Red Orb / Cyan
Mindscape

"Myst has some of the most flat out, drop dead gorgeous scenery in the entire graphic adventure genre...Myst makes use of detailed textures to give all its surfaces an authentic, organic appearance...The colors are amazing (though I think that they made use of every single shade of blue available to map the sky of the different Ages). In keeping with the update theme of Masterpiece, Cyan reprogrammed the over 2500 screenshots from 256 colors to a clearer 24-bit scale. Unfortunately, unless you have a really nice monitor, it is difficult to see the differences in the graphic quality.

"The sound effects are identical to the original game, and have been enhanced to a higher bit-rate to accompany the updated visuals. They are still beautifully ambient and organic. That's about all there is to say there. (Shrugs)

"FMV in Myst Masterpiece is identical to that found in the original version. Again, the colors have been redone for 24-bit clarity and do come out to be less blocky than their predecessors. (And the brief shots of Sirrus and Achenar with snake tongues are still creepy as hell.)" -

C-, Hall of Fame (original Myst)

PC REQUIREMENTS:

Pentium 75 (133 recommended)
Win95/98
Direct x 6.1 or higher
Quicktime 4.0 or higher
16 Megs ram (32 Megs ram recommended)
4x CD-ROM
DirectX-compatible sound card and DirectX-compatible video card capable of 24 bit or better color graphics at 640 x 480
30 megs of HD space
Mouse

MAC REQUIREMENTS:

PowerPC Mac
16 MB installed
640 x 480 color monitor, thousands of colors (millions of colors recommended)
4x CD-ROM drive
MacOS 7.5.5 or later
75 MB hard disk space
QuickTime 2.5 or better