Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!sybus.sybus.com!myrddin!tscs!daver!dlb!megatest!albrecht From: albrecht@megatest.com (Dave Albrecht) Subject: Re: Is MYST out for IBM Message-ID: Organization: Megatest Corporation References: Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 00:26:57 GMT Lines: 49 From article , by runyan@cup.hp.com (Mark Runyan): > Jim C Lawson (lawson@crl.com) wrote: >>William Williamson, 4289 (wwilliam@orl.mmc.com) wrote: >>>Or do like I did and buy it retail from Costco (or similar discount warehouse) >>>for $41.99. >> >>What did ya think of it, easy to install and configure ? >> >>Jumpy, smooth graphics/sound, etc. ? > I like the game but my experience is that it definitely has some bugs. Both the quicktime movie and the introduction sequence seem to be quite jumpy playing a sequence then freezing both picture and sound for a substantial period before continuing. I haven't found it to be a problem in normal game play, however. The only bug I have experienced and I have experienced it multiple times is that the game will be going along and suddenly stop recognizing that the CDROM is in the drive and put up a requestor for it. I never got all the way through the quicktime Making of movie because this happened mid-way through. The worst place for this bug to evidence is reading books. Sometimes it gets a presage bug of the mouse click going wild and paging multiple pages at a hop before the CD not found error. Despite the bugs, however, I have quite enjoyed the game up to this point. Definitely, save the game before reading books. On a side note. It is just my card/monitor or do all these games put out graphics at way too dark a level. I always have to crank the monitor all the way up so that the background is a medium grey and washed out to see detail. This is true of Myst, it was also true of T7G. System: 486DX/50 16M RAM 25M Permanent Swap file with 32bit access. Windows for Workgroups 3.11 PC Tools for Windows Shell Orchid Farenheight 1280+/VLB (2M) Toshiba 3401B CDROM Adaptec 1542CF SCSI II/Fast David Albrecht