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   Adam Conover (adamconover@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 08:58:17 JST Adam Conover

   Hello Mastodon, I seek your retrogame expertise. I wish to play Barbie: As Sleeping Beauty on a modern Mac. How might I go about doing so? https://archive.org/details/barbie-as-sleeping-beauty_15

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     Adam Conover (adamconover@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 09:00:01 JST Adam Conover

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     I have tried both the above ISO, and the those found on Myabandonware, with the DOSBox fork "Boxer" without any success. https://www.myabandonware.com/game/barbie-as-sleeping-beauty-l5b (MyAbandonware ISOs are said to be corrupted - the one from archive.org loads on my Mac, but Boxer says that it does not contain a DOS executable.) Any ideas? I am trying to get this working for a less tech-savvy friend, so I need the solution to not be TOO complex for an average Mac user to follow.

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     Confrontation Jacen (thejacenallen@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 09:01:27 JST Confrontation Jacen

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     @adamconover this is what mastodon is all about I love it

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     ROMMIX (rommix0@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 09:22:42 JST ROMMIX

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     @adamconover Oh man. Back when Barbie was a 2d animated character. That's not common nowadays.

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     Adam Conover (adamconover@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 09:34:56 JST Adam Conover

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     Okay, I'm halfway to success. Using this ISO on Infinite Mac's System 9.0 installation boots to the title screen, but once there it's frozen - the title doesn't actually animate, nor can I move the mouse. Seems like Infinite Mac perhaps can't actually handle this executable? So close!! https://archive.org/details/BarbieSleepingBeauty

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     Adam Conover (adamconover@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 09:59:02 JST Adam Conover

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     • Mega “Byte” Matt :clippy:

     @megamatt Tried this - couldn't figure out how to install from this archive.org ISO (which other users seem to have had luck on in modern Windows)

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     Mega “Byte” Matt :clippy: (megamatt@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 09:59:03 JST Mega “Byte” Matt :clippy:

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     @adamconover also worthy of a mention is Whisky, a free alternative to Crossover that is easy enough to use: https://getwhisky.app