[ennerseed]

Has anyone been able to get the demo to MYST IV Revelations Demo to work?
it pops into my dock for a split second (just enough to move my icons aside a bit and then disappears.

The link for the demo is:
ftp://ftp.ubi.com/emea/myst4/demo/MIV_demo.zip

[littlegreenspud]

This happens to me on my 550 TiBook, but it work fine on my Dual Gig G4. Perhaps it is due to the demo's system requirements -

MAC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS*
G4 933MHz or +
Disk Space ~200 MB
128 Mb Ram +
32 Mb video Card
Nvidia Geforce 2,4,FX
Ati 7500-9600
CD reader
OSX 10.2.8 or OSX 10.3.3

[Rev-O]

Originally posted by ennerseed:
Has anyone been able to get the demo to MYST IV Revelations Demo to work?
it pops into my dock for a split second (just enough to move my icons aside a bit and then disappears.

The link for the demo is:
ftp://ftp.ubi.com/emea/myst4/demo/MIV_demo.zip

IIRC the Myst IV demo must reside in your applications folder in order to run properly. No running it off of external drives, no running it out of a 'games' folder, etc.

And it works just fine for me on a dual 2 GHz G5.

[Buckaroo]

Originally posted by Rev-O:
IIRC the Myst IV demo must reside in your applications folder in order to run properly. No running it off of external drives, no running it out of a 'games' folder, etc.

And it works just fine for me on a dual 2 GHz G5.

It won't work on my TiBook 1Ghz in any folder, including the Applications folder.

[livemotion]

doesn't work for me either

alum 15" powerbook

1.25ghz G4
512mb ram
30GB free

that would eplain why apple took it off their Game pages... I haven't played the game since the original Myst, wasn't that one done in HyperCard on a Mac?

[livemotion]

Ok finally found a solution on Ubi Forums:

. The app is initially write protected, so select it, type command-I (or choose Get Info... from the File menu) and set its permissions to allow you to Read & Write, and apply the settings to all enclosed folders and files.
2. Open Terminal.
3. navigate into the Myst4.app package with the "cd" command. In my case, I typed "cd MIV_demo/Myst4.app". You may need to CD into your Desktop folder or wherever you put the demo folder as well. Mine was directly in my user directory (/Users/samr/).
4. type "chmod a+x Myst4" to allow execution of the executable file.
5. quit Terminal.
6. Control-click on the Myst4 application package and choose "Show Package Contents..." from the contextual menu.
7. Double-click on the Myst4 executable file (it should look like a terminal window with a ">" in it).

after playing the demo for 5 min I gave up...its SLOOOOOOOW and this is on a 1.25ghz pbook.

[sunriser]

well it played ok on my iMac FP 800... maybe you should close all your applications before launching it?

[Weyland-Yutani]

Wow. Thanks for the help livemotion. It worked. I wonder why they are still distributing a borked demo.

It plays ok on a 1.33 GHz iBook (1 GB RAM). Bit laggy at times but playable IMO.

cheers

W-Y