Why I buy this one ?
- Collection includes Myst Masterpiece, Riven, and Myst III: Exile
- Explore new ages, dramatic storylines, and incredible sights and sounds
- Engineered to be fully compatible with Windows XP
- Exclusive interview with Rand Miller
- Footage from the making of Myst III: Exile and Riven

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"First two are great", I've been a fan of the original Myst game since I was ten years old or so, and my family played it together then. It took us, I don't know, a few months.

Then, awhile later, I played Riven with my younger brothers. We spent a couple of years puzzling it out, but finally, we got to the end with a little tiny help from a hint guide online (a choice I regret, and if I play Myst 4, it will be without hints).

Which brings us to the point when we bought all three together. Riven is just so much better on DVD, Myst Masterpiece is lovely (if you've finished it, read the hints, they're hilarious!), but Exile was somewhat lacking. It just didn't have the same feel as the original two. But it was satisfying in the end, just way too easy. We finished it in a week of concentrated effort.

I would have liked the game makers to package the discs in jewel cases, since DVDs can get scratched when they are left in envelopes. Also, there was no included installer for Macintosh anywhere, just a little read me with instructions for installing by hand. I had no problem doing it, but they really could have shown more respect for the platform that Myst originated on.

A plus side of the anniversary edition is the making of videos included with Riven and Exile. Myst comes with an interview with Rand Miller, detailing Uru, and it ends up being a commercial. Oh well. The other movies are great.

All together, this is a satisfying package of nostalgia, even for somebody in their teens who remembers growing up with Myst and Riven.

"Myst 10th Anniversary DVD Edition", My friend got me hooked on the Myst games with this so I had to buy it for my self so I could play it whenever I wanted. So far Myst III: Exile is my favorite but the first two are fun as well.

"works on Vista with some tinkering (read below)", First, reviews of the actual gameplay can be found elsewhere. My major point here is to share how one could likely get this to work on Windows Vista. This works, in the least, for Myst Masterpiece and the 5-CD Riven (which I had earlier), so I would think it very likely it'd work for the DVD Riven and probably also for Myst Exile (if Myst Exile didn't work already). I got this info from a Google search[...]

There're 3 things you need to do/know to get the game working:

1) Set the correct compatibility mode for the shortcut to each game. This is Windows 95 for Myst and, I think, for Riven as well. I also gave the program administrative privileges in case there were issues with saving files; I'm not sure if this makes a difference.

2) Copy the System32 Quicktime files that "come with" each game into the Program Files directory for the respective game. Of course, it's probably a bad idea to have multiple versions of Quicktime installed (if it's even possible), so this gets around the issue that the different games appear to use different (and, more importantly, now outdated) versions of Quicktime. Here's what I did for Myst:
- uninstall the current version of Quicktime (happened to be the latest Quicktime Alternative for me, which didn't seem to work with Myst)
- install the version of Quicktime that comes on the Myst DVD
- go to the C:\Windows\System32 directory
- find the Quicktime files just installed; I found 3 (they should have an old "modified" date, I think 2003 if I remember correctly; to figure out precisely which files are relevant, cross reference the dates of the files in the System32 folder with the dates of the files in the Program Files\Quicktime folder)
- copy these Quicktime files from the System32 folder to the Myst program files folder (it's possible not all of these are necessary, but more doesn't seem to hurt)
- uninstall this version of Quicktime and, if necessary, delete the System32 files if they weren't cleaned up
Myst worked for me afterwards. I used a similar procedure for the 5-CD Riven; I'm thinking it likely that the DVD Riven will be fixed that way as well. Additionally, for Riven, I read somewhere to set "fEnableAudioProxy=true" on the appropriate line within Mohawk.w32 (a text file found in the Riven program files folder). Not sure if this is necessary, but I read somewhere to try that first, before installing and copying Quicktime, so I did; it didn't work, and I just left it.

3) I had trouble saving games initially since there was no line editor to enter the desired file name in the "Save As..." dialog box, so I created dummy (empty) files with the correct extension (*.mys for Myst; *.riv for Riven) in the program files folder to overwrite with the saved game. Annoying, but easy to work around.

So all in all, it takes maybe 5 - 10 minutes to get all this done for each game, which isn't very much time. If you're not very "computer literate", your best bet is to get a friend to help you. The trickiest part is finding the installed Quicktime files in the System32 folder, which I did based on the modified date (I just found a group of files with the an "old" modified date that matched at least one of the files in the Program Files\Quicktime folder).

Since getting Myst and Riven to work, I haven't had any issues with the game freezing or anything. My biggest "functional" complaint, though, is that it completely taxes one of my cores at 100% ALL THE TIME. Do Myst and Riven really not know how to just sit pretty and display a still image while I decide what to do next?! This has a tendency to make my laptop super hot, which has a tendency to make my laptop super slow, so once in a while I have to take a break to let it cool down. If your computer has heating/cooling issues, beware.

Also, to reiterate some hints from another post:

- Read everything.
- Check every direction at every location.
- Pay attention to sounds, they are often subtly important.
- Look behind every door (both sides).

Good luck!

- Jeff


"The Best Game Ever!", This game is awesome! If you love to solve puzzles and you like a good mystery then this is the game for you. I have enjoyed playing this game and you will too.

"Good adventure game that requires some thinking", This is a decent game that requires some thinking, can get frustrating at times as a lot of the myst games require you to be very observant and look everywhere and remember which paths you have already taken. The puzzles are good once you find them. Recommend this game for whomever was a fan of the original Myst.

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"Only for Mac OS 9 & OS 10 (you have to have both on your computer)", I purchased this product thinking that I could run the entire 3 CD set on my Mac OS 10 operating system. Unfortunately I had to buy it to find out that only Myst III (Exile) works w/OS 10. The other two CDs (Myst I - Masterpiece Edition & Myst II - Riven), will only work w/OS 9. I don't have OS 9 on my computer and it's no longer available.

The description section for Myst 10th Anniversary DVD Edition is definitely lacking crucial information. It needs to say that it will work with Mac, but only if you have OS 9 AND OS 10 installed on your computer. This way no one else will waste their money.

"Myst and Riven don't work, Exile does...", Just like the reviewer below, the first two myst games on the DVD do not work for me, on my Dell 8200, running WindowsXP home SP2. And no its not becuase I have outdated drivers, everything in this dell is up to date with 2007 drivers from Nvidia to my sound card to inf intel drivers and bios aswell, even got the latest java and DirectX nov 2007 update as of now. I've tried everything, went online, looked up imfo, and found that I was not the only one that this has happen to. I wish I woulda realise and taken it serious from other reviewers on here that had problems running this turkey. Thankfully, Exile does work and I got my copy of Myst: Revelations in today awell, I guess that makes up for the lost of not being able to play Myst 1 and 2. Sad though, that I will never get to play myst 1 and 2, ohwell, its not my fault. Most the blame goes towards whoever decided to label this game box as Windows Compatible and Mac Compatible. The other blame goes toward Ubisoft for being lazy in revamping the first two games and not having enough beta testers. I'm not sure if I will keep this or return it and just get the Myst: Exile game. I see a rare few has gotten it to run on XP, but this is so wow to me, my PC is soo up to date and I keep it defragmented like crazy, and everything is neat and tidy, !!!Warning, just beware, there's a 50% chance it may work on your PC!!!, make that a 30% chance, sheesh...

"Running Myst III Exile on "core duo" intel Mac", I have the 10th Anniversary DVD edition with Myst, Riven, and Exile, and just played Exile on my intel core duo mac (Myst and Riven would not play). Here's how I did it:
1. On your internal hard drive, within the Applications folder, created a new folder, "Exile"
2. Insert DVD of Exile
3. Open DVD window and manually copy the "M3Data" folder into the Exile folder, and then copy the English folder (or if you want a different language, copy that), and then copy all the other files (except the foreign-language folders you do not need, and DirectX for PC) into the Exile folder you made.
4. If you play Exile as-is, the sound will be choppy. This is because you are running two processors ("core duo"). You can fix the sound problem by turning off one processor. How? Log on to developer.apple.com, and look around for downloads -- the one you want is "CHUD tools" where CHUD is an acronym for Computer Hardware Understanding Development. Download it, then follow the instructions to install it on your hard drive. It includes a number of programs. The one you care about is "processor." When installed you can access it by going to the "apple," and clicking "system preferences" -- it shows up as a green-edged square at the end of the "hardware" items. When it gives you the option to put a "processor" icon in the icon bar, do so -- a grey square will show up, with a 2 in a circle, next to your icons for airport, bluetooth, etc. To turn off a processor, just click on this and choose the option for 1 processor. The 2 in a circle in the icon goes away. You are now running on one processor. You should now be able to play the game fine. When you're done, and exit the game, if you want to run on two processors again, just click on the grey square icon and choose 2 processors.
Now, as to some possible "glitches" you may encounter, see below.
5. You may have been tempted to try to get Riven to run by copying its files from the Riven DVD to a new Riven folder. If you did this, Riven still won't work, and on top of that, it will screw up the sound and other elements of Exile. Drag your Riven folder to the trash and your Exile experience should work fine.
6. While you are playing Exile, you may find that suddenly the screen blacks out, as if you had triggered a screensaver "hot corner." Guess what -- you did. Underneath the Exile game and its cursor, the computer apparently has an image of the "real," arrow cursor, and it is not always "under" the game "hand" cursor. Sometimes as you are moving the game's "hand" cursor, this invisible (to you) "real" cursor hits a corner of the screen. If you have enabled one or more "hot corners" for your screensaver, this will trigger your screensaver to come on -- blacking out your game screen. You will need to save the game, exit, and change your screensaver preferences to disable all "hot corners."
7. The invisible "real" cursor also, apparently, can sweep over the grey "processor" icon square and, unbeknownst to you, re-activate the second processor. You won't have a clue that this happened, except that suddenly you start experiencing sound problems. Specifically, you lose the actor's voices and certain sound effects such as doors opening and closing, and the sounds of being on various high-speed rides. If you save game, exit, and decide to do other things with your computer, and go to the grey icon box to turn-on both processors, you are surprised to see that both are already active! It is a surprise because the little 2 in a circle is not on the icon, yet when you click on the icon, the check-mark indicates that you have 2 processors running. That is the first time you realize that the sound problems you started experiencing during game play probably were because of inadvertently re-activating the second processor. I don't know why the 2 in the circle didn't pop up when the second processor was activated; perhaps the program for the icon is written in such a way that because the game screen was covering the icon, the 2 in the circle would not be triggered to appear.
8. You need the DVD in the drive to play the game, and it gets hot. I don't know if the heat can cause glitches.
REVIEW: the graphics on the big mac screen are awesome! This is a great game for its immersive 3D full-pan environment, sound, music, and the acting of Brad Dourif as Saavedro.

"riven", myst 10th anniversary edition did work on my computer for the first game, but did not work on "riven" the 2nd game. I looked up various links to find out why and ended up erasing some stuff on my computer I didn't want to. I am not computer smart, but I guess that's what I get for purchasing a out of date game. So far #3, "exile" is working, but Iam really disappointed, so if you have and XP computer I would not recomend this edition,(dvd).

"Eh, its ok", Ok I will be the first to admit im not a big Myst fan. I got this pack for my partner, hes more of a Mysty than I am. Myst 1 and Myst 3 worked fine (minus a couple of mionor bugs that didnt effect gameplay). But i could not get Riven to work for the life of me. He even tried on his laptop and it didnt work. I use Windows XP home editiona and he uses NT on his laptop. Im not a hardware expert but we met all required requirements and it still did not work. So overall I say IF youre a big Myst fan than maybe this pack is worth it. The price is good but remember you get what you pay for. If you want this pack just to try it out than go for it but dont expect Riven to work. This was especialy frustrating because Riven was the only Myst game in teh pack I have never played.

**In the future I would REALLY LOVE for companies to put down the actual system requirements rather than what MIGHT get by. So many games now have 'hidden' requirements that not all of us have and I WILL NOT update my hardware just for a video game I may or may not like.