish
Local retail version only.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 2 Windows only.
WinG
DOS video modes SVGA
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Smacker

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) Intel 80486SX 25 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 MB
Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel 80486DX2 66 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 20 MB
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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

  1. Release: Caesar & Caesar II - GOG.com - last accessed on 2019-04-01