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Call of Cthulhu: Prisoner of Ice

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Call of Cthulhu: Prisoner of Ice
Call of Cthulhu: Prisoner of Ice cover
Developers
Infogrames
Publishers
1995-2003 Infogrames
2003-present Atari
Release dates
DOS 1995
Mac OS (Classic) 1995
Windows 1999
Windows (DOSBox) July 21, 2015[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) July 21, 2015[1]
Linux (DOSBox) July 21, 2015[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Flip screen
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Art styles Realistic
Themes Europe, Lovecraftian, Sci-fi, World War II
Series Call of Cthulhu
Call of Cthulhu: Prisoner of Ice on MobyGames
Call of Cthulhu: Prisoner of Ice on Wikipedia
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Call of Cthulhu 2018

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
Windows
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
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Windows
Steam
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Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>\ICE\ICE.cfg[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/359620/pfx/[Note 3]
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
Windows <path-to-game>\ICE\*.ICE[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/359620/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Brazilian Portuguese
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows
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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data.
  3. 3.0 3.1 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>/359620/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (359620) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References