I have the 10th Anniversary DVD edition with Myst, Riven, and Exile, and just played Exile on my intel core duo mac (Myst and Riven would not play). Here's how I did it:
1. On your internal hard drive, within the Applications folder, created a new folder, "Exile"
2. Insert DVD of Exile
3. Open DVD window and manually copy the "M3Data" folder into the Exile folder, and then copy the English folder (or if you want a different language, copy that), and then copy all the other files (except the foreign-language folders you do not need, and DirectX for PC) into the Exile folder you made.
4. If you play Exile as-is, the sound will be choppy. This is because you are running two processors ("core duo"). You can fix the sound problem by turning off one processor. How? Log on to developer.apple.com, and look around for downloads -- the one you want is "CHUD tools" where CHUD is an acronym for Computer Hardware Understanding Development. Download it, then follow the instructions to install it on your hard drive. It includes a number of programs. The one you care about is "processor." When installed you can access it by going to the "apple," and clicking "system preferences" -- it shows up as a green-edged square at the end of the "hardware" items. When it gives you the option to put a "processor" icon in the icon bar, do so -- a gray square will show up, with a 2 in a circle, next to your icons for airport, bluetooth, etc. To turn off a processor, just click on this and choose the option for 1 processor. The 2 in a circle in the icon goes away. You are now running on one processor. You should now be able to play the game fine. When you're done, and exit the game, if you want to run on two processors again, just click on the gray square icon and choose 2 processors.
Now, as to some possible "glitches" you may encounter, see below.
5. You may have been tempted to try to get another Myst game (Myst II Riven) to run by doing for it the kind of process I just described for Exile (copying files from the Riven DVD to a new Riven folder on your hard drive). If you did this, Riven still won't work, and on top of that, it will screw up the sound and other elements of Exile. Drag your new Riven folder to the trash and your Exile experience should work fine.
6. While you are playing Exile, you may find that suddenly the screen blacks out, as if you had triggered a screensaver "hot corner." Guess what -- you did. Underneath the Exile game and its cursor, the computer apparently has an image of the "real," arrow cursor, and it is not always "under" the game "hand" cursor. Sometimes as you are moving the game's "hand" cursor, this invisible (to you) "real" cursor hits a corner of the screen. If you have enabled one or more "hot corners" for your screensaver, this will trigger your screensaver to come on -- blacking out your game screen. You will need to save the game, exit, and change your screensaver preferences to disable all "hot corners."
7. The invisible "real" cursor also, apparently, can sweep over the gray "processor" icon square and, unbeknownst to you, re-activate the second processor. You won't have a clue that this happened, except that suddenly you start experiencing sound problems. Specifically, you lose the actors' voices and certain sound effects such as doors opening and closing, and the sounds of being on various high-speed rides. If you save game, exit, and decide to do other things with your computer, and go to the gray icon box to turn-on both processors, you are surprised to see that both are already active! It is a surprise because the little 2 in a circle is not on the icon, yet when you click on the icon, the check-mark indicates that you have 2 processors running. That is the first time you realize that the sound problems you started experiencing during game play probably were because of inadvertently re-activating the second processor. I don't know why the 2 in the circle didn't pop up when the second processor was activated; perhaps the program for the icon is written in such a way that because the game screen was covering the icon, the 2 in the circle would not be triggered to appear.
8. You need the DVD in the drive to play the game, and it gets hot. I don't know if the heat can cause glitches.
REVIEW: the graphics on the big mac screen are awesome! This is a great game for its immersive 3D full-pan environment, sound, music, and the acting of Brad Dourif as Saavedro.
1. On your internal hard drive, within the Applications folder, created a new folder, "Exile"
2. Insert DVD of Exile
3. Open DVD window and manually copy the "M3Data" folder into the Exile folder, and then copy the English folder (or if you want a different language, copy that), and then copy all the other files (except the foreign-language folders you do not need, and DirectX for PC) into the Exile folder you made.
4. If you play Exile as-is, the sound will be choppy. This is because you are running two processors ("core duo"). You can fix the sound problem by turning off one processor. How? Log on to developer.apple.com, and look around for downloads -- the one you want is "CHUD tools" where CHUD is an acronym for Computer Hardware Understanding Development. Download it, then follow the instructions to install it on your hard drive. It includes a number of programs. The one you care about is "processor." When installed you can access it by going to the "apple," and clicking "system preferences" -- it shows up as a green-edged square at the end of the "hardware" items. When it gives you the option to put a "processor" icon in the icon bar, do so -- a gray square will show up, with a 2 in a circle, next to your icons for airport, bluetooth, etc. To turn off a processor, just click on this and choose the option for 1 processor. The 2 in a circle in the icon goes away. You are now running on one processor. You should now be able to play the game fine. When you're done, and exit the game, if you want to run on two processors again, just click on the gray square icon and choose 2 processors.
Now, as to some possible "glitches" you may encounter, see below.
5. You may have been tempted to try to get another Myst game (Myst II Riven) to run by doing for it the kind of process I just described for Exile (copying files from the Riven DVD to a new Riven folder on your hard drive). If you did this, Riven still won't work, and on top of that, it will screw up the sound and other elements of Exile. Drag your new Riven folder to the trash and your Exile experience should work fine.
6. While you are playing Exile, you may find that suddenly the screen blacks out, as if you had triggered a screensaver "hot corner." Guess what -- you did. Underneath the Exile game and its cursor, the computer apparently has an image of the "real," arrow cursor, and it is not always "under" the game "hand" cursor. Sometimes as you are moving the game's "hand" cursor, this invisible (to you) "real" cursor hits a corner of the screen. If you have enabled one or more "hot corners" for your screensaver, this will trigger your screensaver to come on -- blacking out your game screen. You will need to save the game, exit, and change your screensaver preferences to disable all "hot corners."
7. The invisible "real" cursor also, apparently, can sweep over the gray "processor" icon square and, unbeknownst to you, re-activate the second processor. You won't have a clue that this happened, except that suddenly you start experiencing sound problems. Specifically, you lose the actors' voices and certain sound effects such as doors opening and closing, and the sounds of being on various high-speed rides. If you save game, exit, and decide to do other things with your computer, and go to the gray icon box to turn-on both processors, you are surprised to see that both are already active! It is a surprise because the little 2 in a circle is not on the icon, yet when you click on the icon, the check-mark indicates that you have 2 processors running. That is the first time you realize that the sound problems you started experiencing during game play probably were because of inadvertently re-activating the second processor. I don't know why the 2 in the circle didn't pop up when the second processor was activated; perhaps the program for the icon is written in such a way that because the game screen was covering the icon, the 2 in the circle would not be triggered to appear.
8. You need the DVD in the drive to play the game, and it gets hot. I don't know if the heat can cause glitches.
REVIEW: the graphics on the big mac screen are awesome! This is a great game for its immersive 3D full-pan environment, sound, music, and the acting of Brad Dourif as Saavedro.