I have the original version of Myst and Riven.
May I play them on a Windows XP system?
Or I need to buy the DVD edition?
Which is the difference between Myst and RealMyst?

I'm sorry if these are outdated query, but I haven't found unmistakable discussion about this topic.

Thanks

Don't know if this affects the PC versions of Myst, but on the Mac the latest version of QuickTime is incompatible with the original Myst.

Myst required the QuickTime version that was supplied on the Myst CD-ROM, which I believe was v 2.5, and it would also work with v 3, but QT versions past that will only work on Myst Masterpiece Edition. Riven seems to work fine with the latest Mac version of QuickTime (v 6.0.3).

This link takes you to a discussion about Quicktime.

Quicktime link

I have Myst Masterpiece Edition (CD), which played fine on my PC running under Windows XP on which QT 6.3 was already installed.

When I went to install Riven (CD's) on the same PC, it ran but didn't have any sound. With the standard install, neither QT or Direct X was loaded because the disk detected that my computer already had it. In order to get Riven to run properly I had to use custom install so that both the QT and the Direct X on the Riven disk would install. I also had to make a modification to the mohawk file. Whenever I run Riven, I need to go to the program compatibility wizard and run under Windows 95 rather than XP.

In another post I saw that Myst Masterpiece Edition needed Quicktime 4. So I downloaded it and it seemed to solve the problems I was having with the solentic age (I wasn't able to get off spaceship without a crash), but I'm still crashing in the Stoneage ship age and Channelwood.
I guess I thought I needed Quicktime 4 but do I really need Quicktime 3?
By the way I have the DVD version of the Masterpiece eddition, that includes Riven and Myst III the Exile.

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Originally posted by wstrohm:
Don't know if this affects the PC versions of Myst, but on the Mac the latest version of QuickTime is incompatible with the original Myst.

Myst required the QuickTime version that was supplied on the Myst CD-ROM, which I believe was v 2.5, and it would also work with v 3, but QT versions past that will only work on Myst Masterpiece Edition. Riven seems to work fine with the latest Mac version of QuickTime (v 6.0.3).

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The original original version of Myst from 1994 (and, AFAIK, the re-release in 1995 to work better with Win95 systems) has a version of QT that doesn't play nicely with QT4+. The work-around is to uninstall Quicktime 3, 4, 5, and/or 6, install Myst and its version of Quicktime, and then install Riven, then finally QT6. I think QT only really started becoming backwards-compatible at version 4... 3 was pretty goofy about it IIRC. Unfortunately, the way Myst was written, some of the changes made to QT after the version on the CD caused the game to stop working correctly... movies wouldn't play or the game wouldn't load at all. MME and the 10th anniversary release shouldn't be affected by these problems, as MME uses QT4 and the DVD release uses 6.3.

HI. New to the boards.

I have a problem just simply installing Myst for the PC on my DVD-ROM. It's the one for 256 colors. I get a problem saying:
16 bit Window Subsystem
CC:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application. I click on ignore and it does the same thing if I were to close it. Anybody has a solotion? Is it because I am using Windows XP?