DOS

Beneath a Steel Sky

Trivia

The GOG.com release uses the cross-platform virtual machine ScummVM to make the game available for Windows users.

Programmers of the Amiga version left the following information in the main "exe" file. The information describes big problems the programmers had with deficient Amiga hardware when developing the game:

At the beginning the programmers were happy and did rejoice at their task, for the Amiga before them did shineth and was full of promise. But then they did look closer and did see'th the awful truth; it's floppies were tiny and sloweth (rareth was its hard drive). And so small was it's memory that did at first appear large; queereth also was its configuration(s). Then they did findeth another Amiga, and this was slightly different from the first. Then a third, and this was different again. All different, but not really better, for all were pseudo backward compatible. But, eventually, it did come to pass that Steel Sky was implemented on a 1meg os-legal CBM Amiga. And the programmers looked and saw that it was indeed a miracle. But they were not joyous and instead did weep for nobody knew just what had been done.

As for Aug 02, 2003, Beneath a steel sky became officially freeware. The creators of ScummVM, a gaming interface written to make old adventure games playable on modern operating systems (only when you own the original software) asked developer Revolution if they were allowed to take a look at the source code to be able to fully support the game in their interface. They got more than they expected when Revolution made the full game (cd version with music and speech) available to everyone.

Contributed by Sciere (118175) on Aug 19, 2003.

A comic book drawn by Dave Gibbons was included in the box in the original release version of the game and served as an introduction to the game. The comic book can now be read online at Revolution's website.

Beneath a steel sky was also released on CDROM featuring full speech.

The little robot Joey during the game say Bull S**t which was a very big deal at the time.

It also has pictures of women's breasts in the plastic surgery room.

The game does not run in windows'95. It's rather difficult to get it working properly with a plug-and-play audio card: you need to install a plug-and-play configuration manager (ctcm for most cards will do) and install all the drivers. Most SoundBlaster cards come with these drivers, if not you can always find them at their homepage.