Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
This black and white port of 'Space Quest III' from Sierra was released in 1989. By most account, a Macintosh Plus wasn't the best machine to run it due to the sluggishness of the gameplay, though officially, it was supported as indicated on the box.
The system requirements indicate all you need is 1 Mb RAM for the b&w version and 2 Mb RAM for the color one. A "MIDI" module is supported provided it is a Roland MT-32 or a CM-32L or a CM-64. This replaces the music and all sound effects. Otherwise, you can use the default Macintosh 4-tone synth (which still sounds good, but nothing like a Roland).
Presented here is the intro to the game. I've sped up 8x the loading of the game since nothing at all happens, except the MIDI message that shows up on the screen of my physical MT-32.
Gear used:
-Macintosh Plus (platinum) with 4Mb of RAM equipped with BlueSCSI and FloppyEMU
-A Roland MT-32
-a Pocket Mac MIDI adapter that link my Mac's modem port to my Roland MT-32's MIDI IN port.
The video signal comes straight from 4 wires from inside the Macintosh Plus, into a RGB2HDMI device that I self-assembled by using the info in this project: github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI
This black and white port of 'Space Quest III' from Sierra was released in 1989. By most account, a Macintosh Plus wasn't the best machine to run it due to the sluggishness of the gameplay, though officially, it was supported as indicated on the box.
The system requirements indicate all you need is 1 Mb RAM for the b&w version and 2 Mb RAM for the color one. A "MIDI" module is supported provided it is a Roland MT-32 or a CM-32L or a CM-64. This replaces the music and all sound effects. Otherwise, you can use the default Macintosh 4-tone synth (which still sounds good, but nothing like a Roland).
Presented here is the intro to the game. I've sped up 8x the loading of the game since nothing at all happens, except the MIDI message that shows up on the screen of my physical MT-32.
Gear used:
-Macintosh Plus (platinum) with 4Mb of RAM equipped with BlueSCSI and FloppyEMU
-A Roland MT-32
-a Pocket Mac MIDI adapter that link my Mac's modem port to my Roland MT-32's MIDI IN port.
The video signal comes straight from 4 wires from inside the Macintosh Plus, into a RGB2HDMI device that I self-assembled by using the info in this project: github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI
