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Setting the game up technically

By Anderson

This guide will help you learn the shortcuts to enter full screen and access basic settings.

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Category: Modding or Configuration

Languages: English

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5 Mar, 2015 @ 11:34am

18 Jan, 2020 @ 1:09pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Windowed and Fullscreen mode

Graphics

Menu/Settings

Comments

Windowed and Fullscreen mode

To switch between Fullscreen and Windowed mode use the shortcut of keys ALT+Enter.
Your game will be automatically in Windowed mode upon first launch.

Graphics

There are two graphic options that can be toggled, the old one from 1995 and a newer one with more polished Anti Aliasing:

1) On a Mac/OS X you need to use the Task Bar at the top of the desktop screen to Save & Load a game - keyboard shortcuts don't seem to work."
2) On a Windows use the shortcut ALT+S.

Menu/Settings

The Settings and the menu can be found on the key F1 on the keyboard.
It will not always work, for that as some people pointed out, it's a good idea to switch between Fullscreen mode to Windowed and try to right click on the game window to switch it manually, or to change the graphics with ALT+S.
It seems to be a bug that can be avoided (and if any others appear) specifically through applying these measures.

16 Comments

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Chuckapitic 25 May, 2024 @ 2:19am

for me the issue is i cant seem to overwrite data, but its a minor incovenience since there are like 99 savefiles available

dslapp63 24 Sep, 2022 @ 7:03pm

If you're still unable to access the save/settings menu, what finally worked for me was CTRL+F1.

stylegamr 28 Oct, 2021 @ 3:11pm

To access the Menu (F1) if it doesn't work, simply hold the Alt key for a few seconds first. I improved the technique from the VulpusAlbus post. cheers

aerniea 8 Nov, 2020 @ 6:28pm

Kinda goofy to have to depend on the button shortcuts, but thanks for the head's up. I button mashed until I found F5 to open the Save/ Settings menu on mine...

antonio divaldci 18 Jan, 2020 @ 12:38pm

thanks dude, when i started this game i thinking i bought a unfinish game or something like that.
thanks

Harry 17 Sep, 2018 @ 11:36pm

Thanks bro, I played this years ago without finishing but really enjoyed it. Recenly I bought it again. One major problem, could not maximise it. Your a saviour :)

Anderson [author] 8 Jun, 2016 @ 10:16am

New ScummVM version has some good fixes by the way.

VulpusAlbus 25 Aug, 2015 @ 6:52am

It ook some time, but I found a workaround for disabled F keys that works for me 100%.

1. Alt-Tab out of the game.
2. From the desktop do the following:
3. Hold and press Alt, don't release it yet
4. Press Tab once, so that windows list appears
5. Mouse click on the Dig window
6. After it switches to the game and it goes to fullscreen release Alt.
All the keys should be working now.

PS. Anyway save often. With F keys not working you can't save your progress :(

Anderson [author] 6 Mar, 2015 @ 12:23pm

Sounds fishy to me and of more effort than it's worth than those simple key shortcuts above.
I'd rather use ScummVM for things that cannot be launched otherwise.

Savv 6 Mar, 2015 @ 12:12pm

You couldn’t use ScummVM 1.6.0 with Steam versions of LucasArts games, but now you can, because it’s a new feature in ScummVM 1.7.0. From changelog: Added support for the Steam versions of Indiana Jones and the Last
Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Loom and The Dig. Both
the Windows and the Macintosh versions are supported.

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