Carmen Sandiego's ThinkQuick Challenge


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Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?	1985
Where in the U.S.A. Is Carmen Sandiego?	1986
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (v2.0)	1988
Where in Europe Is Carmen Sandiego?	1988
Where in North Dakota Is Carmen Sandiego?	1989
Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?	1989
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (Enhanced)	1990
Where in the U.S.A. Is Carmen Sandiego? (Enhanced)	1990
Where in America's Past Is Carmen Sandiego?	1991
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe	1992
Where in the U.S.A. Is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe	1993
Where in Space Is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe	1993
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (CD-ROM)	1995
Carmen Sandiego: Junior Detective	1995
Where in the U.S.A. Is Carmen Sandiego? (1996)	1996
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (1996)	1996
Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?/Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase through Time	1997
Carmen Sandiego Word Detective	1997
Carmen Sandiego Math Detective	1998
Carmen Sandiego's ThinkQuick Challenge	1999
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Treasures of Knowledge	2001
Carmen Sandiego Returns	2015

Key points

There are issues when attempting to install the game under 32 and 64-bit operating systems.^{[citation needed]}

The only way people have gotten this game to work is by usage of older hardware or VMs.^{[citation needed]}

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\^{[Note 1]}
Mac OS (Classic)

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\^{[Note 1]}
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game file is mostly encrypted; the only parts of the file that are not encrypted are player names.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		The game runs at 640x480.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS		Full-motion video cutscenes are 10 FPS.
120+ FPS

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus		A mouse is required to play the game.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		On/off switch for sound and music. Sound only turns off speech, not sound effects, and does not affect the FMV cutscenes.
Surround sound
Subtitles		Is turned on by default. FMV cutscenes do not have subtitles or captions.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

No one has repaired this game for modern os, attempt to install and boot will result in 256 colors, 640x480 error messages.

Executable	PPC	16-bit	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows					Game is 16 bit.
Mac OS (Classic)

Mac OS
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	7.5.1
Processor (CPU)	100 MHz Power Macintosh required
System memory (RAM)	9.5 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	30 MB
Other	4X CD-ROM drive or faster 13-inch or larger color monitor, 256 colors

↑ ^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).