Mindshadow
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Interplay |
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mindshadow.zip (230.85 KB)
MD5: 1a645f10cff57fc0c6e4c1d1dc9da24c For System 1 - 5
"You find yourself lost in the middle of nowhere. In the middle of a mystery. Who are you? Where will you go? What will you do? London. Luxembourg. Across oceans and continents you struggle. For answers. For your identity. And for the faceless betrayer who left you to perish. This brilliantly wrought mystery echoes with intricate challenges and unexpected reversals. Yet skillfully, it speaks to you in direct, simple prose. And its greatly expanded vocabulary allows you to talk to the computer in plain English. And that means hours of true enjoyment for both the novice and the advanced adventurer."
The Macintosh version of Mindshadow finally makes it to the internet! Much thanks to Daxeria for helping crack the copy protection.
Read more about Mindshadow at Baf's Guide to the Interactive Fiction Archive and Mobygames.com.
Uses the same game engine as Interplay's later adventure, Borrowed Time.
CompatibilityArchitecture: 68k
Be sure to play the game with the 128k Macintosh variant of Mini vMac. Item images will not display with the default Mac Plus build.
Comments
@CuteEwok: I haven't tried it on a physical Plus, but it appears to be one of those games that requires a 128K or 512K Mac, nothing higher.
Just wondering, is this game playable without a keyboard? I'd love to play this on my Plus.
@tijazer: I have not tried this game, but if what the Compatibility notice says above is accurate:
Then this will likely hold true for actual 68000 hardware. That is, it requires a Mac model even earlier than a Macintosh Plus. The 1st Macintosh in fact (one with 128k RAM).
Do you have an external SCSI hard drive attached to the Plus also? If so it might be worth trying the game booting up from your regular System Software and running the game from the external if possible.
[Edit] Also, I believe the system on this game's disk predates the earliest system that shipped with the Mac Plus, so its unlikely to boot the Plus.
How can I write this to a real disk for use on a real Mac Plus? I managed to copy all the files but the disk will not boot!
Most 1984 games had their own System (like Finder 1.1) and work best if you just start Mini vMac, drag the .dsk file to the blinking question mark and let it do its stuff. NOTE: When you die, don't click N (that you dont' want to try again) cause it will cause Mini to get an unhandled exception (probably ejected the original disk from your 128 single floppy (no HD) computer.) Ahh, the nostalgia! Instead, Reset Mini (control-r) and follow Mini vMac direction.
Looks intriguing but I couldn't progress much further than the first couple of screens. I'm willing to give it another shot though.
Typing "Help Condor" doesn't always provide the most helpful clues! Check out this bizarre reply he gave me:
Doesn't this work in OS 7?
Thank you very much old Mac Garden fellow Daxeria, and jkheiser!
Wow, nice to see this! Always like to see the earliest Mac games show up here.