Discworld game (the first one) for Apple Mac. Problems...

[Stephen Thomas Cole]

Hello. just posting on the off chance that someone here may have played
this game back in the 90s? I'm a vintage Apple Mac hobbyist and have a
couple of 90s era computers running here (yeah, kinky, I know...). I
picked up a copy of Discworld and both these computers are above spec, but
I'm having trouble getting it to run.

When I insert the CD and open the folder on the desktop, there's a
Discworld icon. I double-click, as the manual instructs, and an error
message is returned, along the lines of: "The Discworld CD cannot be
located". Which is strange, as it is in the drive and mounted on the
desktop. Perhaps the CD is corrupt, I wondered. So I copied all the files
to a folder on my hard-drive and double-clicked the icon there. This time
it ran, but only got as far as the Psygnosis splash screen before hanging
the system completely.

Any tips on overcoming this will be great! This paricular machine (that I
am posting this message from, in fact) is a PowerMac 9600, 350Mhz
processor, 1GB RAM and running OS7.6.1. The minimum spec for the game is
68K processor, System 7.0 and 4MB RAM. I do have a 68030 Mac sitting right
next to it, now I think about it, maybe I should try and drag the contents
of the CD to a folder on that and see if it'll run on a non-PPC
computer... I'll post this anyway whilst I do that, just in case someone
is hovering to quickly lend some moral support.

Cheers!

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[Stephen Thomas Cole]

In article <slrnkpd60t....@mgb.local>, Lewis
<g.k...@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>
> That may be the problem. THere were many changes in System 7.1 and a lot
> of apps that were written for 7.0 will not run on later version unless
> they were updated. It appears the best way to run the game is to run the
> PC version in a DOS emulator like Boxer

Well, I've sussed it out. Had a look on lspace.org and, yeah, Discworld
won't run on PowerMacs, even though it should! So I'm running it perfect
on my Mac LCIII+ (68030, 36MB RAM, System 7.6.1). The "cannot locate CD"
issue was resolved by turning off file sharing on that computer. Very
pleased! I've heard that this game is fiendish hard, so I bought a
strategy guide book as well, just in case I get stuck.

First thoughts; the voice acting is very good so far, and the game looks great!

[Dom]

Lewis wrote:
> In message <REMOVEsteve.t.col...@192.168.0.139>

> Stephen Thomas Cole <REMOVEste...@REMOVEgmail.com> wrote:
>> In article <slrnkpd60t....@mgb.local>, Lewis
>> <g.k...@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> That may be the problem. THere were many changes in System 7.1 and a lot
>>> of apps that were written for 7.0 will not run on later version unless
>>> they were updated. It appears the best way to run the game is to run the
>>> PC version in a DOS emulator like Boxer
>
>> Well, I've sussed it out. Had a look on lspace.org and, yeah, Discworld
>> won't run on PowerMacs, even though it should! So I'm running it perfect
>> on my Mac LCIII+ (68030, 36MB RAM, System 7.6.1). The "cannot locate CD"
>> issue was resolved by turning off file sharing on that computer. Very
>> pleased! I've heard that this game is fiendish hard, so I bought a
>> strategy guide book as well, just in case I get stuck.
>
>> First thoughts; the voice acting is very good so far, and the game looks great!
>

> Well, Eric Idle. Duh.

and Jon Pertwee etc.

> What I remember is that the game itself was terrible, but all the other
> bits were great.

Yeah. I play it under SCUMMVM on i386 Linux :)


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Dom