How Myst Almost Couldn't Run on CD-ROM | War Stories | Ars Technica

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Cyan Worlds co-founder Rand Miller goes behind the scenes of the development of one of the best selling PC games of all time, Myst. The HyperCard-developed title ran into some snags when trying to run on the CD-ROM format. "I had a really powerful Mac, with a lot of memory and a lot of hard drive space, and we were still working in mud," said Rand, discussing the game's performance early-on. Rand and his brother, Robyn, compressed the image and audio data as much as they could so the game could run smoothly on 1x CD-ROM drives.

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Myst Statistics For Ars Technica

At present, Ars Technica has 1,761,924 views spread across 2 videos for Myst, with the game making up 2 hours of published video on his channel. This makes up 2.25% of Myst content that Ars Technica has uploaded to YouTube.