This is an UNOFFICIAL patch for “The 7th Guest”. I am not an employee of Virgin Games nor do they have any idea that I have created this patch. This application has not been tested extensively and may have bugs or cause problems with “The 7th Guest”. However, given that “The 7th Guest” already has serious problems with Power Macintoshes, and given that I haven’t experienced any problems myself while playing a patched version of the game on my Power Macintosh, I don’t believe there is any serious risk with using this software.
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What it does
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This application fixes a Power Macintosh incompatibility with Virgin Game’s “The 7th Guest”. This fixes a random crashing problem which occurs while playing the game on Power Macintosh computers (ie - PowerMac 6100, 7100, or 8100). This crash is caused by a bug in the part of the game’s code which controls the mouse/cursor in the game and that bug is fixed by this patch.
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How to use it
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You must have already installed “The 7th Guest” on your Macintosh before you can use this application to patch your game. This application can only patch the copy of “The 7th Guest” which is installed on your hard drive -- it can not patch the copy on the CD-ROM (CD-ROM’s can’t be modified).
Before using this application, make sure that any virus protection software that you are running is turned off. This application modifies the code in your 7th Guest application and therefore could be mistaken for a virus by some detection software.
To patch your game, do the following:
Open the patcher application (it is named “7th Guest PPC Patch”). You will see a standard “open file” dialog when the application starts up.
Find your copy of “T7GMac” on your hard disk and select it. “T7GMac” is the application that you open when you want to play “The 7th Guest”. If you have renamed this application, select the renamed copy.
Click the “Open” button. If you double-clicked “T7GMac” when you selected it, you won’t need to do this step.
That’s it! Assuming that everything went OK, you should see an alert informing you that the patch was successful.
If you ever re-install “The 7th Guest”, you will also need to re-apply this patch.