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
Barbie: as Sleeping Beauty (PC) : Barbie : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Barbie: as Sleeping Beauty - (PC)

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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.
Barbie as Sleeping Beauty

Remember Barbie as Sleeping Beauty, an old video game from 1999? Download it and play again on MyAbandonware.

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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
Whisky - A modern Wine wrapper for macOS built with SwiftUI

Run the latest DirectX 12 titles effortlessly on your Mac with Whisky!

@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) https://archive.org/details/BarbieSleepingBeauty
Barbie as Sleeping Beauty (1999) : Barbie Software & Mattel Media : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

ISO Image of the 1999 game Barbie as Sleeping Beauty, if this violates copyright in anyway, then i will take it down

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@adamconover Sorry for the delayed response (timezones!). This is definitely a weird case, and I see why it's unable to open now—it's a Windows *and* an (old) Mac disc. Some discs had both. You can extract the windows files with the Unarchiver (there's some interesting audio files), but I couldn't get those to work with Wine, sadly. I think your best bet would be to use VirtualBox to run Windows 98, and set that up for the person you wanted to, sorry.

@adamconover @megamatt I don’t feel super qualified here, as I’m not a Mac user, but I did run this in WINE on Linux yesterday and it pretty much just worked.

So, if WINE is available for Mac, you should be able to:

  • run wine SETUP.exe to install the game
  • run winefile
  • navigate to where the game can be launched (C:\users\Public\Desktop\Barbie As Sleeping Beauty.Ink)
  • launch it.