Comments on: Playable Classics: Fool's Errand http://tleaves.com/2005/04/06/playable-classics-fools-errand/ Creativity x Technology Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:09:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andrew Plotkin http://tleaves.com/2005/04/06/playable-classics-fools-errand/comment-page-1/#comment-1198 Andrew Plotkin Fri, 08 Apr 2005 04:30:33 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=347#comment-1198 Hey, thanks for the complimentary comments. My biggest regret about System's Twilight, these days, is that it's a 68k Mac binary. (Designed to work in System 6 *and* 7!) So you have to futz around with emulators to play it. (New Macs don't come with Classic mode ready-installed. I've considered putting up a Basilisk "Twilight to go!" package for Windows users, but I'd have to include Mac ROMs *and* a Mac System disk image, both of which can get me yelled at by the powers that be.) Yes, I could port it to something (Java? Flash? TADS-3?) but I'd basically be rewriting it from scratch, and the prospect wearies me. Somebody invent immortality, please. I have a to-do list. In the meantime, if you *do* have a way to run old Mac applications, I commend the thing to you. And not just because I wrote it. And I, too, am counting the weeks until Cliff Johnson ships _The Fool and His Money_. Hey, thanks for the complimentary comments.

My biggest regret about System’s Twilight, these days, is that it’s a 68k Mac binary. (Designed to work in System 6 *and* 7!) So you have to futz around with emulators to play it. (New Macs don’t come with Classic mode ready-installed. I’ve considered putting up a Basilisk “Twilight to go!” package for Windows users, but I’d have to include Mac ROMs *and* a Mac System disk image, both of which can get me yelled at by the powers that be.)

Yes, I could port it to something (Java? Flash? TADS-3?) but I’d basically be rewriting it from scratch, and the prospect wearies me. Somebody invent immortality, please. I have a to-do list.

In the meantime, if you *do* have a way to run old Mac applications, I commend the thing to you. And not just because I wrote it.

And I, too, am counting the weeks until Cliff Johnson ships _The Fool and His Money_.

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