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From: Bernard Lang <B.lang@INRIA.FR>
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Subject: Re: Is MYST for MPC buggy ???!!!
Date: 11 Mar 1994 11:04:53 +0200
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> : We've been playing Myst on my girlfriend's PC for several days now.
> : It appears to be a fabulous game.  However, we've had more TROUBLE with it
> : than ANY other game we've ever played.
>
> It's actually a problem with Quicktime for Windows.
>   What is the latest version of QTW?  Anybody know?  The version of
> QTW that comes with both of these programs is v1.0.

I got qtw.exe by ftp from gatekeeper.dec.com in /pub/micro/msdos/win3/desktop

The file seems recent:
-r--r--r--  1 root     system     571834 Feb 17 12:53 qtw.exe
  No year indication usually means "no older than a year", i.e. 94 in
this case.

Looking for ascii strings in the file I found:

| Disk eXPress Self-Extract Diskette Image (OS/2 and DOS)
| Version 2.10a  02/12/93  Copyright (c) 1991-93  SHAREWARE VERSION

But no clue on whether these 2 lines are connected (the fact that they
followed each other in my output may be due to chance), or whether the
version number is for qtw.exe, or for something else.

Unix people usually make sources available for their (freeware)
programs... too bad it is not the same for PCs.

Bernard Lang