MM games for Mac Sierra and above.

[DonnaShelley]

Help! I've played MM on my G4 and 5 no problem. But I'm on Sierra (10.12) and High Sierra mini macs now and I cannot get my Midnight Mansion/Midnight Mansion HD/Midnight Mansion-Haunted Hills games to play. They display a circle with a diagonal line through it. What do I need to do to get the

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versions of Midnight Mansion/s to work? Thanks in advance....:'(

[josephine]

Hi Donna- offhand I think MM will only run with an emulator. This has been a topic of conversation before, maybe someone who has done it can chime in.

If not, when I have time in the next week or two I'll see if I can get MM running in Sierra. The forum isn't as busy as it used to be, but keep checking back

[Semi-Native]

Hi Donna,

Someone posted a link several weeks ago in one of the other forums about this issue. You can read up on it. Note that the article is over a year old, and there are newer versions of the suggested software:

http://www.techradar.com/how-to/how-to-run-old-software-and-games-on-your-mac

I tried Parallels and it didn't work for me (El Capitan, I couldn't get sound to work), but I'm going to try Fusion soon.

[josephine]

You can get Snow Leopard Server DVDs on ebay for $25USD. Also- Fusion is on sale right now for $64. Or you could pick up an older Mac Mini super cheap (seriously, there's one with a starting bid of $6   :o )

[brell]

Strange. The HD version should work

[VernJensen]

Yes, Midnight Mansion HD is the version you want. The red circle with a line through it means that the game is for PPC chips, and needs Rosetta to emulate it. Rosetta was removed from OS X many releases ago --OS X 10.6 was the last version that came with it.

Midnight Mansion HD was a total rewrite of the game that runs fine on modern computers. Or at least it used to... I haven't tested it on the latest OSes.

Midnight Mansion 2: The Haunted Hills was never upgraded to HD, so the only way to run it is with emulators or by rebooting with OS X 10.6 or earlier, as others have pointed out.

Some day I hope to upgrade it to HD too...

[Semi-Native]

Hi, Vern!

Good to hear from you. Hope you're doing well.

[rose]

Wave! Hi Vern!

[brell]

3704130F2B040F12040F610 wrote:

Midnight Mansion HD was a total rewrite of the game that runs fine on modern computers. Or at least it used to... I haven't tested it on the latest OSes.

Works on 10.13.6. on my 9 month old MB pro