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| Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Cyan Worlds |
| Publisher(s) | Cyan Worlds |
| Platform(s) | Macintosh, Microsoft Windows |
| Release | June 21, 1990 |
| Genre(s) | Adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel is a graphic adventurecomputer game for the Macintosh computer line (Plus, SE, SE/30, II Series, Classic, LC) created by Cyan, Inc (now Cyan Worlds). It was published in 1989 and won the 1990 Mac User's Editors' Choice Award for the 'Best Recreational Program' category.[1]
Spelunx, Cyan's next title, was made with a similar style of gameplay. In 2007, a new Cosmic Osmo game titled Cosmic Osmo's: Hex Isle was released, based loosely on the original's setting but with a more traditional platform game style of gameplay.
Game mechanics[edit]
The game features a point and click interface. The player clicks on various elements in a scene to trigger events. To move between scenes and rooms, the player clicks on doors or near the edge of the screen.
The game begins when the player enters an animated spaceship hovering in front of the title screen. While inside the ship, he can trigger various events.
The spaceship gives the player the ability to visit various planets. Aside from using the ship to move between planets, a complicated network of shortcuts exists between planets and scenes. The game, being presented in first person view, enables shifts from the macroscopic to the microscopic level. Most of the shortcuts are found at the microscopic level; through a water drain or a mouse's hole, for example.
Development[edit]
Cosmic Osmo was created by brothers Rand and Robyn Miller, who went on to form the company Cyan and develop the best-selling adventure game Myst.
It was created, and runs, using HyperCard. Animated portions were made using MacroMind VideoWorks, a linear animation program that later became Macromedia Director. A XCMD plug-in enabled VideoWorks animated sprites to be displayed with an alpha mask on top or behind HyperCard's graphic layer.
As it was one of the first CD-ROM games, not every Mac owner had a CD-ROM drive. To remedy this, Cyan also offered a floppy disk version, simply titled Cosmic Osmo, that had fewer planets to explore, fewer animations, and no background music, and required a hard drive for installation. Mark H. DeForest (software engineer and later CTO at Cyan) in December 1995 indicated a colorized version was in development, noting, '..[it] is taking a fair amount of work, but is looking like it will be well worth it.'[2]
A port of the game was reportedly developed for the SNES-CD, a video game console add-on that was never released. Consequently, the game was not released either.
In May 2007, a company called HyperActive Software announced that they had been contracted by Cyan to create a Windows version of the game, to be released via GameTap,[3] which was released on June 19, 2008.[4]
On August 4, 2010 the game became available for purchase through Steam as part of a bundle that also includes the other Cyan Worlds titles The Manhole: Masterpiece Edition, Myst: Masterpiece Edition, realMyst, Riven: The Sequel to Myst, URU: Complete Chronicles, and Spelunx and the Caves of Mr. Seudo.[5] Originally only available for Macintosh computers, Cosmic Osmo Swipey rogue mac os. is now only for Windows PC systems.
Goals and artistic design[edit]
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Cosmic Osmo has a style of gameplay similar to Cyan's previous game, The Manhole. There is no goal, no system of scoring points, and no items for players to keep in inventory. Players can be said to have 'finished' the game if they have explored every area and found every secret, but the game gives no feedback to indicate whether this has happened. Although this is unconventional, it allows finding new secrets to be a genuine surprise, while avoiding the frustration of endlessly searching the game for the last secret to achieve 100% completion.
Although Osmo was advertised as a children's game[citation needed], people of all ages have declared themselves fans. The game has a humorous tone, and popular culture references abound. For example, one object the player can find is an album by a band called 'Swabs N' Roses', a reference to Guns N' Roses.
Music and sound[edit]
The game features digitized voices and sounds that were played by HyperCard's sound commands, and 18 tracks of original CD-DA background music on the Hybrid CD version, much of which was written by Shep Lovick and Robyn Miller and features Kyle Stroud prominently on the saxophone.
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Sequel[edit]
A sequel to Cosmic Osmo called Cosmic Osmo's Hex Isle was released on November 30, 2007.[6] Hex Isle was sold exclusively through a website called Fanista Beta, and works on Windows and Intel Macs. Fanista later went out of business and the game was discontinued.
Cyan Worlds mentioned nothing of the game before its release. The game draws on the universe and style of its predecessor, but is a puzzle-solving platform game instead of a click-through adventure.
References[edit]
- ^Engst, Adam C. 'MacUser's Editors' Choice Awards'. TidBITS. Retrieved 18 October 2012.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^DeForest, Mark H. 'Usenet Message'.
- ^'Cosmic Osmo - Revolution converts'. LiveCode.
- ^'Cosmic Osmo on Gametap'. Archived from the original on 2008-06-22. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
- ^[1]
- ^Cyan Worlds, Inc: 'Cyan Worlds Inc and Fanista announce a new game'
External links[edit]
- Official website
Pro Motion NG is created with software development systems designed to be used on Microsoft Windows systems.
However there is a great project called 'Wine' (https://www.winehq.org/). The authors did an awesome job creating an adapter that allows Windows applications to run on Mac OS and Linux systems.
Before you buy the software please check thoroughly if the application runs to your satisfaction on your specific system! When you have no license key then the Free Edition mode is active. This suites well to check typical app functions and behavior.
We did our best to provide maximum compatibility with Wine. There are few small issues and limitations as described below but they shouldn't hurt.
Although Wine can be installed as a separate application to run different Windows programs we decided to create special packages that include Wine and Pro Motion NG as a single application. So you can download and start the application without any extra installations.
If you have the commercial version of Wine, CrossOver by CodeWeavers for Mac OS or Linux, then you can use the normal Windows installation package and install it there.
| App package for Mac OS 7.2.7, 2020-08-23 Download and uncompress the ZIP archive. Move the app to your application folder or desktop. For the first start of every new version please click with your right mouse button on the app icon and use 'open'. Depending on your security settings you might get a warning because the application was not downloaded from the app store. If you are downloading an update you must replace the current version. The application configuration will be kept. Currently the software does not run under the new Mac OSX Catalina because Pro Motion NG is a 32Bit software and with Catalina Apple abandoned 32Bit support. A 64 Bit version of Pro Motion will be done but is still not available. CrossOver already supports Catalina and you can run Pro Motion NG with that software, but you have to purchase a license. With this you can also run other Windows software on a Mac. |
| Debian package for Linux 7.2.7, 2020-08-23 After download just double click on the file to install it. Tarball package for Linux 7.2.7, 2020-08-23 |
Linux packages
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The Wine wrapper system for Linux was created by Adamhm and is adapted from the Wine wrappers that have been made for a number of GOG games, which can be found here: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/adamhms_linux_wine_wrappers_news_faq_discussion
Mac OS App Package
The Mac OSX App package has been created with WineBottler, a great tool to build ready to use Mac OS app packages based on Windows installation packages.
Limitations and Things to know
Below you will find some known limitations when running Pro Motion NG on Mac OSX or Linux. If you find additional problems then please post them at the forum pages.
There are a lot of Linux flavors around and we can not check the compatibility with all packages and settings. When testing we used Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon and Ubuntu 16/18.
Requirement for 32Bit
At the moment Pro Motion NG is only available as 32Bit application.
As of Ubuntu 19.10 there is currently no official support for 32Bit apps (as of 2019-12-21), although Canonical said they wanted to continue this for certain libraries, see Community process for 32-bit compatibility.
Luckily the 32Bit support (also called multiarch support) can be enabled by using the packages from Ubuntu 19.04. If you do the following commands on Ubuntu 19.10 then you can install and use Pro Motion NG as well as other 32Bit apps:
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/g/glibc/multiarch-support_2.29-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
sudo apt install ./multiarch-support_2.29-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
Default Skin and Dark Skin
Pro Motion NG comes with two skin flavors which display either based on either standard Windows desktop color scheme or an individual Dark Theme.
The default skin uses coloring and button styles as known from Windows XP which is the default desktop mode of Wine. The dark skin can be used, too but is not fully functional. Drop down boxes, menus, system dialogs (file open/save etc.) and the main window title bar are not using the dark skin. If this does not bother you then you can enable the dark skin manually in File/Preferences…<
We hope that this glitch can be fixed soon by the Wine project developers.
Microsoft AVI files
Space, space, space! mac os. The Microsoft video files can not be loaded or saved. Although there is basic support for this within Wine it just does not make sense to use this file type on Mac or Linux.
Help system
Pro Motion NG comes with a Windows help system file (pmotion.chm). It is not reliably handled by Wine, although there are systems where it seems to work. By default all help pages are opened online at the web site, e.g. when you press the F1 key to get context sensitive help for a dialog. You might want to find a CHM file viewer for your system on your own and open the CHM file with it if the online resources are not to your satisfaction.
If you use CrossOver by CodeWeavers then the built in help file works normally.
Pen pressure support
At the moment the pen pressure can not be used. We will try to find a solution for this in the future but at the moment it is not known if this is reliably possible.
Application windows
Typically Pro Motion NG allows you to place the single app windows where you want them to have, even outside of the main window, e.g. on a second display. Due to different effects on Mac OSX and Linux the initial setting is to use embedded windows instead. They can only be placed within the main application window.
If this bothers you please go to File/Preferences section Compatibility and deactivate 'Embed Windows'.
On some Linux systems you may then see a separate task entry for each of the application windows. Unity combines these entries under the task icon, but other systems like Mint Cinnamon will have a separate entry in the task bar.
About box
Weirdly the about box with the built in credits scroller does not show on some Ubuntu systems. Hit the ESC key to close it once you opened it but it's not visible.
Mac OS – Cmd Key
Shortcuts that use the 'Alt' key must be executed with the Cmd key instead. This is how Wine decided to translate this key into the Apple world, for whatever reason. Some research showed that the Ctrl key should better be mapped to Cmd. If you feel the same then please leave a note in the forum space. Maybe we can change the behavior in the app bundle itself. Aside from that you might want to try Karabiner, am Mac OS keyboard customizer.
