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eyadams · Jun 10, 2003, 03:57 PM

Does anyone know of a good source for older Macintosh games? I'm particularly interested in "Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time". I've checked eBay, but only the PC version seems to be up for grabs at this time.

voodoo · Jun 10, 2003, 06:07 PM

wow that is an old game/interctive movie.

jamesa · Jun 11, 2003, 08:13 AM

but man it was a good game... along with the marathon/myth series by Bungie, that's got to be one of my all time fave games!

I actually wrote to them and asked them to port it to OS X, but they went broke a few months ago

-- james

Angus_D · Jun 11, 2003, 09:27 AM

Actually, I have it sitting on the shelf here. Never played it, though, got it free off a mate who was moving abroad and chucking out a load of Mac stuff

BigMark · Jun 13, 2003, 05:04 AM

I'm pretty sure the game was released as a hybrid CDROM with both PC and Mac versions on the same CD.

ambush · Jun 13, 2003, 06:26 AM

I got this game. Just have to find the CDs.

I also have the sequel, it's Journey Man Project something.

They're nice games,

Angus_D · Jun 13, 2003, 01:01 PM

Originally posted by ambush:
I also have the sequel, it's Journey Man Project something.

Buried in Time is the Journeyman Project 2

eyadams · Jun 13, 2003, 08:32 PM

Well, now there's a copy on eBay. Hopefully I'll win. Anyone know if it'll run in Classic? JP3 doesn't, and I never tried the first one.

MacHeadCase · Jun 13, 2003, 09:39 PM

eyadams I played Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time in Classic.

jamesa · Jun 14, 2003, 07:26 AM

#3 sucked, it was for kids or something - you couldn't die, the puzzles were much easier, it felt like you were being held by the hand as you went through the game

I tried playing it on my beige g3 in OS 9 ages ago, had troubles with swapping discs. Who knows how it'll run in classic.

If you find out, let us all know - god knows where my discs are, but they should be around somewhere...

eyadams · Jun 16, 2003, 11:33 AM

eyadams I played Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time in Classic.

I should have clarified. I tried playing JP3 in Classic a long time ago and it didn't play right. Video sequences were blank or wouldn't play at all, menus were almost unusable. I haven't tried in a long, long time, however - certainly not under 10.2. Maybe things work better now - I know that with each update a few more of my son's Classic titles run a little better (Reader Rabbit, Jumpstart, etc.)

I will definately post my results when/if I get JP2.

invisibleX · Jun 17, 2003, 09:26 AM

It was really good. Not really my cup of tea but otherwise a fantastic game.

THE MAC GOD · Jun 17, 2003, 10:41 AM

I played an beat all three journeyman games... did you know the first one came out before Myst? Just wasn't advertised as well (and it was great graphics and on a CD)...

11011001 · Jun 22, 2003, 04:37 AM

Originally posted by THE MAC GOD:
I played an beat all three journeyman games... did you know the first one came out before Myst? Just wasn't advertised as well (and it was great graphics and on a CD)...

Played the demo of Journey Man Project 3 (Legacy of Time??) that came with Riven, man... that just blew me away. 360 degrees!! wow!

Playing through Exile right now, very pretty game, but man does playing it on a LCD suck (anything other than native resolution looks bad).

eyadams · Jun 23, 2003, 11:13 AM

Playing through Exile right now, very pretty game, but man does playing it on a LCD suck (anything other than native resolution looks bad).

Exile was a pretty cool game. My only complaint was that it didn't like my dual-monitor setup under OS X. When I sent an email to customer service to complain, they replied "we don't support OS X". I then provided them with a link to the OS X download on their site, and haven't heard back.

Getting back to the original topic, I should be getting my copy of Buried In Time some time this week. Can't wait to see if it runs in Classic under OS X, or if I'm going to have to reboot.

eyadams · Jun 24, 2003, 11:19 AM

Finally got my copy. Runs pretty well in Classic. I was able to image all three CDs and mount them at once, thereby avoiding swapping. I've only encountered one problem so far, and I'm not sure if it's puzzle related or a bug - there's a point in the game where you push a button on a computer, and I push the button but nothing happens.

I found an update for the game at Broderbund's web site, which I will install, though it doesn't mention this specific problem.

But the main things - the videos, movement, etc., all are perfect. Which is great.

11011001 · Jun 24, 2003, 04:03 PM

Originally posted by eyadams:
Exile was a pretty cool game. My only complaint was that it didn't like my dual-monitor setup under OS X. When I sent an email to customer service to complain, they replied "we don't support OS X". I then provided them with a link to the OS X download on their site, and haven't heard back.

Getting back to the original topic, I should be getting my copy of Buried In Time some time this week. Can't wait to see if it runs in Classic under OS X, or if I'm going to have to reboot.

I had troubles too with my multimonitor setup. It initially loaded on my secondary monitor, but I couldn't click anything, by moving the menu bar and other tricks, I got it to load on the LCD primary, where I did have mouse control.

But, here is my grip, if I move my mouse too far to the right, it gets on the secondary screen.. and I can't control the game anymore, until i move it back. I fixed this a bit by rearranging the monitors, so that only their very corners are touching (I have to do this in SC too), that sort of fixed the problem, but I still sometimes go out of the screen. It's annoying, something tells me they never tested it on dual displays.

At least in starcraft, you can actually see where the mouse is and avoid going out of bounds.