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Mods reserve the right to remove posts that ignore this request. Please be civil and respectful to your fellow redditors. This is a pretty open subreddit, and as such, there are very few rules as to what can and cannot be submitted. See more pictures at Ando's website here, and see the book in action in the video below.This is the subreddit for discussion and appreciation of everything Myst, Riven, Exile, Revelation, End of Ages, Uru, and more! Rules All rights reserved.)Īnd for the finishing touches? The leather cover has been fully restored and repaired, and the title was stamped with custom dyes and then filled in with 24-carat gold.Īndo has listed the book for sale at $15,625 and, given the work and detail he's put into it, we think it would be worth every single penny. Especially considering that Ando has no formal electronics training whatsoever. Also, when you first turn on the book, a video automatically plays, featuring Atrus writing at his desk, then he looks up at you and mouths the words "who the devil are you?" Bonuses are a copy of the Book of Atrus ebook, plus shortcut copies of some extracted Myst Island flyby videos/linking panel images.
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Included software is Myst Masterpiece Edition, realMyst, Riven DVD edition, Riven Elementary, Myst III: Exile DVD edition, Myst IV: Revelation, Uru: Ages Beyond Myst and The Path of the Shell, Myst V: End of Ages, The Manhole Masterpiece Edition and Crowthistle. The operating system (Windows XP) and all software is loaded directly from a 32GB CompactFlash card that reads at 22MB/second The only way to deal with heat in this book is to just avoid creating it in the first place, so all the components are ultra-low power The CPU and GPU hover at 48 degrees Celsius. The system is entirely passively cooled, and waste heat conducts out through the book. The system has 1GB of RAM (less RAM equals less power consumption and heat) The CPU is an Intel Z530P, running at 1.6GHz and the GPU is an Intel GMA500 chipset, capable of running DirectX 9.0C graphics. Power consumption is around 12 watts and the battery life is around 1.5 to 2 hours The power supply converts its voltage to the 12V and 5V required by the computer. The power supply is a 3-cell lithium-ion battery capable of outputting 60A of current (but the book uses nowhere near that much). There's a matching 4-wire resistive glass touchscreen overlaid on top as the main input method, which updates at 160 samples/second, with a touch resolution of 2048x2048 This provides 1:1 native pixel mapping on the original versions of Myst, Riven and Exile. The screen is a 640x480 5.0-inch LED-backlit display.
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And filled it with a full desktop computer, hand-assembled with the smallest components Ando could find, in order to fit the computer into the restricted space: At this point, lovers of antiquarian books should probably close this tab and go read about kittens.
Nowadays, you'd probably be able to shove an iPod Touch or something in there, but Ando wanted to do it properly.įirst of all, he found the book Cyan used as a model for the original linking book - a 135-year-old antique Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume LIV, Issue 312, December 1876 to May 1877. Six years ago, Brisbane, Queensland, hobbyist Mike Ando, aka RIUM+, set about making a real-life linking book from Cyan's point-and-click adventure game Myst - one that would actually be able to play the games. Not only is this real-life Myst linking book gorgeous, it also operates as a fully functional console for playing the Myst games.
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