After reading more archived posts, I realized that the cracked version of AR made me vile and that's why everyone wanted to beat me up. Cool.

Anyway, I finally got the Atari 800 version up and running on Mac OSX 10.3.8.. My problem was that I was getting the ROMS wrong somehow. Having never used anything other than a mac, I didn't understand the history of each model and how it worked, and the ROMs were really, really hard to find. All the links were bad.

The emulator I used was Atari800MacX v2. If it can run AR, than it rocks.

I kind of miss the crisp B/W graphics of the original mac version, but I am really pleased with the complexity of the game. Am I right in thinking that the Atari 800 version has more going on in it than the mac version did? Or maybe I'm just old and my memory is failing.

My next problem is that apparantly I can't leave banks without a joystick. Isn't that just a wee bit odd? So I ordered one, and can only hope that the emulator supports it. And I'm a little freaked at the Atari/Mac keyboard translation (I don't know how to bypass the long intro). But it otherwise looks like a go.

And the best part is that I get to play The Dungeon eventually, which I've never seen!!!!! Honest to god, I've played a lot of games, and I've still never found one like AR. It's the kind of game where the process is far more important than the finish.

The worst part is that I haven't done anything I was supposed to do for 3 days. I get into this trouble-shooting mode and suddenly 7 hours have gone by. I should have been a programmer.

So wish me luck, and any future mac users that amble by should write me an email! I can help!

And if my old AR buddy Noah reads this list, send me a note.....

Susan B from MN
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