sorry if the question's been asked but i've downloaded Myst IV on to my mac and now it won't start. it downloads and everything then i double click on the icon to open it and nothing happens.. help
You are double-clicking on the "Myst4.app" icon on your hard disk, and not the "MystIV_setup.app" ... right? And you are not trying to start it from the DVD, right?
What is the model of your Mac and your OS version?
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Have you followed the steps outlined in this topic?
And I would like to remind everybody that until OS X 10.4.10 Myst IV would never run at all; Ubisoft even acknowledged this in the system requirements printed on the box. If Myst IV works for you then congratulations, that's nothing short of a miracle. I know that's a bad thing to say, but Ubisoft has been very neglectful of its games, even when Myst IV just came out. The only solution is to not buy from Ubisoft.
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... I would like to remind everybody that until OS X 10.4.10 Myst IV would never run at all...
Don't think that is correct. Myst IV came out in 2004 on a Win/Mac DVD, and I bought it right away. The Myst IV manual's "Mac System Requirements," and also the DVD label, state that it needs "OS X 10.2, 10.3 (only)." However, in December 2005 I got a PowerPC G5, which came with Mac OS X 10.4, and Myst IV worked fine on that system. In every Apple update of Tiger, up to and including 10.4.11, I played the game with no trouble.
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MAC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Supported OS: OS X 10.2, 10.3 (ONLY)
I take that to mean that Myst IV was never meant to run in Tiger or Leopard, because they are not OS X 10.2 or 10.3. Until OS X 10.4.4 (upon review I seemed to have fudged the version number there, my mistake) Myst IV didn't work with Tiger, and still doesn't work with some versions/configurations of OS X 10.5.
To the world, you are only one person. But to one person, you are the world. ~unknown
Until OS X 10.4.4 (upon review I seemed to have fudged the version number there, my mistake) Myst IV didn't work with Tiger...
That might be true... now that I think about it, right after I got my G5, I updated Tiger to whatever was current at the time, before using any apps; it might have been 10.4.4.
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