All games run in Classic Mode and require a 256-color setting. The Fool synthesizer soundtrack was lost and gone forever when Apple decided to rewrite the Sound Manager with System 7. Dreadful sorry. Depending on what Mac you have and what system you are running, you may have to do a slight tweak in the unzipping process. Read on for suggestions from other players. If unzipped .zip files appear as .txt, you need to download the latest free version of Stuff it Expander. Also, though a recent Macintosh version of Stuffit Expander will expand the archive correctly, the unzipping process may give files in MacBinary format. If you rename the files by adding ".bin" to the end of the name, then "Stuffit Expander 4.0.1" running within Mini vMac can expand them. "MacBinary II+ 1.0.2" also will work. Intel Macintosh will not run Classic applications. However, if you are technically inclined, you might try the SheepShaver emulator. Also, several people have reported success with Mini vMac. A truly daring person might try to get the Windows XP Mac emulator Executor to run on the Intel Mac. Michael did just that and he writes, “I do have an Intel-based Mac, and I struggled mightily to get Sheepsaver working on it, and ultimately failed in the attempt. However, I'm running Parallels on it (www.parallels.com) to emulate Windows XP at near-native speeds on my Mac. So I downloaded executor and lo and behold, now on my Mac, inside the Windows emulation I'm emulating an old Mac and can finally play the orignal Fool's errand again.” Tiger runs the games... poorly... at least on my iMac. Earlier versions of OS X did work well, however. Also, Bill Coderre reports, “With ‘The Fool’s Errand,’ you will need Stuffit Expander, and for some reason, in Mac OS X Tiger, the expanded files have incorrect names: Fool’s Puzzles.1 - Prologue & Finale.1 - The Fool’s Errand.1 Remove the “.1” on these files — and now the puzzles load and things seem to work.” The same is true with 3 in Three as well. Panther wants to automatically unzip the files as they download. This will cause the game to open to 60% and then stall. Instead download the .zip files as is and expand them with the latest free version of Stuff it Expander. It allows a System 9 menu to access the Apple Menu Monitor directly and set it to 256 colors. OS X works in Classic mode. Launch The Fool’s Errand and then manually set the Monitors to 256 colors. This will allow you to get past the “256 Colors Needed” warning of At the Carnival and 3 in Three. |
