{"id":1126,"date":"2010-02-08T19:57:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T00:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2010-02-08T19:57:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T00:57:22","slug":"it-breathes-uru-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/?p=1126","title":{"rendered":"It Breathes "URU" Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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YES.<\/strong><\/center><\/font><\/p>\n

Today, Cyan Worlds announced the return of Uru Live, now called Myst Online: Uru Live Again. It’s like MO:UL was, except that it’s being run by Cyan, and it’s now donationware (meaning totally free, but donations are encouraged).<\/p>\n

You can set up an account and download the installer from the official site<\/a>. The servers are being beaten into a pulp at the moment, but you should get in eventually.<\/p>\n

MO:ULA is currently Windows-only, but initial tests seem to point to it being completely compatible with Crossover on Mac OS, as Uru:CC was. More on that in a later post.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b> Yes indeed, the game runs smoothly in Crossover. Besides the obvious network lag present in all versions of the game, I didn’t encounter any sort of slow-down while playing last night. The one problem is that the audio doesn’t appear to work all the time, ambient noises end up as small buzzing noises and such.<\/p>\n

Setup couldn’t be simpler though. Open the installer file with Crossover Games, and let it do its thing. Even the PhysX install goes smoothly.<\/p>\n

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Update:<\/b> I’m hosting a mirror of the installer files on my server here to help Cyan out a bit.<\/p>\n