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SCI Syntax Help / Re: Freddy Pharkas (Mac) easter egg
« on: March 29, 2017, 10:26:26 PM »"I'm the golden ball"? wtf?Sorry for bumping such a long-dead topic but, I finally figured out why the easter egg froze where it did. Even though a patch utility was released for a few Mac games to fix various timing issues, it apparently does nothing for Freddy Pharkas. I happened to search for some stuff on "comp.sys.mac.games" and found this post from 3/28/94:
There's a message in 270.msg right after the others that says "oh, sorry... I see you already have one" that would fit nicely at the end of that sequence. Looks like it got cut off?
"I have a MacIIci that was stalling whenever I tried to take the key out of
the church door. I called Sierra Online Technical Support and they had me
set the date back to 1993 on the system clock and I have not had any
problem since. Actually, the game has not crashed since I set the clock
back."
By setting the system clock back to 1993, not only does the Church Key not freeze/crash the game, the easter egg now plays in it's entirety: