Pool of Radiance downloads
I doubt any of the games have been ported, but they can be run with an emulator like DOSBox.There is a Gold Box collection package listed on Good Old Games.It says it uses DOSBox to run the games, and claims 'Compatible with: Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10), Mac OS X (10.7.0+) and Linux (Ubuntu 14.04, Mint 17).' SuperCheats currently has Xbox cheats for 1,207 games, walkthroughs, and 9,505 questions asked with 17,440 answers. Grand Theft Auto 3 iOS Strategy Guide and Walkthrough Forza 4 Walkthrough Guide. SSI's AD&D 'Gold Box' games were released in 1988-1992 and set in the fantasy worlds of Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance. They were among the best of turn-based CRPGs and are still being played today. Gold Box Companion is a tool for all the Gold Box games plus Unlimited Adventures and the two SSI's Buck Rogers games.
Video
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Additional info
Input: keyboard
Distributed on: 3,5 floppy disk, 5,25 floppy disk
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Comments
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- Of all the old SSI 'goldbox' D&D clone games, this was probably the best. Note however, that the game makes reference to 'journal entries' that only existed in the paper manual. If you want to understand what's going on in the story, you'll need to download the manual from somewhere.
- I played this game on my Tandy 1000HX computer. It had 640k ram, 1200 baud internal modem, 2 - 3 1/2' floppy drives, external 5 ¼ ' floppy drive and a cm11 monitor with 16 colors. It also had a 9 wire dmp133 dot matrix printer. It ran on dos v2.11 with a program called deskview Tandy's version of windows like interface. When I played the game I would put in the first and second disk and open a program called pool.exe I think it was to play the game and it seemed like 10 minutes before the game started and once it did the fight scenes took forever to get through but, it had good sound and colors. It was a great game at that time.
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Developers | |
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Mac OS (Classic) | |
Engines | |
Release dates | |
DOS | August 1988 |
Mac OS (Classic) | 1989 |
Windows (DOSBox) | August 20, 2015[1] |
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) | August 20, 2015[1] |
Linux (DOSBox) | August 20, 2015[1] |
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⤏ Go to series page | |
Pool of Radiance | 1988 |
Curse of the Azure Bonds | 1989 |
Secret of the Silver Blades | 1990 |
Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday | 1990 |
Champions of Krynn | 1990 |
Neverwinter Nights | 1991 |
Pools of Darkness | 1991 |
Gateway to the Savage Frontier | 1991 |
Death Knights of Krynn | 1991 |
The Dark Queen of Krynn | 1992 |
Treasures of the Savage Frontier | 1992 |
Spelljammer: Pirates of Realmspace | 1992 |
Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed | 1992 |
Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures | 1993 |
This page is for the original 1988 Gold Box game. For the 2001 re-imagining using 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons rules, see Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor.
Key points
- Supports the graphics hardware of Tandy computers and the sound hardware of both PCjr and Tandy computers. See Essential Improvements for information about enabling the PCjr/Tandy sound on DOSBox
- The first version of PC release includes the theme music from the original C64 release, when played using PCjr/Tandy sound. Later versions omit this music entirely
General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
Availability[edit]
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | Run in DOSBox. | |||
GOG.com | Bundled with Curse of the Azure Bonds, Hillsfar, Secret of the Silver Blades, Pools of Darkness, Gateway to the Savage Frontier, Treasures of the Savage Frontier, and Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures. |
- The retail version requires the Translation Wheel to answer copy protection questions. The GOG.com version has the copy protection cracked (anything will be accepted).[2]
Essential improvements[edit]
Enable PCjr/Tandy sound on DOSBox[edit]
- Most later releases are configured to use PC speaker sound. DOSBox can be set to emulate the additional sound hardware of PCjr/Tandy systems and the game configured to use PCjr/Tandy for sound instead of more primitive PC speaker. In the first version of PC release this also enables the theme music in the introduction and at the beginning of battles
Edit the configuration file of DOSBox and POOL.CFG in the installation folder[citation needed] |
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Skip intro videos[edit]
Edit POOL.CFG[3] |
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Notes
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Skip Translation Wheel prompts[edit]
Launch with st.exe STING parameter[4] |
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Run the game with st.exe STING |
PoR Speed Control Utility[edit]
- This utility will allow you to control the speed of the game. You will be able to speed up the game from 1 to 10 times, or reset the speed back if necessary.
Gold Box Companion[edit]
- Gold Box Companion is a program for Windows that adds various optional features when playing the DOS version in DOSBox (fix command for healing, automap, party HUD, raising level restrictions, character editing, etc.)
Game data[edit]
Configuration file(s) location[edit]
System | Location |
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DOS | <path-to-game>POOL.CFG |
Windows | <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1] |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
macOS (OS X) | <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1] |
Linux | <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1] |
- It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.
Save game data location[edit]
System | Location |
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DOS | <path-to-game>SAVE |
Windows | <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1] |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
macOS (OS X) | <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1] |
Linux | <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1] |
- The default save folder can be changed by editing
POOL.CFG
.[5] - Saves are
SAVGAMA.DAT
toSAVGAMJ.DAT
. - Character files are
*.CHA
. Character names must be listed inCHARLIST.TXT
in order to be visible in-game. Character files are only present when that character is not part of a party in a save file.
Save game cloud syncing[edit]
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy |
Video[edit]
Graphics feature | State | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | 320x200 only. | |
Multi-monitor | ||
Ultra-widescreen | ||
4K Ultra HD | ||
Field of view (FOV) | ||
Windowed | Toggle with Alt+↵ Enter (when using DOSBox). | |
Borderless fullscreen windowed | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds). | |
60 FPS and 120+ FPS |
Input[edit]
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Remapping | For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds). | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | True for Mac OS, false for DOS. | |
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds). |
Audio[edit]
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | On/off only; toggle with Ctrl+S. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | Everything is text-based. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
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Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English |
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Other information[edit]
API[edit]
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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DOS video modes |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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macOS (OS X) |
System requirements[edit]
DOS | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | ||
Processor (CPU) | ||
System memory (RAM) | 384 KB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | ||
Video card (GPU) | CGA, EGA, Tandy |
Dosbox Games Archive
Notes
- ↑ 1.01.11.21.31.41.5File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS and/or PC booter 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 thecloud_saves
folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).
References
- ↑ 1.01.11.2Release: Forgotten Realms: The Archives - GOG.com
- ↑NOTE: Copy protection in these games, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com
- ↑The CRPG Addict: Pool of Radiance: The Story Begins
- ↑VOGONS • View topic - more Pool of Radiance...
- ↑POR: Where do games save?, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com