Thanks for posting your myst video. My system is linux mint 10 64 bit. I spent quite a bit of time getting myst running in my dosbox/win3.11 install. Dosbox is linux version .74-1 which I downloaded from Mint package manager. Myst cd I have is labeled win 3.1 and win 95, I made an iso from it. I made an iso from Windows 3.11. To make this come together, I followed an excellent tutorial found at this link valid as of December 28 2011.
The basis of the engine that Myst uses is rooted in QuickTime. All the videos are from the Macintosh version and the executable heavily draws from QuickTime for many features such as the dithering of the videos to 256 colors.
@clone2727a They would have needed to write a special version of QuickTime for DOS, but it would have been possible; QuickView for DOS can play .MOV files.
@clone2727a That said, there are DOS extenders out there that make it binary compatible with many WIN32 apps. I've used HXRT + HXGUI to run Earthsiege 2 in DOS, complete with .avi movies. Pretty nifty if you ask me.
I have the original myst also and have been going crazy trying to get it to work in vista. Can you please post instructions on how you got this to work, or point me to a site where I can get the instructions. I have seen some references to dosbox on some other sites, but they are fairly vague.
Aw man, this brings back fond memories of me playing this on my dad's old Win98 PC. Pretty cool to see this running on DOSBox, thanks for uploading this! :)
Getting Win3.1 up and running in any VM is a real "trick" . . . especially with audio and graphics drivers . . . and with QuickTime . . . to run a classic game like MYST. It isn't easy, especially finding all the correct drivers to do it. I've got DOS 6.x, Win3.1, Win95 and Win98 fully installed in VMs just to run old software that has no current version or equivalent. Yeah . . . it *can* be useful. You just haven't stumbled across a need for it.
Never had much of a reason to use a VM 3.11 works pretty well in Dosbox so I just run it as such and not like for that area I need power ... benchmarks tell me with throttling off that I have a 334 to 409 mhz 486 ... lol depending on which of my computers I am using. Also no Hardware acceleration yet at that time ... but win98 is a different story ... to bad there is not a good VM with some D3D. glide or open GL support for win98 *sigh*
Thanks for posting your myst video. My system is linux mint 10 64 bit. I spent quite a bit of time getting myst running in my dosbox/win3.11 install. Dosbox is linux version .74-1 which I downloaded from Mint package manager. Myst cd I have is labeled win 3.1 and win 95, I made an iso from it. I made an iso from Windows 3.11. To make this come together, I followed an excellent tutorial found at this link valid as of December 28 2011.
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56greydog 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
how did you get your windows 3.1 in dosbox to be running under 256 color?
PORSLEY 8 months ago
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Mahoganist 2 years ago
cool graphics, but why the game is for win 3.1 ? DOS can handle the graphics
dushanostoich 2 years ago
DOS couldn't handle QuickTime
clone2727a 2 years ago
but AVI can
dushanostoich 2 years ago
The basis of the engine that Myst uses is rooted in QuickTime. All the videos are from the Macintosh version and the executable heavily draws from QuickTime for many features such as the dithering of the videos to 256 colors.
clone2727a 2 years ago
@clone2727a They would have needed to write a special version of QuickTime for DOS, but it would have been possible; QuickView for DOS can play .MOV files.
dsydebot 1 year ago
@dsydebot I'm sure Apple wasn't going to write a QuickTime player for DOS.
clone2727a 1 year ago
@clone2727a That said, there are DOS extenders out there that make it binary compatible with many WIN32 apps. I've used HXRT + HXGUI to run Earthsiege 2 in DOS, complete with .avi movies. Pretty nifty if you ask me.
dsydebot 1 year ago
I have the original myst also and have been going crazy trying to get it to work in vista. Can you please post instructions on how you got this to work, or point me to a site where I can get the instructions. I have seen some references to dosbox on some other sites, but they are fairly vague.
jhawkgrl19 2 years ago
Aw man, this brings back fond memories of me playing this on my dad's old Win98 PC. Pretty cool to see this running on DOSBox, thanks for uploading this! :)
SonicTheJackrabbit 2 years ago
hey, I think this is great, dont mind sbdba hes got sand up his hoo-hoo. some people cant appreciate the past.
I might have to go install that now :D
MegaworMxPpZ 2 years ago
Wow, so you got an OS from 1992 to work... how useful...sigh
sbdba 2 years ago
Getting Win3.1 up and running in any VM is a real "trick" . . . especially with audio and graphics drivers . . . and with QuickTime . . . to run a classic game like MYST. It isn't easy, especially finding all the correct drivers to do it. I've got DOS 6.x, Win3.1, Win95 and Win98 fully installed in VMs just to run old software that has no current version or equivalent. Yeah . . . it *can* be useful. You just haven't stumbled across a need for it.
jlind52 2 years ago
Never had much of a reason to use a VM 3.11 works pretty well in Dosbox so I just run it as such and not like for that area I need power ... benchmarks tell me with throttling off that I have a 334 to 409 mhz 486 ... lol depending on which of my computers I am using. Also no Hardware acceleration yet at that time ... but win98 is a different story ... to bad there is not a good VM with some D3D. glide or open GL support for win98 *sigh*
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AxiomofDiscord 2 years ago