![]() ![]() I only really care that people avoid spoilers about the main meta-plot and the last series of puzzles that lead to the finale - please put those in tags if you want to talk about them. You talked about dropping smug hints about knowing answers - what's the spoiler policy? I haven't played A Fool And His Money, but if this works out, I may LP that one as well. So if you like this game, I highly recommend you also check out 3 in three, which is a little more math-puzzle-heavy there's also "At The Carnival," which is more just a collection of puzzles than a whole puzzle-story. No, no, no, hold on, no that's Cliff Johnson's website and he owns all the rights to the games offered there, and he's offering them up for free (as well as his sequel to The Fool's Errand - A Fool And His Money - which he is selling). Wait, what? Abandonware? FILES? MODS?!?!?!!?!? If you follow along and decide you want to get more involved - if I'm too slow for you, or you want to try some of the interactive puzzles yourself, or if you'd like to skip ahead so that you can drop smug hints to everyone else who is reading - you're in luck! The game is available for free from along with the Mac emulator you'll need to run it! Sometimes, though, the puzzles are a little too interactive or mouse-driven for me to be able to share them directly when that happens, I'll gif the puzzle and try to give you an understanding of how it works, how it's solved, and how frustrating it is to try and actually solve it (often, very frustrating). Whenever possible, I'll post the puzzles and step back and give people a day to play around and see if they can come up with solutions. The puzzles aren't brain-teasers like the Professor Leyton games, they're much closer to the standard puzzles you might see in a puzzle book: jigsaws, word searches, crosswords, etc. So, it's a puzzle game? Like Professor Leyton? Awesome, I'm in, give me puzzles! It's still considered one of the great classic puzzle games, an amazing testament to what one guy could do as an indie developer in the '80's, and it was a game I absolutely loved as a kid even though at the time it was only out on Macs so I had to sneak into the school computer lab (where they had the only Mac I knew of) to steal an hour with the game when I should have been in class. Inspired by puzzle mystery books like Masquerade where the puzzles led to a real-life treasure hunt, Johnson wrote a story and wove puzzles into it to lead the player on a story where solving the puzzles would unlock the finale of the story. Johnson, a filmmaker and animator, taught himself how to program just so that he could put together this game. The Fool's Errand is a puzzle game put together by Cliff Johnson. Once downloaded, then unzip doot doot don't mind me just booting up my Mac+ To download the Instruction Manuals, right-click the link All-Manuals.zip and select Save Link As. To quit Mini vMac, select Shut Down under the Specials menu. Under the Apple Menu, select Control Panels and then Sound. Press Ctrl-F to enlarge the window to twice its size. Use the Apple key to invoke the menu commands. The only known solution is to compile a Mini vMac emulator with the same OS as the one on your Mac.Īs fate would have it, I no longer own the latest Apple hardware and OS, and more to the point, the Mini vMac programming process is a mystery to me. And Apple, of course, is renown for its lack of backward compatibility. If the game doesn’t save, then there is a conflict between your Mac’s OS and the OS that was compiled with the Mini vMac emulator.Īpple updates its OS so often that a non-profit like the Mini vMac has a difficult time keeping up with the iterations. ![]() (6) When you launch a game, save it immediately. (3) Once downloaded, double-click MVM-Color-MAC-games.zip. ![]() (2) Locate the Applications folder in the directory and click Save. (1) Right-click the link MVM-Color-MAC-games.zip and select Save Target As. This emulation works on System 10.4.11 and beyond. The Fool’s Errand now creates the Show Finale file properly.ģ in Three and At the Carnival are in color and have adjustable sound. Who brought my classic games back from the grave and home where they belong. Countless thanks and eternal gratitude to David Pfaltzgraff-Carlson ![]()
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