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Gauntlet (Mac OS Classic)

In the course of this button-bashing dungeon crawl, you'll destroy countless demons, ghosts, sorcerers, and joysticks.

Data Disk#

The monochrome and color versions shipped together on independently functioning 800K disks—"GAUNTLET" and "Gauntlet (Color)"—with identical copies of the sound and level data.

However, dialogs exist that ask for a secondary disk (by two different names):

If it's so gaunt, why won't it fit on the first disk?

Neither is shown when a file is missing. The game simply crashes, or tries to get by without it (such as by generating an endless series of mostly empty levels out of garbage data).

Creator Code#

The Gauntlet application's four-letter signature is IRON.

References#


  1. Computer Entertainer, June 1989, p. 14↩︎