Getting Our Older Games To Work On Macintosh OS XSpiderweb Software has quite a few older games which do not currently run natively on OS X. What this means, in regular English, is that they will work just fine, but your computer has to have the older Macintosh operating system (OS 9, the "Classic Environment") on it. Fortunately, all Macintoshes come with the program (the Classic environment, i.e. the old operating system) you need to install to run the older games. Unfortunately, Apple has stopped installing it for you. If you install it yourself, the games will work. To install the old operating system, get the CD "Additional Software and Apple Hardware Test", which came with your computer. Insert it and choose to install OS 9. You will then be able to run all older Macintosh programs. For more information and full instructions, go to the appropriate page on the Apple web site. We have no plans to alter to make them run natively on OS X. Reworking all of our older programs would take a considerable amount of time, and we need to spend that time making new games, and thus staying in business. We apologize for any trouble this causes, and I'm sure we join you in wishing Apple had not made the recent changes that made this step so difficult. Also for Mac OS X users, if you are having problems getting our older games to register properly, go into your Classic mode preferences, Advanced tab, and make sure the "Use Mac OS 9 preferences from your home" box in unchecked. - Jeff Vogel |
