jsantiago44
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I've been wanting to play this game for a while but am not a PC user. I was finally able to get it working using the PlayOnMac software.

When I touch the stones to leave the first world (I forget the name of the world) shown in this attached screenshot, I get the message "Error : GetFrontBufferData failed", and the game closes.

I'm curious if anyone else playing this game on a Mac has experienced this.

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[Last edited by jsantiago44 at 01-19-2023 04:17 AM]

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I recommend opening the game in ScummVM and playing it from there. I'm reasonably sure this allows you to fully complete the game on a Mac (just the Steam achievements won't work).

https://scummvm.org/

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jsantiago44
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Radiant wrote:
I recommend opening the game in ScummVM and playing it from there. I'm reasonably sure this allows you to fully complete the game on a Mac (just the Steam achievements won't work).

That's a great idea. I just checked and it looks like this game is not supported by ScummVM. I tried installing it through ScummVM just to be sure, and it wouldn't recognize the .exe file...

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Please ask around on the ScummVM forums. According to their wiki, it has status "good" meaning it should work.

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jsantiago44
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The ScummVM forums helped me with a solution! Rather than trying to extract the game files from the.exe files (not easy on a Mac). They recommended downloading the Linux version, which comes as a zip file with all the game files in a folder. Pointing ScummVM to the unzipped Linux folder worked!

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Oh, you meant the installer exe file? Yeah, that'd be hard. If you get the game from Steam then you would also have all regular files without an installer or ZIP.

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