General information
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Availability
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Notes |
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Pre-packaged with DOSBox. |
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Essential improvements
Insufficient memory
If you receive the error "YOU NEED MORE MEMORY TO RUN CALIFORNIA GAMES!" when starting the game, especially if you're running the game from DOSBox, instead of trying to make more memory available for the program per its recommendations, try to first run LOADFIX. LOADFIX is included with DOS 5.0 or later, and is also included with DOSBox.
If LOADFIX does not resolve the problem, which is more typical of running the game on a retro PC, you do need to make more usable conventional memory available.
Cannot input player name
The game was written for the keyboard controller of the original IBM PC/XT machines, and has problems with the later IBM AT style Enhanced keyboard.
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Use DOSBox
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Notes
With DOSBox this can be worked around by setting the emulated machine type to hercules, cga or tandy as those machine types emulate an XT style keyboard controller. Tandy is probably the best option as it will give EGA-like graphics.
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Use DOSBox-X
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Notes
With DOSBox-X you can force the keyboard type to XT, regardless of emulated machine type, with the following settings in your DOSBox-X config file:
[keyboard]
controllertype = xt
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Use CONFIG.SYS option
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Notes
When running the game on a real DOS PC with AT or PS/2 keyboard, add the line SWITCHES=/K to your CONFIG.SYS. This option is supported in DOS 5.0 and later, but is not supported by DOSBox.
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Patch the game[1]
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Notes
A patch was posted on Vogons by user Pantercat which allows the game to run with a AT Enhanced keyboard.
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
Video
Graphic capability options
Input
Audio
Localizations
| Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
| English |
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Other information
API
| Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
| DOS video modes |
CGA, EGA, Hercules, MCGA, Tandy, PCjr |
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System requirements
| DOS |
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Minimum |
| Operating system (OS) |
2.0 |
| Processor (CPU) |
Intel 8088 / 8086 |
| System memory (RAM) |
512 KB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) |
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| Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
| Operating system (OS) |
7 |
10 |
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Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data.
- ↑ 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>/1399480/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1399480) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References
