Escape from Monkey Island problems

[Dimitris1980]

I have a problem with Escape from Monkey Island on my Power Macintosh G3 Minitower (specs: 300 mhz, 256mb ram, 120gb hard drive, 32mb ATI Radeon, zip drive,  dvd drive, Apple AV Personality card, firewire/usb pci card, Mac OS 8.1 & 9.1 installed). A msg comes up when i try to run the game where it says that the folder contains a slash(\) or backslash(/) or period(.) and that i have to remove the character from the appropriate folder's name and try again. As i remember i tried also to run the game using the on board video card (6mb full ram) without success. Any suggestions?

Note 1: The game runs perfectly on my Imac G3 (500mhz, 1gb ram, 40gb hard drive, 16mb ati video card) and on my Powermac G4 MDD (single cpu 1,25ghz, 320gb hard drive, 32mb gforce video card)

Note 2: I have also one more Power Macintosh G3 Minitower and it has exactly the same problem with this game.

Regards

Dimitris from Greece

 

[olePigeon]

What's the name of the HDD or System Folder on your G3?

You mentioned you have 8.1 and 9.1 installed, do any of those contain "8.1" or "9.1" in the name?  If so, then that "." in the name could be the issue.

 

[Dimitris1980]

I have an 120gb hard drive with three partitions. The name of the one hard drive partition is MAC OS 8.1 and on the other MAC OS 9.2.2 (i installed yesterday Mac OS 9.2.2). I tried the game on both of these partitions and the same msg appears. I do not have this problem on my Imac G3 & Powermac MDD G4.

 

[olePigeon]

Try renaming the partitions to something without a point in it such as "MacOS 8" and "MacOS 9" (without the ".1" and ".2.2")

 

[Dimitris1980]

It worked! I just changed the name of the hard drive and the game begun.

 

[olePigeon]

That's what I suspected.  Good info to have.

 

[Dimitris1980]

Incredible olePigeon. It was so easy and i didn't expect that. I have prepared my Power Macintosh G3 Minitower with lots of games but i want to play especially this. So yesterday i erased the game because i had the minimum installation and i did the full installation. It runs perfectly with the ATI Radeon 7000 32mb Mac Edition (rest of specs G3 300mhz, 256mb ram, 120gb hard drive, dvd drive, zip drive).

Note: As i remember, i think i had the same problem with one more Lucasarts game.

 

[olePigeon]

Yeah.  When they finally port those DOS games to Macintosh, sometimes they bring with them all those silly DOS idiosyncrasies.

 

[Dimitris1980]

Thank you for your help olePigeon.