Lars SundströmMar 28
Aaron Giles

Heh, so yeah it's finally been officially revealed that the Mac port of Day of the Tentacle I did also contained a stealth Mac port of the original Maniac Mansion to the Mac.

In the PC version of DoTT you can just use Weird Ed's computer and it dumps you into Maniac, and I had thought (after all these years) I made it work the same way on the Mac. But it turns out my memory had some faulty bits and, while it did work, it only works after you try it five times.

This was a concession to our Mac QA department, which was small, and a bit overwhelmed with the unanticipated ports of DoTT and Sam & Max. They didn't really have the bandwidth to stress test the Maniac Mansion port, so I made it a bit more of an Easter egg than it was on the PC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5AZY3tNFW4&t=1s

Wait, Maniac Mansion was ported to the Macintosh?!?! #MARCHintosh

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Show threadTorbjörn AnderssonMar 27

@aaronsgiles Good thing too, because it says on the box that Maniac Mansion is included. I've heard the "Enhanced Mac Version, Power Macintosh Native" sticker was supposed to cover that, but if so someone must have missed that memo.

Unfortunately the Easter egg doesn't yet work in ScummVM. Much of the work has been done, but there's currently no easy way to even detect the Mac version of Maniac Mansion.

Show threadeduoMar 27
@aaronsgiles Funnily, I knew it was in the PC version from reading about it so when I finally got it for my mac I kept trying until it worked. I always thought it was just the way the easter egg was supposed to work and it was just not pointed out in those reviews.