Myst

What works

Everything seems to work correctly: animations, sound effects, etc. The "Making of" video that comes on the CD works, too.

What does not

The "hand" pointer does not overlay on the graphics perfectly. It appears inside a square box that's not transparent. It's a minor annoyance, though.

Workarounds

What was not tested

I've not yet been able to go through the whole game (yet).

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Gold instead of Platinum only because both Myst 1.3 and the "Making of" video require being run in "Win95" mode. They will both complain and refuse to launch if this option has not been selected. Installation seems to need "Windows 7" mode to install without issues. Suggestion: Copy the CD to its own directory on your hard drive, then mount this directory as drive D: and install by launching D:/AUTORUN/AUTORUN.EXE. Either select the "Expert" mode when installing and tell it to skip searching your hard drive(s) for other copies of Quicktime to update, or delete all but C: and D: drives to prevent Quicktime from searching your entire hard drive for other versions to upgrade. You can launch Myst from the Wine menu and leave the copied CD files mounted as D: to satisfy the (primitive) copy protection demands. That way you'll no longer need to have the physical CD mounted in your system to play the game. Suggestion: To prevent the game from leaving your desktop resized when it shuts down, it's helpful to emulate a virtual desktop for Myst & "Making of". It only runs as 800x600, but 1024x768 will work, too.