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Historically this is a great game, one of the first, best video games for PC's. Loved it years ago, and now my daughter will get to wander through the wonder of it. It's not easy to install outside of windows 98 however. I tried it on a new motherboard (Gigabyte MA785G-UD3H) that NEVER had win98se driver files available, using XP Pro SP3 and no matter how much I changed the Compatibility Mode to make it emulate play under win95 or win98, it wouldn't work. I'd get the sound and could see the window frame, but blank screen, no video, sometimes it was worse. I tried it with the latest Quicktime and Direct X, then uninstalled those and tried it under the original QT4 and DX6 which comes on the disc. I tried the various patches suggested around the internet sites. No go. I got closer trying on an XP Home SP2 computer opening the game in Compatibility Mode, but still wouldn't play. If you are having the same problem, try this, it worked for me. If you have XP Pro SP3 like I did, download Microsoft's Virtual PC 2007 for free and install. You can try for XP Home, and it will install with warning boxes appearing. Ignore those, it works with Home SP3 I know. If you have XP Home, you can also try Microsoft's Virtual PC 2004. Virtual PC 2007 should also work for this on Vista systems. Once Virtual PC is installed, run the program and create a NEW virtual machind and new virtual hard drive. clk in Menu area & allow the CD and Floppy drives to be used. Insert your windows 98 SE retail disc in CD drive and boot floppy into drive. Clk on Action in VPC (virtual PC), then CTRL-ALT-DEL to boot. FDISK & FORMAT the virtual HD, install windows 98 from it's CD. Once that's done you can then install MYST into the virtual windows 98. Remember when closing the virtual machine each time to save the changes you made to the virtual hard drive. You can toggle the VPC between a window and full screen mode by holding the right ALT key and pressing enter. When you use the mouse in the VPC area, it will be captured there. To get the mouse back outside the VPC just press the right ALT key and clk outside the VPC area. MYST Masterpiece Edition works perfectly in XP doing it this way. Adjust your settings and you can even get internet access while in the virtual windows 98 system, which is handy if you want to do some screen captures and send to yourself. If you have Sharing set up in XP and are connected to a home LAN, then you can exchange files from the virtual win98 PC to your Host XP by placing in a Shared folder in Network Neighborhood. Because the virtual machine is a closed protected system, you can't move files directly from windows 98 in a VPPC to your XP system's drive, other than by File Sharing. It's not necessary to have File Sharing setup to play the game. Not needed for speed in MYST, but if moving on to Riven you can run the game from a virtual CD drive instead of your actual CD drive. Virtual Clone CD (free) works fine in win98 for this. Create an ISO image from your Myst CD. I used "Burn 4 Free" for that. Place the ISO and the VCCD program into your XP's Shared folder for access in Virtual win98. Copy the ISO file into a win98 folder, install the VCCD program and load the ISO image to create a virtual CD drive. You MUST install MYST from this virtual CD drive for the game to use it. The game will now run and use the virtual CD, speeding it up. Same for Riven's CD's. I have videos showing some of this on youtube under username JoeZyzyx.Read full review
So far the game doesn't like to work with 2 of my computers since they are less than 2 years old. However, my laptop which is 5 years old, it works well. So far the game has basic controls but is very interesting. I bought it because I played it when I was younger and wanted to finish it.
MYST is one of the first and best selling computer games of all time. It was first made to run on the Mac OS. After some time it was made to run on the Windows OS. Mac/PC it is still a great game. There are no time limits, no-one is trying to kill you. and there a really no directions, so the player has to try different things until the right one works. When I first played MYST on my old Macintosh Computer around 1995. I got so into the game that I would think about what I was going to try when I got home from work. It took me about four months to finish the game the right way (there are more than one ending to the game). I remembor feeling like I had nothing to do after work. It had become such a large part of my life for the four months. I hope you enjoy the game; for me it was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed it very muchRead full review
Myst overall is an enjoyable game. It does make you quite frustrated every so often but it one of the only pc games out there that makes you use a lot of thinking, stratagies, and even common sense to beat. The game does get pretty hard and is sometimes hard to understand but why not play a game that exercises your brain? It has its difficult spots but if you are willing to take the challenge then I suggest you try and see how far you can get into the game, maybe even beat it. Enjoy.
I had always liked Myst, but that was years ago. Coming across the game for the latest VISTA OS was a nice surprise. I got it and enjoy reliving the adventure, especially having forgotten many of the tricks, so it is almost new again. The only negative is that most modern games are rapid and lifelike, so if you are not used to the slower paced games from over a decade ago, Myst may not be for you. If you like a puzzle, you may really like this classic.
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