Any "Gamers"

. . . I loved the idea of Myst, and that you don't die. On the other hand, you can end up stuck for some time!

In one of the Myst games there is an ending where you can die, but I won't tell you which one.

Steam has The Norwood Suite on sale now, 75% off, so I just had to pull the trigger on it.







The same people made the equally surreal free game Off-Peak.

I'm saving it for a rainy day.

Just look at my Avatar...

I have been playing games ever since the days of playing Pong on the Atari back in 1972. Over the years, games have become more advanced and have demanded ever better hardware to run them, My current gaming rig has an Intel 14th gen processor, 64 gb of memory and a Nvidia RTX 4070TI GPU. That enables me to run most games in 4K resolution on a 32" monitor. The most recent games I have played are "Elden Ring", "Lies of P", and "Assassins Creed Mirage". Elden Ring and Lies of P, however were so difficult that my aging reflexes cannot keep up. Thus, I had to use cheat mods to make game playing possible.

I am looking forward to the upcoming port of "Horizons Forbidden West" to PC. I also also watching news of "Rise of the Ronin".

The magnet is strong in this thread HoosierShave ^^^^ 

And done

Steam has released a 64-bit version of Myst IV: Revelation. 
I have two sets of installer DVDs, and had bought the 32-bit Mac and Windows versions on Steam, but in spite of the plethora of legacy Macs and older OSs around here, and an older Toshiba laptop running Win 10, I could not get a combination of OS and hardware that would run it. An installation of it on an APFS volume on my MacBook Pro with macOS "Mojave" (which still supports 32-bit apps) couldn't make it work either.

Years ago when it was first released (2004) I made it almost to the end, to the point where you have to decide between (I think) three possible endings, and for some reason I never got around to wrapping it.

The Win 10 version would run (at all), but had these horrible artifacts in the graphics - huge monochrome triangles and quadrangles that obscured large parts of the point-and-click pre-rendered scenery. I gave it up as being unplayable.

So, when they recently came out with the 32-bit version I downloaded it (since I had already paid Steam for it before) on the Sonoma (64-bit) volume, and bingo-bango, it runs just fine! 
I recall just enough of it to know which things to pay attention to and make notes about, but still have to solve the puzzles all over again.
It's not my favourite of the Myst franchise*, but at least now I can finally achieve closure.







* favourites: original "Myst", "Myst II: Riven", and "Uru: Complete Chronicles"

For real nostalgia on macOS, Windows, Linux ...
Install Mini vMac - https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/ 

 
- it even starts up with that really loud "BONG!" of the early Macs.

... and then go to archive.org for all of the abandonware Infocom text adventure games. 
https://archive.org/details/ClassicTextA...mMacintosh
All in a single 12 MB disk image file.

Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom is a collection of 33 computer games from interactive fiction pioneer Infocom, and the top 6 winners of the 1995 Interactive Fiction Competition, released in 1996. It was available as a single cross-platform CD-ROM, which included PDFs of all the Infocom games' instructions, maps, and hint booklets.

Infocom was closed in 1989 by its then-parent company Activision. Still holding the copyright to nearly all the past Infocom titles, Activision bundled them together in this collection, following up the earlier Lost Treasures of Infocom series. The Infocom games included are:

Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur
Ballyhoo
Beyond Zork
Border Zone
Bureaucracy
Cutthroats
Deadline
Enchanter
Hollywood Hijinx
Infidel
Journey
Leather Goddesses of Phobos [BTW, I still have the "scratch & sniff" card that came with it.]
The Lurking Horror
A Mind Forever Voyaging
Moonmist
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It
Planetfall
Plundered Hearts
Seastalker
Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels
Sorcerer
Spellbreaker
Starcross
Stationfall
Suspect
Suspended
Trinity
Wishbringer
The Witness
Zork I
Zork II
Zork III
Zork Zero
The Interactive Fiction Competition winners included are:
   A Change in the Weather
   The Magic Toyshop
   The Mind Electric
   The One That Got Away
   Toonesia
   Uncle Zebulon's Will
The collection included all of the contents of the previous two Lost Treasures of Infocom collections except for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and James Clavell's Shogun. Unlike the Lost Treasures collections, though, Masterpieces included the adult game Leather Goddesses of Phobos." --Wikipedia.org

Holy smokes! I just now figured out that you can also run them in the archive.org preview window. It loads a Mac Plus emulator with System 6.0.8, which you can run in full screen. The double cursor (the one real, and a larger emulated one) is a bit distracting though.

There are a bunch more here: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_mac - including "Deja Vu" (a point-and-click mystery with a noir private detective theme), "Dark Castle", "The Manhole" (by the creators of Myst), "Prince of Persia", "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy", and "Tolkien Text Adventures for Macintosh".



Oh yeah - in Mini vMac you can create virtual hard drives much bigger than were available when the real Mac Plus came out.