"2500 rendered images, 40 minutes of original music, 66 minutes of Quicktime animation, 2 years in the making."
A graphic adventure computer game created by brothers Robyn and Rand Miller under Cyan, Inc., their Spokane, Washington based studio, and published and distributed by Brøderbund. The Millers began working on Myst in 1991 and released it on September 24, 1993. The Windows 3.1 version came out the following spring, in March of 1994.
Myst Postmortem by Robyn Miller
Extended Interview with Rand Miller
Original Myst system requirements
Mac:
Mac LC or faster
System 7.0.1 or higher
4 MB RAM
3 MB free disk space
CD-ROM drive
256 Colors
PC:
386 or 486 Pentium Processor
Windows 3.X or Windows 95
8 MB RAM
4 MB free disk space
CD-ROM drive
SVGA Video
Soundcard
Development
The game was created entirely on Apple Macintosh computers, especially Quadra models. The entire game was essentially a very large, color HyperCard stack, with each card consisting of a three-dimensionally rendered scene.
Graphics and Construction tools
HyperCard (Apple)
Think Pascal (Symantec)
Photoshop (Adobe)
Premier (Adobe)
Illustrator (Adobe)
Painter (Fractal Design)
Morph (Gryphon Software)
Music and Sound tools
MasterTracks Pro 5 (Passport)
Proteus MPS Plus (E-Mu)
Pro Tools Audio Interface (Digidesign)
Sound Designer II (Digidesign)
SoundEdit Pro (MacroMedia)
Additional Tools
Infini-D (Specular International)
De-Babelizer (Equilibrium Technologies)
MovieShop (Apple)
ComboWalker (Apple)
Picture Compressor (Apple)
ConvertToMovie (Apple)
MoviePlayer (Apple)
SoundToMovie (Apple)
QuickTime XCMDs (Apple)
Fontographer (Altsys)
Tilod PICS Import/Export filters (John Knoll)
Images and animations were modeled and rendered on six Macintosh Quadras using StrataVision 3d by Strata, Inc.
HyperCard was colorized using a proprietary version of Symplex System's HyperTint, written by John Miller.
