Frustrations · 1:05am Jul 25th, 2015
I'm trying to finish my fics, but my mind keeps drifting to what comes after: possible new entries for the Order-naries Equestria and the fourth installment of the Aitran series.
The Aitran 4 thing has led to my biggest current frustration, however: getting at the source material. I've gone off at length about my issues getting Myst games to run on my computers over the years over on my tumblr, so I'll just summarize here. Myst IV: Revelation refuses to cooperate with me. It installed fine, but something between my graphics processor, CD/DVD drive, and the Myst IV disc that contains the actual "play the game" data has gone kaput so that the best I can get after waiting a couple minutes for the disc to even read is a screenshot menu on my desktop that I cannot interact with. It's frustrating me to no end because I've been waiting eleven days for the game to arrive in the mail, and a lot of that time my mind has been filled with nostalgic memories of the Ages of Myst IV and ideas of how to tweak them to fit ponies. All that has come to a frustrating halt by non-cooperative software.
It probably not a software problem but a hardware problem depending on how old your PC is. You may have to bite the bullet and get it off Steam... Which it isn't, damn they got I, II, I think III and V.
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It aint on Steam. Nor GOG.com for that matter. I've checked. They've only got the various editions of Myst, Riven, and Myst V.
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Why would they skip them?
Beyond those I have no suggestions
Ah, sorry about that. Good luck.
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Perhaps you just need to bite the opposite bullet, such as it were, and see about getting a vintage computer to run the game on. Granted that might be a rather overly extreme expenditure just for the sake of a fanfiction. Then again, outdated hardware tech tends to be pretty cheep, assuming you can actually still find a working model at least.
Shame really though, video games being a media that can so rapidly be lost as technology marches on. I can still remember a game I had that was less than a year old, yet when I replaced my computer that same year I was suddenly no longer able to run it because the OS was just no longer compatible and emulation tech (or at least easy access thereto) just wasn't option back then.