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Chipwits - finally

Around 10 years ago, Chipwits was one of my emulation "quests". None of the emulators made it work flawlessly without graphical glitch, although with some perseverence, I did make it run once on my real Mac Plus (1.5 meg ram, using the ramdisk trick), but never again, strangely. Emulators were no-go, and I was always downloading the latest version of mini-vMac to see if the compatibility was sorted out.

I logged in this week to find that a new file version was available on mac garden and I promptly went to try it out with the most recent version of mini-vMac. It launched, but the graphics were corrupted (black rectangles where icons should be in-game).

I made it work by getting a .zip file out there in the internet of someone who forced custom compilations of mini-vMac with every possible settings under the sun. I took one for Mac Plus with 1 Meg of memory. However, no matter how hard I tried, the file found on this Mac Garden page simply will not run (once I've of course uncompressed the .sit archive and put it in its own .dsk image for me to use with mini-vMac). What *DID* work was my own old .dsk image on a 400 kb low density, single sided volume from previous attempts nearly 10 years ago. I still had that file in my mac emulation folders and it works perfectly. I'm wondering if I should upload this volume on Mac Garden.

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Yes by all means upload it, would love to play this game. If you can include a pointer to your mini vmac build it would help as well. Thanks in advance.

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I uploaded the file and a bunch of comments, but only the file shows. I'm not too good with the upload forms on this iteration of Mac Garden.

For the emulator, it's possible to use the Mini-vMac's website, which contains a compilation service to create a variation on the .exe for your platform, to demand a RAM quantity, default speed, etc. Here's a PC version of mini-vMac with everything you need for Chipwits:
http://www.gryphel.com/c/var/latest/c/mnvm1159-3.3.3-wx86.bin.zip

if it ever falls off the available links, you can create your own here: http://www.gryphel.com/c/var/index.html
and wait something like a day or so for the link to appear.

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One more thing, the Chipwits400k.zip file that I uploaded on Mac Garden's chipwits page can't be downloaded for some reason by browsing that page normally. The only way i can get the link to work is to first EDIT that webpage and click on the file's link in the edit page. I have no idea why the link doesn't work under the normal view.

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The file that MuOn uploaded is now downloadable from the Chipwits page. This delay before a file can be downloaded directly from the page is normal.