Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!sgiblab!nbn!well!nigel.msen.com!yale.edu!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news.cerf.net!lsi.lsil.com!qast21!kochpat From: kochpat@qast21 (Dan Kochpatcharin) Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom.reviews Subject: Re: CD ROM games Date: 29 Apr 1994 17:01:10 GMT Organization: LSI Logic Corporation Lines: 47 Message-ID: <2pregm$id4@lsi.lsil.com> References: <1994Apr27.164643.24455@chemabs.uucp> <2pp3v3$50r@lsi.lsil.com> <2pqnnf$jcl@lovecraft.convex.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.145.52.121 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Ken Harward (harward@convex.COM) wrote: : In article <2pp3v3$50r@lsi.lsil.com>, Dan Kochpatcharin wrote: : >worlton@ANPNS6.PNS.ANL.GOV wrote: : >: MYST is played off the CD, however very few people have gotten it to work on : >: the PC. The Macintosh version is fine, but many people have reported : >: problems... : > : > I disagree. I have a P5-66 Gateway machine, and it works : >fine for me. It does take awhile after the book comes down before anything : MYST cause terrific problems for us on on a PC. We were able to : finish it but only after agonizing efforts. I think, in short, that MYST : will work for some, and not for others and the CPU in your machine has very : little to do with it (but the configuration of drivers does seem to make the : difference). : For those hoping to play MYST, make sure you've got your most recent CDROM : drivers, sound card drivers, and video drivers. But that may not help--we : spent a weekend updating nearly every driver on our system and the game : still locked up on a regular (read 10 minute) basis. It is a tribute to the : game that we stuck it out and finished it (but I'm one of those I'M : GONNA FINISH THE DAMN THING IF IT KILLS ME! types :-) : Best of luck to everyone trying to get it to run, : Ken : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- : Ken Harward : harward@convex.com : -- : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes, the keyword is to use the latest driver for your CD-ROM and soundcard. If you have Mitsumi drive, you will need to have patch 1.15. You can download it from Mitsumi BBS 408-970-0761. Have Fun, Dan ------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Kochpatcharin LSI LOGIC CORPORATION. 1501 McCarthy Blvd. Phone: (408) 954-4877 M/S E-199 Fax: (408) 433-6802 Milpitas, CA 95035 email: kochpat@qafs2.lsil.com -------------------------------------------------------------