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Gateway to the Savage Frontier¶

WASD movement keys

Press Home+W to switch to an alternative input mapping which maps the cursor keys to the WASD keys.
Press Home+Q to switch back to the normal input mapping (e.g., in menus or when entering the name of your save game).

Supports two floppy drives, no disk swapping necessary.
Floppy game that saves to the hard drive.
When saving or restoring the game, enter Save: for the volume name, with the colon at the end (this is important). This will use the Harddisk\Save folder within the game folder for the save games.

CD version extras: CD Audio music, extra animations, no manual-based protection.
This is the best version of the game that features all animations and a full CD Audio soundtrack.
Needs a gamepad (it’s very hard to play with keyboard mappings).
You can only save in the Hall of Worlds by finding a special book. Unfortunately, this saving mechanism is buggy—it’s possible to end up in a state where you’re unable to revisit other worlds, preventing you from completing the game. Using save states is recommended instead (which isn’t considered cheating because you can save anywhere in the OCS and AGA versions).

Multi-language release (English, French, German).
Supports four floppy drives, no disk swapping necessary.
To access the save game menu, click on the Use icon then on the floppy disk in your inventory.

Unreleased official English version.
The game is completable with some minor issues: movement is often sluggish, the “use” command sometimes misfires (e.g., it attempts to use the object on itself), and it may oocassionally crash. Make sure to save often.
To skip the lengthy intro sequence, press the red and blue controller buttons.

Multi-language release (English, French, German).
The intro can’t be skipped. Pressing Esc during the intro will hang the game; use the “skip intro” save state instead.