From: "Gary L. Simmons" <gsimm...@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: Original Marathons Date: 1996/12/14 Message-ID: <32B280C0.51A0@earthlink.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 204194273 references: <dwilson-1112962034560001@dialup31.nas.com> <dptaylor-1312961107020001@news.smu.edu> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: alt.games.marathon x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Macintosh; I; PPC) Dennis Taylor wrote: > > In article <dwilson-1112962034560...@dialup31.nas.com>, dwil...@nas.com wrote: > > > Today I found the original marathon files ( the demos that Bungie used at > >that MacWorld expo ). Do any of you guys know about this? Does anybody > >know if there are any programs that un-invisiblize folders? Thanks ahead > >of time. > > Congrats. You've found the Easter egg on the Marathon 1 CD (For those > of you who don't know what I'm talking about, try poking around the CD for > a while with ResEdit and look for invisible folders). Now, normally you > could just select "Get File/Folder Info" in ResEdit and reset its > Invisible flag, but since it's on a CD that's obviously not an option. > > Solution: Copy the whole folder containing it (it's not very large) > onto your hard drive, and de-invisiblize it there. Voila. Be careful with > the little suckers... they're pretty buggy. Expect to crash and burn a few > times while you're exploring them. > > Have fun! > > dennis taylor > > p.s. If you don't have ResEdit, grab it from this URL: > <ftp://ftptoo.support.apple.com/pub/apple_sw_updates/US/Macintosh/Utilities/ResEdit_2.1.3.hqx> > _________________________________________________________________________ > "A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, | > A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, | Dennis Taylor > Which finds no natural outlet or relief | > In word, or sigh, or tear." --S. Coleridge | dptay...@post.smu.edu > _________________________________________________________________________ > Internet Depression Resources List: http://www.execpc.com/~corbeau/ Dennis, I could only get one of these puppies to run. I emailed Matt about it and here is his response: Subject: Re: Easter egg question Date: Thu, 24 Oct 96 18:11:45 -0500 x-sender: m...@mail.bungie.com From: Matt Soell <m...@bungie.com> To: "Gary L. Simmons" <gsimm...@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 > I can run the >marathon.ppc.noopt version of Marathon. Wow, very odd combination of >Marathon and Pathways, thank you for having patience! That app ran fine, >however, I cannot run marathon.alpha.fat nor _marathon.beta.ppc. Gary- That's the problem with alpha/beta software: it doesn't work on every machine. In fact, those were so unstable that I don't think they actually run for more than 30 seconds on any machine. Matthew Soell Online Liaison Bungie Software m...@bungie.com